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| Your Favorite Music Fron N'Awlins? John Gros - Papa Grows FunkSteve Masakowski (7 string jazz guitar - incredible player)MarsAll the aboveI live in Metairie, a Western suburb of New Orleans that escaped most flood damage. It will take awhile for the music scene here to recover. Man... | |
| Do you need a special soldering iron? Biggest danger to circuit boards is too much heat. You want an iron 20-30 watts with a small tip. Be sure it's well tinned and you're using rosin core (not acid core) solder. 60/40 lead tin mix is what you want.Second biggest danger is making cold... | |
| phase inverted preamps...about I assume you're talking about switching the plus/minus connections at one end of the speaker cable to compensate for the polarity inversion. I can't see it making much difference which end (amp or speaker) you do the swap. Six of one, half a dozen... | |
| Robert Moog Farewell to a true pioneer and major contributor to prog rock and jazz fusion. I've owned a MiniMoog myself, and nothing else had the big fat sound you got from the 3 voltage controllled oscillators overdriving a 4 pole voltage controlled resonant... | |
| tape in deck when off???? Depends on the deck. Better decks disengage the pinch rollers when powered down. I can't see much harm in leaving the tape in for such a deck. Leaving the tape in a deck that doesn't disenage the pinch roller can cause the roller to deform from th... | |
| Why Linear Tracking never took off? I just stumbled on this thread. I guess I need to pull out my PS X 800 table and try it out again after all these years. If I recall correctly the "Biotracer" technology included active resonance supression in addition to servo tracking of the arm... | |
| Inaccurate computer CD reading? Redbook CDs use Error Correcting Codes (ECC) also. The Redbook standard assumes that no CD will be a perfect pressing, so there is a lot of redundancy built into the data. BTW, one bit could make a big difference if it happened to to be the most s... | |
| Must XLR pin configurations match? If you use a standard cable you'll flip the polarity of the system. This may or may not be a problem - many people can't hear differences in polarity. Also many recordings have inverted polarity anyway, the extra flip provided by your gear actuall... | |
| HDCD question..... As long as the HDCD enabled DAC receives an exact copy of the datastream on the disk it will recognize and decode an HDCD encoded datastream. Some transports (Wadia 270 for example) apply dither to the data from the disk to generate a new datastre... | |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda Great stuff!Try John McLaughlin, My Goals Beyond. In particular cuts Peace 1 and Peace 2 | |
| How do you know you can use a custom filter switch The (slight) risk is that the increased ultrasonic energy might adversly affect the amp or more importantly the tweeter. With the Maggies and the Adcoms this shouldn't be an issue. I don't think you'll have any problem.BTW I use a Sony SCD-1 into ... | |
| Unintended lyrics How about the chanting at the ending of the Beatle's "I Am the Walrus"? I know the Beatles claim they're chanting "rasberry jam" or some such, but when I listen to it on a high resolution system it sounds like they're chanting "Get f***ed, Get f**... | |
| Worst remote nomination... The ultimate Worst Remote is the one that controls the Wadia 7 transport and Wadia 9 DAC. It is a heavy metal affair about 6x4x1 inches. Don't drop it on your toe!The roughly 20 buttons are decent sized but arranged in a rectangular grid. All are ... | |
| Any heard/heard of Whest DAP.10 R processor? I tried the replacement that AA sent me this weekend. It worked fine when I hooked it up, and I listened to a couple of CD cuts I know well on my cold system.I let the system including the DAP warm up for an hour, then I returned to listen again. ... | |
| Speaker wire polarity on a powered subwoofer Polarity of the sub vs main speakers is important. The output of the sub and the speakers will overlap over a portion of the bass spectrum, and relative polarity of the subs and mains affects the mix. If they are in phase then the outputs add toge... |