herman
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| Itunes ? .A clone is a bit for bit copy including all hidden files. If you want to make a bootable disk that includes the operating system you have to clone since a backup copy won't grab everything you need to make that work.If it's just data files then a... | |
| Speaker suggestions at around $30k .Matti, why buy anything new? You can buy just about anything but food on the used market. Cars, boats, clothes, toys, furniture, appliances, and on and on are all readily available used at a fraction of new. Just curious, do you usually buy most ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Minor I would have to disagree with "it is only too late if it fails" when it comes to audio. The statement may be true with power supplies for some equipment, but since they typically affect the sound of an amp long before they fail they have to... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Cathode, I don't feel it is being negative to correct a mistake. Electronics is a branch of physics. It is science. We use specific terms with specific meanings to avoid confusion. Why anyone would insist otherwise baffles me.For example, your us... | |
| Speaker suggestions at around $30k .On the preamp, this guy can build the best http://www.jeffreywjackson.com/On the speaker, I don't understand why anyone would pick a speaker to match an amplifier. The speaker is the most colored component. First you find a speaker you like and o... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Rieff, we are systematically replacing all of the motherboards and video cards from the affected period.Minor, so you mean physical leakage like stuff oozing out of them. The problem is they are performing below spec well before they start oozing... | |
| Itunes ? 'to get it all on the external drive first go to advanced preferences and make the external drive your iTunes media folder, if you click change you can browse to it.then go to File - library - organize library and then choose consolidate. It will ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .No problem Ralph. I think it is a disservice to those who are trying to learn something here but If you are comfortable muddying the water with incorrect information then that is your choice. As one of the senior "experts" around here who comes f... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .actually, a phono stage could use RCAs as balanced inputs if they float the ground. That assumes that it's not grounded at the turntable but I think that would be unusual.. | |
| Itunes ? .Get Super Duper for backupshttp://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.htmlI have an idea, I'll email you.. | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .The highly respected Aetshetix IO converts balanced to single ended at the input and then back to balanced after the equalization. I don't recall if it just grounds one leg or does some other conversion like a diff amp to SE but it is not balance... | |
| Itunes ? .Ouch, I think you may have a problem. If you dragged and dropped I'm pretty sure you just created an alias, what is called a shortcut in the world of Windows. It didn't actually copy the files, it just created a pointer that says where the origin... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Minor, sounds like you are a very thorough tech.Question: you say you check the caps for leakage and replace only as needed. What about a loss of capacitance and/or increased ESR? The amp may function with these problems but well below it's poten... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? .In the link you provided in the original post you listPolk Monitor Jr 5B&W DM 605 s2Sony cd playerPC sound cardwhich is what I based my comment onIn any case, if it were me I would try some adapters you can get from a music store for around $... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Ralph,Again, I'm dumbfounded you continue to defend what is clearly wrong.I've been dealing with electronics for over 30 years, taught it for 10, and have looked at this topic quite a bit since it often comes up on this and other forums. I've nev... |