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| Speaker Stands Filled With Kitty Litter? TRUE??? Sheeeeeit, if you have a cat, I'd recommend you use the damn cat to stuff the stands! What about Jellie Bellies™?! Then if you get the munchies after a long listening session you can pop open the stand and chow down. DO NOT, under ANY circumstance... | |
| Looking for Cello and Guitar I may be grabbin' at straws here...you didn't mention vocals, or what genre of music you were looking for. There are a few Damien Rice songs that feature acoustic guitar and cello, but they do have vocals. Bella Fleck has done some interesting com... | |
| Any good Contemporary Christian recordings Drubin - well, yes, I guess it is that the content of much of her lyrics contain so many Christian references, and spiritual overtones that I assume that it is part of the message she wants to bring to her music. As far as her own personal beliefs... | |
| Any good Contemporary Christian recordings Anything by Gillian Welch.Ditto the The Innocence Mission.Mindy Smith, One Moment More (not quite as saturated with Christian lyrics as the above).The Blind Boys of Alabama (the new one with Ben Harper is great)!Bob Dylan had a Chritian phase with... | |
| How Long Did it Take to Burn In a new piece? Four years - Wife. Getting better and better with each passing year! She got pretty pissed when I tried to hook her up to the fridge to make the process go faster though! Marco | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? An even less expensive option, if you are running a Mac, is to use an AirportExpress module (about $120) which has an optical output that streams raw data and bypasses the DAC (you'll need a toslink cable). You can stream your music from your comp... | |
| Tube Biasing: do I have to? Find out the bias #'s that your manufacturer intended for your tubes and if your unit does not autobias then ask the vendor like THE TUBE STORE to bias them for those specs.HUH?!?! Maybe I'm missing something in what you are suggesting, but how ca... | |
| Tube Biasing: do I have to? Bias procedures will vary from amp to amp. You guys would do well to list your specific amp including the model, and or do a search (here, google, and AA) using the amp's name and "bias procedure" (or something of that nature). As already indicate... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Pardales - There are also the two USB DAC's offered by Wavelength, The Cosecant and The Brick, as well as the Grace M902. Of those, the Apogee is certainly the least expensive. I'm pretty sure there are a few others as well.Marco | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Some good friends just introduced me to the music of Jeffrey Foucault. His two albums, Stripping Cane and Miles from the Lightening, cut right to the top of my frequent rotation list. From Wisconsin, mostly acoustic guitar and great songwriting, a... | |
| If Audio bug never hit you, what hobby might have? I'd be all over the Hummel figures and Hello Kitty stuff (mostly the backpacks and t-shirts). Marco | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Thank you Ghunter. Both excellent links. The first one did help me understand it better and is well-written...the Benchmark data was a bit more 'academic content-rich' and I need to read it again with more time. I guess I've got the basics down, b... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Ah, thank you Ghunter. That explains the extra time it takes. So it's essentially double-checking that the data read on the first scan was correct, and if not, I assume it does a third and possibly a fourth till it gets some consistancy? Other tha... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Hey Ghunter - I have a question for you about the i-Tunes settings: Can you explain further the "Use Error Correction" setting. I've had it checked, but always wondered just exactly what it was doing. I was under the impression that it only kicked... | |
| Music from hard drive better than CD? Thanks for the clarification Nick. I'm not familiar with the Digitech unit. It's too bad it doesn't work for you as PC audio can be oh so convenient (having your entire collection at your fingertips to mix and match as you please). If I were you I... |