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| Ugliest Speakers??? Thank you Pcking for that link.My wife likes the Perfect8 Forces!God, I love that girl. | |
| Tannoy Speakers While Tannoy is the topic, I picked up a pair of Venus MkII's that I haven't played around with yet. Do these have any potential? | |
| whats wrong with ebay? A very experienced e-bay told me once that having a couple of negatives from jerks shows that you are not a pushover.Wear it proud and move on. | |
| HD Radio...anyone heard any in home tuners? Armstrod, thanks for that information.If that's the case, then higher possible bitrate is another reason to leave HD radio in the car, as unclejeff recommends in his post.I am a big fan of Internet radio but I think that the best way to hookup is ... | |
| HD Radio...anyone heard any in home tuners? The Boston station (WGHB) I listen to via a FIOS Internet and wireless SqueezeBox II announces that "you are listening in HD." That is, at least in this case, the HD feed and the Internet feed are the same. I suppose the bit rates could differ. In... | |
| "Glue Cleaning" Your LP's A process of this type was patented in 1980 by Muller; Maximilian E.US Patent 4,199,375He uses polyvinyl alcohol. (which is "Used with polyvinyl acetate to make Elmer's glue" From Wikipedia.) | |
| Beatles Music "Flew in from Miami, BOAC"Any suggestion on a decent White Album? | |
| joy killing refridgerator "We" got a new dishwasher that is not only much quieter (like 20db), but has a 4 hour delay feature.As an added benefit, the household goodwill generated by the new DW allowed my recent audio purchase to pass without comment. | |
| Audiophile TT article in Forbes Schipo, sorry about the disingenuous thing.I missed the reference. I agree about keeping politics out.Ken | |
| Audiophile TT article in Forbes If it was installed in his place of business it might fly. If it is installed in his living room, not so clear. One good way to get audited is to brag about such things in the media.The government has some appreciation for a fine turn table. Didn'... | |
| Buying Someone's Records: An Ethics Question Don't offer him anything. He offered the deal to you.Ask HIM how much HE wants. Then you can both be satisfied if you can live with his price or you can make a counter-offer. Tradesmen make deals all day long and they must be pretty cagey to survive. | |
| Have you used a frequency/tone CD w/SPL meter ... Eldartford, Would you please tell us some more about using the spectrum analyser? What other equipment is required, microphones, sources etc.Any suggested reading? Thanks, Ken | |
| Have you used a frequency/tone CD w/SPL meter ... I tested my system and room from 10-300hz by 1hz increments from my listening position and was startled by the results.Response varied by 15-20db in very narrow ranges (+-10HZ). Just by moving my head 1-2 feet there were huge differences. Nulls al... | |
| Inventory of vinyl - what software do you use? I haven't tried this but it might be what you are looking for. Gracenote has a bunch of audio type programs.http://www.gracenote.com/partners/software/players.html?OS=win&pl_version=&langs=&payment=&type=all&player=AVCataloger | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Sdatch, I have found this book very useful.Principles of Digital Audio, fifth edition by Ken C. Pohlmann. McGraw-Hill.I got it from the library. (It is $60 at Amazon.) It covers not only CD, but DVD, DVD-A, SACD, MP3 and a lot more. There is a goo... |