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Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts
Phish new years eve 2000. 7 1/2 straight hours of sonic bliss throughout the night in the Florida Everglades. 
Live classic 70s Southern ROck......
Ha Ha Ha.I was just in a little bar in the "deep south" last week. The Allmans came on and people cheered. They love their Allman Brothers.Jax2, don't forget the hog nuts!Phasecorrect, If you want to get current maybe you could check out Widesprea... 
Cartridge selection
Would anyone care to comment on the effectiveness of using a .48mv cartridge with a phono preamp with 54db of gain and a linestage with 13db of gain?Will this be enough gain? 
Need a list of TT with arms and motors seperate
I'm not talking about friction (which a magnetic bearing would have anyway. If it didn't, the platter would spin forever). I'm just talking about vibrations on one side of the magnetic bearing being transmitted to the other side. Just because ther... 
Bad experience with ZYX AIRY 3
Subtract the effective mass of your arm from 18 or so.Doug, what if the effective mas of the arm is 25-35 grams? Is this too much for a ZYX? My arm is an ET2 with 25-35 grams horizontal and 7 grams vertical effective masses. I'm thinking about a B... 
Need a list of TT with arms and motors seperate
Is a magnetic bearing really vibration free (or silent)? Think about holding two strong magnets close to eachother so they are repelling. Move one slightly and the other one will move. The same will happen in a bearing. Two repelling magnets are n... 
Cartridge selection
Nsgarch,Thanks for your thoughts. There is no Foreplay phono preamp, I goofed. It is a Seduction. I originally built the Seduction to use as a tape head pre but changed my mind at the last minute when I bought the Delphi, so maybe I will just go b... 
High Speed Ripping Laboratory for EAC
it doesn't really take that long to EAC a cd. what speeds have you seen while extracting? some drives are faster than others. If you don't get any good drive recommendations here, you might want to visit a computer forum ask what drives excel with... 
VPI Scout or MDF refinish How to finish MDF
Piano black is nothing more than really nice black paint. To get it to look nice you need to first get the surface smooth. Then you need to apply primer and wet sand. Repeat that last step many times until you have a perfecty smooth surface (the p... 
cable upgrades , real or rip off
Jrw40,If you try them just watch out! You may remove the cable from its packaging, install it, and think "Damn, that's a good looking cable! It looks so cool in my system!" Subconsciously you will want to hear a difference for the better so you ca... 
S/PDIF Input Software to trap WAV files
It's Anastasio :)Have you downloaded any of Ernest's live shows? Much better than that studio stuff, and free to boot! 
S/PDIF Input Software to trap WAV files
What problem (black magic?) are you actually having doing it from the cd rom drive in your computer? Have you ever tried EAC? It does everything I have ever asked it to do regarding digital audio extraction. 
CD-R burnout
The blank discs are not cheap, and most consumer stores do not carry them, but they can be found online and from several pro-audio supply houses.Taiyo Yuden discs can be found in many stores. As long as the spindle says made in Japan you've found ... 
buying new/used vinyl in NYC?
This sure sounds familiar, as I asked it before.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1138840218&openfrom&1&4#1I thought academy (on 10th street between 3rd and 4th avenues) had some pretty beat, worn vinyl, but a lot of va... 
Reel to reel deck -Talk me in or out of buying
The word is that they're trying to release some of the early analog Reference Recordings along with whatever else they have planned.