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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. 
Reel to reel deck -Talk me in or out of buying
I say go for it, too.I bought my first reel to reel deck, an Akai GX4000d, in a thrift store about a year ago for 10 bucks. Several months later I found a virtually unused Revox A77 in another thrift store for $15.00. Ever since that I've been buy... 
Best software for ripping cd's to FLAC?
If you can't figure out or just don't feel like setting up EAC to rip to flac you can just use flac. Then you will just have to rip to wav with EAC then drag and drop the wavs to flac, select encode, and you're done. 
Best software for ripping cd's to FLAC?
EAC is what you want. 
Shanling Cd player in tv commercial
There's also a Burger King commercial out now that shows this cheesed out guy dropping the stylus on what looks like a Rega turntable, but I could be wrong as they show it pretty briefly.