kijanki

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Your opinions on how to string 25 ft speaker cables
Twisted !!! Twisting reduces inductance of the cable and shields the cable from external electric and electromagnetic interference (preventing induced noise entry back to the amp). It is because both wires are exposed evenly to external fields. Tw... 
ROI. Where is money better spent?
tls49 +1I spent more on the cables since they are a non-perishable item. 
To Bi-Wire or use Jumpers?
Hard to say.  Some speakers respond well to biwiring while with others it is better to spend more money on single cable.  I use both since my woofers, midrange and tweeter are all separate.  I use shotgun cable and AQ jumpers between midrange and ... 
Warm-up time for amps and preamps
Properly designed electronics doesn't have components under a lot of stress.  There is a lot of industrial and commercial electronics that stays on for decades including home phones, elevator controllers, phone switchboards, cellphone towers etc. ... 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
As I explained earlier - spilled light would appear as mostly red but it shows as white (no red at all), because all camera sensors can see infrared and filters are not able to filter it completely. If you cannot understand it I cannot help it. Al... 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
As I said you can see for yourself with a red laser poster how much is reflected off the black tray.nalso, of the black matte tray was actually 100% effective the green pen wouldn’t make any difference.It doesn't, according to many.  You are tryin... 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
Geoffkait, pure matte black has 100% absorption of all colors. Other colors are used only to reflect only one color. Targets for infrared, for counting number of pulses in rotational speed measurements, are usually gold/matte black (including one ... 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
Black absorbs all wavelengths. Special infrared sinking paints, used by military, are all black matte. Cheap version, often used, is Krylon 1602. You can easily test it with infrared led (remote control etc) and cellphone (since they show infrared... 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
Even infrared is absorbed best by the black paint. 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
geoffkait, black would still absorb red light better than green.  Green makes sense if you want to absorb red light ONLY. 
What's the deal with coloring CD's and/or tray mechanism
If edge supposed to reflect infrared then it should be gold marker, but if it supposed to kill reflections it should be black.  Green doesn't make sense. 
Apple AirPort Extreme & the Apple Airport Express Firmware Upgrades are Available
Done (AE), Thank you hgeifman. 
Best DIY silver solder?
I crimped and then soldered heating wire first to avoid thermal expansion of the connector.  That way it keeps direct oxygen free connection and it is strong.  I used WBT solder but it might not make much difference since the solder is only 4% sil... 
What transport should I get?
RAID 2 is stripping - not very secure and not the backup at all. You need separate HD for plain backup. I use two - second at my work in the case of fire theft etc. I feel that it is more secure than CDs (that can be stolen, lost in fire etc.)I do... 
Cd Ripping - is it better to use inbuilt CD drive of laptop or use an external Cd drive
Get good program like EAC.  I use (free) XLD on the Mac.  Program can go to given sector multiple times until you'll get proper checksum (I set my XLD to 200 attempts max).  You are extracting data.  What is stored on your HD is data and not the m...