mapman
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| How is your power bill? I think that the balanced interconnect between liberals and conservatives needs some repair "Yes, sad isn't it?My preferred strategy is to stay a moderate and try to stay well informed. If/when the pendulum swings to far one way, then I usually vo... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? I suspect the problem has something to do with how the ripping software is configured to handle errors when they occur.Different optical drives will have different error rates for sure, some better than others requiring less re-scan. Software has ... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? Can you read non-music CDs OK without problem using your computer cd drive? If so, your music CDs should be fine as well. All it has to do to rip to disk is extract data correctly. There is no sound production involved at this point (that comes la... | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? Horseface,I believe the software used to rip makes a big difference in rip time and efective error handling as well. At first I used Exact Audio copy and FLAC. IT was complicated, problematic and fairly slow. I quickly dropped it and now use Windo... | |
| The gift of music to our children Audiophile style "Now I'm plotting how to create the world's first Todd Rundgren/Lindsey Buckingham obsessed 3 year old."Go the proven Billy Ray Cyrus route.Get them a show on Disney Channel as wisecracking parents of Selena Gomez, Demi Lovado, Miley Cyrus and oth... | |
| How is your power bill? "First, there will be a Ohm "Speaker of the House", in honor of Mapman"Very thoughtful, but please, take care of ManBearPig first! | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll Gotta love Lemmy! | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? The Pioneer drive in my Toshiba Satellite Laptop seems to do an excellent job.I think the main thing is that the drive be designed to rescan segments on lower quality or physically marred disks. The Pioneer normally rips a 3:00 cut to Windows loss... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? Hmm. Not sure if there is vinyl for this title. It was released back in the 90's during the great vinyl depression.I was referring to the standard issue CD.I wouldn't worry too much about vinyl for this one. The CD can be had for not much and is a... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot "Omni's will also work if you can pull them far enough out into the room so that rear wall reflections do not have any deleterious imaging effects."Good point. This is key! Blue Circle Pennies are supposedly designed to go closer to walls. OHM Wal... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot "In general achieving a wide sweet spot I find comes at the price of imaging and detail"Hmm, I'm not sure that is necessarily the case.I do agree about planar designs though, Maggies for example. The sweet spot is very small.Better omnis I've hear... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? Whoops, Audiofeil is right. I got my Moons confused. | |
| Advice on speakers? There was a pair of OHM Walsh 5 series 3 speakers ($6000 new) advertised recently here for $3200. Assuming that deal is all kosher as advertised, you could hardly do better at most any price than those IMHO. An amp change/upgrade would probably be... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot Any OHM Walsh speaker (largely omnidirectional).Also Gallo Ref. 3s.Blue Circle Pennies also. These are designed to go closer to walls.Also some Dueval, Morrisons and a few other lower priced omnis. | |
| The gift of music to our children Audiophile style Weiser,Congrats on your son's choice of study!We think alike (I think).My kids are younger. Both like music, my 13 year old boy classic Rock and my younger girl Hannah Montana, Beatles, and Abba. I showed here how to play "Honey Honey" by Abba on ... |