markphd
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| The most missed obvious tweak of all I have to have this done every couple of years myself. Some people are more prone to wax build up. It does make a significant difference. If you are prone to this, do it regularly at relatively short intervals, every year for example. If you wait ... | |
| Another article re CD sales John Lennon once commented that he preferred collecting singles over albums. He found albums a bit boring.If you don't have a lot of money, singles are a more efficient way to buy wnat you want without having to take what you don't want. When I wa... | |
| Regardless of how much you've spent... It's been well over thirty years since I bought my first component. I enjoy reading about things out of interest, particularly technological and industry developments, but I don't obsess anymore about upgrades or equipment. For me, reading about m... | |
| How do you pay? Why? If you're in the U.S., the law requires clearance wtihin a couple of days. The bank, however, may not clear the money in your account for you for a couple of weeks. So the bank has the money before they give it to you. They then have an interest f... | |
| Why over-sampling and filtering... and why not? An anti-aliasing filter is used during recording of the CD so that the inaudible higher frequencies don't run into the 44.1 kHz digital sampling signal. Often 20kHz was chosen as the filter cut-off. It was called a "brick wall" because everything ... | |
| Biggest Baddest Spikes Vs Gorgeous Speakers Depending on your desk, room, speaker placement issues, etc. etc., have you considered a wall mount? | |
| Besides bare wire what is the a good conductor? Do you mean "connector" rather than "conductor"? (Actually you don't even have to use metal as a wire. Van den Hul make interconnects made of carbon)If you like WBT (I use their locking bananas myself), you can buy angled bananas and spades by Fur... | |
| Tweaks with overpowering resuults. I think that room treatments generally, of which bass traps are just one element, to be the most significant thing you can do to your system. I hesitate to call them "tweaks" though. I think of room acoustics are an essential component of your sys... | |
| if Sony had been around earlier - format wars I have great admiration for Sony for pushing the technology envelope at the mass market level.Isn't that what the high-end companies are doing in a different market segment, the segment that we are a part of and subscribe to? In that sense, critic... | |
| anyone mention tull? Jethro Tull have been my favourite group since I first heard their music back in '69. I haven't changed my mind since. They're almost at their 40th anniversary and they're still going strong, playing about 100 gigs a year.Like all Tull fans, I'm r... | |
| Boiling the hyperbole No, I don't think the hyperbole has ended. Sometimes components are so similar that it is very dificult to distinguish them without a certain amount of verbosity. Ironically, this may often exaggerate the differences between the components.There's... | |
| HDMI vs. Component Cable If your cable box is older with only a DVI output and your TV has an HDMI input, you do one of two things. First, you can get a cable with a DVI connector at one end and an HDMI connector at the other end. Second, you can buy a DVI to HDMI adaptor... | |
| Is the e-mail sounds like a 'SCAM' ? I think that all of the questions are reasonable. The very poor spelling and grammar concerns me a bit because this is typical of scam ads from foreign countries. I have come across this type of thing myself in response to somthing I was selling. ... | |
| REVIEW: Mccormack UDP-1 Deluxe Good review. Thanks for the information. Given your musical preferences and the type of sound you prefer, what disc players do you recommend? | |
| Help with isolation for Linn LP12 on wood floor I used to have a Target wall shelf for my Linn. I found that it was better than floor mounting in order to avoid footstep vibrations. However, it depended on the wall. I found exterior walls to be better than interior, partition walls. With some w... |