matt8268
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| How to copy cassette to CD I have accomplished this by recording through standard 1/8" mini-stereo plug into computer's sound card (line input) and using shareware (free) recording software Goldwave, available at goldwave.com. Just take the RCA's from your tapedeck or recei... | |
| Integrate 2-channel or go all 5 channel Well I don't have the experience of these other guys, but I'm in your same boat (except without the sub). Most audiophiles it seems will push the 2 channel system above all else, and I'm sort of leaning that way. A great point someone on here made... | |
| "Sale pending"--why post it ? Only a fool would put sale pending on an item with no sale pending. It discourages good people (like me) from offering to purchase it. | |
| Top 10 Must-have Classical CD's I'm not into classical, but my friend just turned me on to the disc Aaron Copland, The Populist. It is very well recorded, and I liked the music also. | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction We're dealing with humans here, and I believe the actual truth of this debate is lost among the BS. Perhaps there is a small sound difference between components before and after they've "burned in". But it is no doubt overshadowed by the human lis... | |
| music , mind , thought and emotion To me the music/emotion link is a great question that has no answer (yet). I do know that music can follow heartrate, so that if you're feeling amped you want to listen to music with a faster beat. But I still have not figured out how music can ta... | |
| A Little Hypocrisy? I think it's because you're paying the music industry machine, not the artist. As noted above, a CD is worth pennies, it's the intellectual property on it that is valuable. When you pay a band for their music, you feel good, because you are giving... | |
| Burning a CD I think Avideo may have hit it on the head. I would recommend doing a test burn of the same CD at 1x speed and see if you experience the same problems. | |
| Amps, preamps, and home theater Soix, I like your idea a lot. Let me ask this: does it need to be an amp and preamp, or would a good integrated amp do the trick? If so, is there a good 3-channel integrated amp with the HT passthrough feature you describe. Or even 2 channel, and ... | |
| HDTV picture quality question... A quick check with your satellite provider may be able to confirm whether or not it's the source. I know on my DirecTV certain channels definitely look better than others, and within that, look better or worse at different times of day (prime time... | |
| New dvd players without the chroma bug? This link explains the bug:http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_8_2/dvd-benchmark-special-report-chroma-bug-4-2001.html | |
| Best home theater receiver for 500 I have a Denon 70Wx5 receiver, and really like it. I'm using it to drive a home theater with Joseph Audio for my mains and center. These speakers deserve to be driven by much higher end power, but the Denon really holds its own. Another nice featu... | |
| Audible differences between speaker cables? I will wax philosophic here and offer that cables do make a difference (as does everything in a stereo system), but not nearly as much as many people claim. I have no data to back that up, but do keep in mind the evaluators, humans, are the same s... | |
| Copying DVDs? Not sure what those spammers have in mind, since I try my hardest to ignore them. There are two formats I know of, VCD and SVCD, which will store video on a CD which can be played back on certain DVD players. VCD format can store 74 minutes or so ... | |
| Favorite HT demo scene from a movie? I have to second the Star Wars Phantom Menace pod racing scene. I've never heard such good sound come out of my 5.1 system. It seems to my ears they engineered that DVD so you can turn it up loud. |