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| How do I clean CDs with isopropyl alcohol? Hello:Optrix sounds like a high purity isopropyl alcohol with added non-ionic optically active surfacants.Anybody know the %isopropyl alcohol that Optrix contains?Also, anybody experienced crazing / brittleness with long-term use of Optrix? Anybod... | |
| High quality digital recording Alesis MasterLink 9600 (very positive review by Michael Fremer in Stereophile). | |
| How do I clean CDs with isopropyl alcohol? It sounds like soap and water is a much more benign way of cleaning CDs than isopropyl alcohol, but unfortunately the isopropyl alcohol sounds much, much more transparent than soap and water (it sounds very similar to Optrix, but without the enhan... | |
| Suggestions for laptop USB 2.0 adaptor? Hi Rives:1x in normal (i.e. non-Audio Quality Master Mode)? If so, is this what you use for mastering CDs or for making CD compilations from hard drive based WAV files?Any impressions of the differences between this and 4X in Audio Master mode?Any... | |
| How can I safely remove Optrix from my CDs? I posted the same question at Audioasylum.com, and the general consensus is that the clouding is due residual Optrix on the read side of the CD (apparently, the Optrix instructions say to wipe that surface dry).Has anybody tried to reapply Optrix ... | |
| How can I safely remove Optrix from my CDs? My impression is that my clouded CDs are simply ones where I didn't completely wipe the Optrix off of the read side.The cloudiness looks just like the Optrix I spray on the label side but don't wipe off.P. S. - I have some Mapleshade Mikro-Smooth ... | |
| Best stands for Proac Response 2 I used to use sand-filled Target R2 stands with my ProAc Response 2 speakers (attached with pea-sized bits of Blu-Tak, which should be equivalent to poster putty at any office supply store).They were very expensive (MSRP $700), and I suspect that ... | |
| Sound of digital jitter and error correction? Someone over at Audioasylum.com just posted this link:http://www.jitter.de/english/engc_navfr.htmlFrom that article:- improved ease of listening - increased clarity - improved high frequency response - better instrument separation - more informati... | |
| Sound quality of the Chuck Berry "Anthology" CDs? Hi Craig:It looks like both CDs were mastered by Eric Labson at the same location, so the two discs probably sound pretty similar.My CD sounds very clean (it almost sounds like than removed some tape hiss, but unfortunately, may have also subtlely... | |
| "Best" cable elevators? I am currently using folded pieces of corrugated cardboard to elevate my speaker cables and power cords. In my system, they seem to restore intertransient silence (i.e. the carpet sounds like it was blurring the sound of my system).Anyone know how... | |
| Does it matter where a CD is manufactured? Any generalizations about U. S. releases manufactured in Canada? | |
| How do you think this system would sound? I currently own a very high resolution 2 channel audio system (Meridian 508.24 CD player, Joule-Electra LA-100 mk. 3 preamp, Joule-Electra Stargate amplifiers, Merlin VSM-SE bBAM speakers). With minimally processed, high quality CDs, the system is... | |
| Suggestions for optimizing Argent Room Lenses? I've tried placing the left and right outboard Room Lens as recommended by Argent, but to me this positioning doesn't seem to let the Merlin's "breathe" naturally (i.e. they seem to alter the soundstage the Merlins throw in a manner that just does... | |
| C-J Premier 12's vs. ARC VT100 MKII--advice? Paul McGowan commented on another Audiogon thread that his reference amps are the ARC VT-100 mk. 3 and Sonic Frontiers III monoblocks, so a PS Audio HCA-2 amp may be a powerful, cost-effective option falling somewhere between the ARC and CJ.Hope t... | |
| experience with low powered set amps and proac 2s I believe the Cary Audio 300SEI tube integrated is supposed to work very well with those speakers, especially given your maximal SPL constraints and music tastes. |