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| Why are LCDs more popular than plasma? LCDs are a better choice for the average household where background lighting is not controlled. When properly calibrated plasmas are superior, but real world people don't calibrate. | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Rwwear, your original statement was distilled water will not boil. The article you quote describes a procedure for superheating water. The key elements to superheating being the removal of all air pockets within the water, using a very smooth surf... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Rwwear, you are misinformed. Distilled water will boil when subjected to a sufficient amount of constant heat. Impurities can alter by a small amount the exact temperature at which boiling occurs, but even the purest of pure distilled water will b... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Distilled water will not boil? Please explain where you live because it's been boiling at my house for decades. | |
| A curious multichannel effect I don't know if they still do it, but for a number of years Yamaha's multichannel amplifiers had provisions for front surround speakers that were to be placed outside and above the main front speakers. It can offer a very open and spacious soundfi... | |
| Speakers to replace Monitor Audio Studio 20SEs Every two or three years I tighten them down. It was more of an issue the first few years, but not much lately. | |
| Radiohead's new business model: It should work, particularly if they tie it in with a world tour. Big name artist like Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Prince, etc. can easily gross $100,000,000+. The album sales are just the teaser.At a very different level in sales, although not art... | |
| Speakers to replace Monitor Audio Studio 20SEs I've been using a pair of MA Studio 20s since 1992, they are marvelous speakers. My suggestion would be to keep the speakers and change your amplifiers. Try some high end tube designs. Alternatively you could try to find a pair of Studio 50s or 60s. | |
| Jeff Rowland Concentra phono board Call Rowland and they will fax you a diagram. | |
| B&W Name Change Theory I have it on good authority that Bower & Wilkins aren't concerned about the German car maker, but about the potential suit for the heirs of Bob Marley & the Wailers. Rita, Ziggy et al. are getting aggressive about protecting the name of BM... | |
| Harman/Levinson/Proceed/Lexicon/Revel/ Deal Busted Is it really true that KKR is the second largest private employer in the US? | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? If Leo Fender had never been born, Jimi Hendrix would still have been a great guitarist. Like one of his mentors Jimi also played a Flying V. | |
| Best short-lived band? Stevecham, David Baerwald has several equally excellent solo albums. | |
| My new room is 8 x 16 x 32, what to do? Don't do anything until after you have setup your system and furnished the room. Empty rooms are notoriously deceiving about how they actually sound. It's only after you've experimented with how the room really sounds and how sensitive it and you ... | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? T-Bone Walker was more influential than Muddy Waters. His writing, singing, guitar playing and dancing were a major influence on Muddy, B.B. King and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix wasn't the first to play the guitar behind his head.That said, my vote ... |