onhwy61
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| "Pro" Active Monitors Reference quality is something of an over statement, but the Tannoys will provide you will high quality sound. I personally prefer the JBL LSR28Ps (available for less than $1,400 pr.). Spendor, Mackie and ATC also make superior quality active moni... | |
| Great music in bad commercials - what can you do? I'm shocked! I'm truly shocked! Imagine somebody using music for crass commercial purposes. In a way this is a variation of hero worship. Just because someone is talented, athletic or beautiful, we as fans assume that these people share our politi... | |
| What is "Clipping"? Clipping is not just a factor in power amplifiers. Any active circuit can be driven into clipping. When the signal is clipped, harmonically unrelated overtones at unnatural levels are introduced into the music. As a rule, analog circuits clip more... | |
| Recording levels on CD-R/Distortion Apparent loudness is a function of the average signal level. A recording engineer can make a recording sound very loud by increasing the average signal level and limiting (eliminating) signal peaks. Music recorded at a lower overall level has the ... | |
| Pros and Cons of Platter Mass Albertporter makes solid sense and as a practical matter a high mass platter is the way to go. On the impractical side, it's interesting to note that Andy Payor's Rockport turntable uses a direct drive motor that is capable of speed accuracy in th... | |
| could someone help with this composition What's up with Wagner? It's the "Kill the Rabbit" theme from "What's Opera Doc?" | |
| Pros and Cons of Platter Mass I hope this doesn't qualify as a freak argument, but I believe the ideal turntable platter would be close to no platter at all (the low mass concept taken to an extreme). The platter serves only two purposes, first it provides a place for the disc... | |
| Convert Me Does the Lexicon have a true analog pass through or does it digitize all of its inputs? If the latter, then going to vinyl won't make much sense. | |
| Rap music on high-end speakers Obviously some people have a serious problem with rap/hip-hop. More than just not liking the music, they seem to dislike what rap represents. I suspect that rap artists wouldn't have it any other way. As a form of expression rap music is created b... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time It's always good to hear other peoples musical choices. You may not always agree, but that's not really the point. For instance, as much as I love Bob Dylan - just look at my name - I've never thought of him as a "song" writer. He's rock n' roll's... | |
| Copy-protected CDs - philosophical discussion Music software sales fell by 5% in 2001 compared to 2000. The best selling software in December for Wintel machines was Easy CD Creator; the Mac best seller for the same month was Toast, another CD burning software. It's easy to see why record com... | |
| The big audiophile dilem In another thread on 1/18 you said that your Transparent References were a "really great match" for the Mini-Utopias. Has anything really changed in less than two weeks? | |
| Record Cleaning - Cartridge Damage The way I heard it the stylus cleaning fluid could migrate up the cantilever to the suspension (capillary action?). Your record cleaning should have no effect on the cartridge. Fumes are a non-issue. BTW, you shouldn't have to clean the same recor... | |
| Anyone using i tunes as a computer based jukebox? kdrofwdc, there's something called a Stereo-Link Model 1200. This is the web address of an article describing it. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/technology/circuits/24BASI.htmlIt's a New York Times sites, so you may have to go thru their regist... | |
| A/D recording suggestions and tips anyone? You have two basic choices, either a stand alone CD-R or a computer based recording/editing software with an integrated CD burner. Each method has its benefits and either method can produce quality results, however, the computer based method offer... |