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| The Future: No More Shiny Discs. Who Benefits? I think all the hand wringing and garment rending over iPods and online distribution is missplaced.There's nothing sacred about the shiny disc, though if one had fallen from the sky during the 12th century people would surely have formed a religio... | |
| The Future: No More Shiny Discs. Who Benefits? But the downside for the record companies is that buying music will now be ala carte, one song a time and only the ones you really want, no more buying 11 lousy songs to get one good one. That's one of the reasons record companies did everything t... | |
| Best lines in a song "My second cousin, his name was Calloway,He died when he'd barely turned two.And it was peanut butter and jelly that did it,The help, she didn't know what to do,She just stood there and watched him turn blue."Lyle Lovett - 'Family Reserve' | |
| Remote Controlling PC with Palm I don't have any experience with it but the Salling web site does list the Salling Clicker software as being available for Windows XP. | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? The soft gray finish of the 4s11 is reasonably attractive and I've never bothered to sheath it but it's certainly a possibility if you want to make the cable less obtrusive by matching a carpet color, for instance, or more obtrusive if you're maki... | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? MarkCombining the two 14-gauge connectors by crimping or soldering them together to one terminal will give you the equivalent of an 11 gauge conductor, one 'size' bigger than 12 gauge. | |
| Cheap DVD Player and Quality DAC I agree with Unsound about taking care with the choice in DVD player. While the sound of a very inexpensive player run through a good DAC can be quite remarkable, the ergonomics and build quality can be frustrating. Try out the one you think you'r... | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? Sorry, you also asked about sources for cable. The Canare 4s11 is available at http://www.markertek.com/index.asp for $.69 a foot.Markertek has a huge site that's difficult to navigate and sports one of the worst search engines I've ever encounter... | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? You could be up all night, or several nights, reading old posts in this forum on that topic. If you'll do a search on the cables suggested above and add 'Canare 4s11' to the group you'll find a lot of very useful information, and a lot of marginal... | |
| Connecting I-pod to Integrated Amplifiers Marco is exactly right. The iPod is brilliantly engineered to provide extreme portability. Ultimate fidelity isn't the point at all. If you go very far down the path of optimizing the sound by eliminating the DAC and amplifier inside the iPod you ... | |
| Connecting I-pod to Integrated Amplifiers Ckorody, I was not saying that cables don't matter. On the contrary, I pointed out that there may be better options that the Radio Shack cable originally suggested, including the Audioquest that I own. The original question seemed to be simply how... | |
| Connecting I-pod to Integrated Amplifiers Bignerd100 is right, just get a cable that has a 1/8 stereo mini plug on one end and dual RCA plugs on the other. Put the mini plug into the headphone jack on the iPod and the RCA's into any line-level input on your integrated. I'm not advocating ... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? MatrixTo your comment:"an Apple type computer is suppose to be excellent, but Ipod itself is not near the quality of CD from my understanding."An iPod is just a very small hard drive installed in a very small case with some software to navigate to... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? The CD itself will be a relic soon, as well. As available bandwith increases, delivery of the original music will all be computer to computer and there won't be any need for the little plastic disc. That trend is already well underway for computer... | |
| New Cambridge 540 vs. Used Music Hall CD25 ChaknapI bought the opamps for my CD25 from Sound Odyssey, who were a regular advertiser here on Audiogon but I don't find any of their ads at the moment. I put in AD8066 opamps, which came from Sound Odyssey mounted on very small adapter boards.I... |