twl
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| Can you work hard while listening to music? Okay, CW, sorry about the "working" songs. To your point, I have found that I like to listen to soothing music while working. Something that doesn't require much attention. The hard rock stuff, although I enjoy it, has an agitating effect on me, a... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? This is a very simple question. The answer has been shown to me dozens of times throughout my life. And, yes, I am still not married. The basic reason is that when you are spending time, money, and attention on the stereo system, you are not spend... | |
| Can you work hard while listening to music? How could I have forgotten "I've been working on the railroad"?! Somebody slap me! | |
| Can you work hard while listening to music? I recommend:John Handy "Hard Work"Miles Davis "Workin'"10 Years After "Workin' on the Road"Steely Dan "Dirty Work"4 Tops "Workin' My Way Back to You"Bachmann Turner Overdrive "Takin' Care of Business"Grateful Dead "Workingman's Dead"Johnny Paychec... | |
| Passive Pre question. Again? Gold Point SA-3 Why don't you call Bob Bergner at RB Audio. Tell him that Tom Lyons told you to call and ask about what kind of effect the Goldpoint Attenuators will have on your system. He either manufactures them or distributes them, and has alot of experience ... | |
| Pure Power You must use very short, heavy cables from the battery bank to the inverter. In the above example, where the inverter is providing 1200 watts, the battery cables will be carrying 100 amps. Too small cables will get you a fire. Also, you must insta... | |
| How to find vinyl? I read a very interesting article last night on the web. It was about the MoFi recording of DSOTM. It said in the article that MoFi ruined the original master tape of DSOTM when someone put the tape on a deck, and accidentally pushed "RECORD". Par... | |
| Pure Power You can determine the run time by multiplying the amps drawn by your equipment, times the number of hours you want to run. This will give your amp/hours, which is how deep cycle batteries are rated. If you don't know how to calculate the current d... | |
| Pure Power Sean, as I previously stated the interference is non-existant. You are probably referring to the cheaper modified sine wave units that are popular for campers. This is a "perfect sine-wave" device, with the characteristics described above. I have ... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight Cdc, this is a highly system-dependent decision.If it were just simple resistance, or just skin-effect, the decision would be simple. But the capacitance and inductance of the cables interact with the characteristics of your components and speaker... | |
| Quiet fan for rack cooling installation? Try a small muffin fan from radio shack or some electronics supply house. They are pretty quiet, and made for cooling electronic equipment. They come is a variety of sizes, probably a 4" would be good for your application. You may have to run it o... | |
| Audiogoners, I love you........ Surely, everyone by now, must know that this site is a daily part of my life. Rarely does a day go by that I don't read and post on Audiogon. Sometimes I will check this site 3 or 4 times a day. Since I don't have any real audiophiles in my local ... | |
| What will become of my beloved CDs? You can keep them and listen to them in the future, on a "vintage" CD player. Just like we vinyl-types do with our records and "vintage" turntables. Of course, you will have to suffer the slings and arrows of some young tech-heads who will tell yo... | |
| Re-Chrome Mcintosh Amps? The chroming is the easy part. You can get that done by a million different auto chrome shops. The hard part is to get them re-screened as orignal. Contact McIntosh. | |
| How to find vinyl? I have been a vinyl collector for many years. The places to look are, of course, used record shops, if any are in your area. If not, pawn shops, Goodwill, Charity stores, flea markets, are all sources. At these places, you might find 1 or 2 good a... |