onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Rowland Concentra mk1 - Leaving it on? The amp should be warm, but not hot. Call Rowland, they have excellent service. | |
| Power PC G3 as music source? It should work, but a more powerful machine will make for faster, and potentially better sounding, lossless translations. | |
| Digital remastering of CD's As far as I know, there are no true 24 bit A/D converters. So 24 bit resolution is more of a marketing ploy than a reality. Also, any recent releases by reputable companies have been remastered at high bit/sample rate resolution. And even if they ... | |
| Article in WSJ about compressed dynamic range Perhaps some studio rats might pipe in, but it's my understanding that the process used to make super loud recordings involves much more than simple compression. It's not just flicking a single switch and it cannot presently be duplicated at the c... | |
| Lack in harmonic richness A parametric equalizer would either help you to analyze your "problem", or solve it. It ain't that complicated, unless you really want it to be that way. | |
| Life As I knew in My Audio World Has Ended, Help Have you tried elevating your power cords off the floor? | |
| iMac 600mhz OK for Server Is it a G3 or G4. Either would work, but the G4 will give you better performance running OS X software. | |
| the process is more challenging than the result Alas, poor Mrtennis! | |
| XLR-RCA: Adapters or Custom Cable? If resale value is a major concern then you might consider an external transformer based balanced to singe ended converter. The downside is that you'll need two sets of cables. | |
| How Do I Point iTunes to use my backup ext drive? This is a very simple task and I don't understand why people are trying to make it so complex. You've done everything correctly -- two separate drives with one serving as a backup. If each drive had the exact same info organized in the same file h... | |
| Measure My Turntable Speed Unless you have perfect pitch it's not really that important that your turntable spin at exactly 33 1/3 as long as it spins without deviating from its speed. I'd recommend getting close to 33 1/3, but don't get fanatical about it. | |
| Replacements for Quad 989's ?? Add the Gradient Revolution woofer sections to the Quads. Use the active crossovers. | |
| How Do I Point iTunes to use my backup ext drive? You need to give the backup drive the exact same path name as the dead drive. Once you set up your next backup drive you would be better off physically separating the drives as much as possible. | |
| Do You Allow Anyone Else To Operate Your Rig? Just to be argumentative, if your system is comparable to a jetliner cockpit, and yes, someone did clearly imply that to be the case, then why would you leave it out at a party unattended? If your system is that complex and that valuable wouldn't ... | |
| Do You Allow Anyone Else To Operate Your Rig? Excluding turntable/cartridges, what's with all the comments about serious harm coming to your system from pushing the wrong button? I've seen quite a few systems in my time, but never one with a "danger Will Robinson" setting. Why would anyone de... |