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| Blind Person Needs a New FM Receiver The HK stuff is nice and reasonably priced:http://www.harmanaudio.com/search_browse/product_detail.asp?urlMaterialNumber=HK%203390&status=No affiliation. | |
| Time Has Come Today-The Chambers Brothers 'scuse me while I kiss this guy. | |
| Is Stereophile seeking a new reader demographic? I love the political carping in Stereophile. Both on the right, and on the left. Reading about audio and sifting through the measurements can be so dry. Especially after having done it for decades. Bring on the politics, toothbrush recommendations... | |
| Is Stereophile seeking a new reader demographic? Since they are advertising Viagra/Levitra/Cialis in the back these days, perhaps they could give away one of those pump things with a subscription. | |
| The most creative word for plywood you know. Nor is oriented strand board. | |
| The most creative word for plywood you know. Yes, those speaker guys love to call chip board "medium density fiberboard" or "oriented strand board" or the like. | |
| LP pressings from other countries? There are really two issues here, the first is mastering quality. Most labels never let the master tape for an album leave the their posession, instead sending safety masters, which are second generation, or later, to other countries. So the close... | |
| Difference between New and Old Amp WPC ratings.... You should try a tube amp on your big honkin' efficient Cerwin Vega speakers; you will be very surprised. | |
| Stereophile vs. Sports Illustrated Now that Stereophile sports an add for Viagra/Cialis/Levitra in the back each month I can only assume that the advertiser has found its target audience, ageing guys who like to listen to music alone in the dark. | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? Has2be, I wasn't speaking about Michell at all, simply about the chemical composition of Delrin. It was also chemical and spelling education as well. Miss that part? | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? The name of the plastic is Delrin, a DuPont trade name for polyoxymethylene. It is a homopolymer so it does not contain nylon, though there is a carbon molecule in it. I know that Applied Fidelity makes mats out of the stuff for Technics 1200s and... | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? Maybe because it's non-magnetic and so won't suck the magnet in the phono cartridge down into it. Just surmising here. Stainless steel would be more expensive to buy and machine, glass is freqently used, as are the plastics. But I don't know that ... | |
| Uncommonly long RCA IC cables? It depends on the output impedance of your preamp and the combined impedance of the cable and the input to your power amp. Ideally, the ratio should be 1/20. If you are unable to do the calculation, the best method is to use very low impedance int... | |
| Pet Peeves Albert funny, I used to use a yellow highlighter - lived in LA at the time - and after I was done marking the issue, I would start calling. All of the really sweet stuff was gone before we would get our issues on the West Coast. Well, if Walt didn... | |
| Pet Peeves Albert, I did, but it hits a bit too close to home! BTW, my dog, Lucky, says to say hello to you. It seems that the days we used to be in AudioMart are so far away now. Walt passed away and, from time to time, I think about Lenice and Early.Best,M... |