Links, tips, shortcuts and problem solving


Thread dedicated to anything and everything that helps us with high end audio, our computers, music, security and system set up tools.

It would be helpful if the first word in the post allows viewer to scan the list and open only what they need.
albertporter
Free computer security software. Even if you don’t use a Bit Torrent client to share files, PeerGuardian effectively blocks advances from advertisers, spam, Java application stubs and spyware.

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

Windows download is prominent and there is a Navigation bar on the right that provides links for Linux, and Mac OS X downloads.

My son runs this on Microsoft XP Pro and I have it on two Macintosh's running OS X. It's amazing the number of hits this turns away from my computer.
Listening room dimensions are often out of our control, but the Cardas Golden Cuboid dimensions have shown up in some of the best sounding listening rooms I've been in. Here's a link to the Cardas room ratios and other room setup suggestions...

Cardas Golden Cuboid Room Dimensions and other room setup suggestions
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Turntable fine tuning suggestions from Lloyd Walker... When you've got the basics right, the magic is in the final details and Lloyd describes how he's learned to do it.

Fine Tuning Your Turntable
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Look up any music, any artist, any song ever recorded. Many albums have the option to listen to part of each track.

A valuable tool if you're bidding on software at Audiogon or Ebay and can't remember what songs are on the album. You can also search by song title and see every person who has recorded it.

I use this EVERY day.

http://www.allmusic.com/