jbmays
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| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Cannot help but to comment on Lyle and his large band: in the summer of (about) 2004 in Madison, WI, Aretha cancelled with short notice as the headliner in the summer MusicFest on the lake. I had two tickets, and decided to go even though I coul... | |
| Where do you buy your CDs these days? Here's a no-brainer: go to your local public library, check out 20 CDs at a time; preview in your car while driving over the next week or two. Rip the ones you like at home, return all---FREE!! | |
| Are manufacturer AC cables good enough? Can someone please help me through the following line of reasoning:AC current travels 2-3 miles from a transfer station at 220 volts, enters my home into a distribution/circuit breaker box, travels through 45 feet of 12 gauge solid copper wire at ... | |
| CD ripper Anyone unable to have an iMac even recognize/rip older Blue Note CDs (oddly most seem to be Rudy Van Gelder versions)? Cannot get them to be "seen" at all in disc drive; they just eject after failed reading. | |
| CD no more produced? I cannot believe that no one has mentioned how incredibly valuable our public libraries are for obtaining CDs for ripping! I drive my kids around most weekdays, and routinely stop in to grab 15-20 CDs. I then preview them - all while driving - ... | |
| Dumb question #643: should speaker cables last a lifetime? gammajo has made the observation I have been waiting for: I too have modest quality 10G fine-strand copper speaker cable with clear sheathing. Within 5 years, green oxidation is evident over the copper's surface throughout the length of the cab... | |
| Are Ohm-Walsh micros and 1000 series disrespected because of omni-directional design?? As a newcomer to mid-hi-fi sound in 1983, I stumbled onto a pair of Ohm Walsh-4's that were just a year old, and picked them up. Fed them a diet of NAD 2400 power amp 100 w or dual-bridged 240 w juice, and no matter what, they filled a fairly lar... |