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| I need a new Source I'm familiar with two players that can switch between NTSC and PAL output but there must be many more. The two I'm familiar with are the California Audio Labs CL-2500 DVD (one of which I have for sale) and the Rotel RDV-1060. Both work well as tra... | |
| CD-R burnout My experience with trying to preserve various kinds of digital data over the last 20 years or so is that the problem is almost always the obsolescence of the player, or the interface between the player and the output device, rather than the longev... | |
| Cable Assemblers and DIY Moon Audio | |
| Stereophile review of the T-Amp The coolest thing about the T-amp, other than the price, is something I didn't anticipate at all. In my home office, where I spend way too much time in front of the computer, it's incredibly handy to have the amp and its volume control right there... | |
| Voltage Adaptation - Help an Unknowledgeable Buyer I don't have any technical knowledge about this but I've been using a European model, 230V, Cambridge Audio CD4 player with a Powerbright 100W transformer that I bought new for less than $20 online. It works and sounds great. | |
| Good Budget CD and integrated???? I recommended the Music Hall CD-25 in my post above and it occurs to me now that a very good combination could be a Music Hall CD-25.2 paired with the new Music Hall A-Series integrated amp, particularly if your friend prefers to buy new and get a... | |
| Good Budget CD and integrated???? I own an Audio Refinement Complete integrated amp and a Music Hall CD-25 player with upgraded opamps. The combination is very, very nice and could be had used for less than your budget.Another alternative I can recommend from personal experience w... | |
| The Future: No More Shiny Discs. Who Benefits? I think all the hand wringing and garment rending over iPods and online distribution is missplaced.There's nothing sacred about the shiny disc, though if one had fallen from the sky during the 12th century people would surely have formed a religio... | |
| The Future: No More Shiny Discs. Who Benefits? But the downside for the record companies is that buying music will now be ala carte, one song a time and only the ones you really want, no more buying 11 lousy songs to get one good one. That's one of the reasons record companies did everything t... | |
| Best lines in a song "My second cousin, his name was Calloway,He died when he'd barely turned two.And it was peanut butter and jelly that did it,The help, she didn't know what to do,She just stood there and watched him turn blue."Lyle Lovett - 'Family Reserve' | |
| Remote Controlling PC with Palm I don't have any experience with it but the Salling web site does list the Salling Clicker software as being available for Windows XP. | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? The soft gray finish of the 4s11 is reasonably attractive and I've never bothered to sheath it but it's certainly a possibility if you want to make the cable less obtrusive by matching a carpet color, for instance, or more obtrusive if you're maki... | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? MarkCombining the two 14-gauge connectors by crimping or soldering them together to one terminal will give you the equivalent of an 11 gauge conductor, one 'size' bigger than 12 gauge. | |
| Cheap DVD Player and Quality DAC I agree with Unsound about taking care with the choice in DVD player. While the sound of a very inexpensive player run through a good DAC can be quite remarkable, the ergonomics and build quality can be frustrating. Try out the one you think you'r... | |
| Speaker Cable-The Best of the Cheap? Sorry, you also asked about sources for cable. The Canare 4s11 is available at http://www.markertek.com/index.asp for $.69 a foot.Markertek has a huge site that's difficult to navigate and sports one of the worst search engines I've ever encounter... |