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DaddyJT was kind and gracious to send me the CD set. I have an iTunes library version of the two disks in Apple Loseless, if you need soft copies with cover art. Supertramp, Chris Rea, Flecktones (Flight of the Cosmic Hippo), Allison Krauss are wonderfully done. Patricia Barber for Jazz aficionados is also a good one. Ellington at Newport is also a good one.

The Wilson Sisters are excellent, together, or solo. Their Heart days are wonderful. Pat Benatar is another one. I will also (sheepishly though) recommend Bangles. Annie Lennox (and Eurythmics). Sinead O'Connor. Sade.

Glad to see you like Krall. If you like Piano, you may want to try Piano Grand: Smithsonian Celebration Live she is on it as well. OTD should be credited with Eva Cassidy find. I got Karise Eden - My Journey - which Danowood recommended in this thread (wish the backup band was bit better). Do you like Bonnie Raitt?

Let me use swept sine wave and update.

Updated.

DaddyJT (Mark) sent me the two disks. They are wonderful. Thanks, Mark. I have created an iTunes library with artwork that I could find, on a Mac. It should also be portable to a Windows machine. If anyone is interested, I can upload it to a DropBox location for users to be able to stream it. The encoding is Apple Loseless AC. If there are any suggestions for the three missing artwork pieces (Battlestar Galactica, Overture and the Frequency Sweeps), I can add suggested artwork.

Interstellar coming to fruition! Who is going to fix the EM drive, if it breaks down or there is no solar power, since no one really knows how it works?

(Down) On The Beach

The CD could have been done better. YouTube does more justice to her than this CD. The Dock of The Bay

Carversite Reference CD #1 - 1. Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo 2. Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound (shades of Keith Emerson and Floyd - very cool). Whoever made the Vinyl recording of Supertramp did an absolutely fantabulous job.

What a travesty and a shame to have destroyed the place. It should have been preserved as a museum. (and... .listening to Chris Rea's Road to Hell 1 & 2 - thanks to DaddyJT)

The only way to control EM is to get rid of electricity. A car has EM, forget WiFi, BT, Microwave. Power lines at 110Kv/440Kv are equally dangerous. 110v/220v home power lines also emit radiation. Fluorescent lights emit radiation, as does CFL. Any copper conductor, even inside a dielectric/insulator will emit radiation. The modern lifestyle is full of EM. OCCD just adds to it.

They do need re-capping once in a while (about every 20+ years or so).

From SONOS faq

The AC-1200 will run 802.11ac which is gigabit wireless. If your neighborhood does not have much 802.11ac, you should be streaming very well. 11ac also has beam-forming. 5Ghz 802.11n (160+ channels) will work, but has much higher attenuation. 2.4g 802.11n has too few channels (11) compared to 5g. Fewer electronics in 2.4g band (DSS, Phones, Microwaves, Bluetooth) are better as well. This is the killer. Video applications run look-ahead and buffer which can be challenge in noisy environments. Good SNR will always provide better quality. My neighborhood is inundated with 5g/2.4g 11n. It is a PITA to get stable streams. I am currently using wired/bridged APs to distribute wifi in different rooms. Streaming devices are all wired via Cat5e in my case. I am envious of you and B-man.

There is some inertia due to concern about SQ using WiFi now. WiFi beam-forming is slowly trickling down from commercial to consumer equipment space. If you use WiFi, you are moving the amplification from line level signals to be inside the speakers. It is not much of an advance, because the amplification technology (unless you use Meridian stuff) now has additional space constraints to be crammed inside a speaker enclosure. B&O also has done this. The other challenge is bandwidth and latency. Data streams can be retransmitted but audio requires real-time sync between between multiple speakers. Jitter is introduced in such systems, and new methods to overcome such jitter add to complications. Do you recall ESP in a Sony CD Walkman? It would read-ahead and buffer music streams. Wireless will need the same. From 802.11n (megabits/second) there will be a need for 802.11ac (gigabit/second). This is almost the same speed as HDMI 1.2 (2-4GBps). 4k (HDMI2.0) will not make it using the current technology. Think of VoIP. This is much larger bandwidth over wireless. The technology needs to mature a bit, IMO. It reminds me of some conspiracy theories and having hand in peoples pockets and selling snake oil to The Gullibles.

The floor needed to support such weight is also a lot of work for you. The other approach I have seen taken is to allow the vibrations to be absorbed before they get to critical infrastructure. For example earthquake-prone areas have some fascinating building solutions using hydraulics. Modern washing machines are similarly engineered.

Clapton -> Cross Roads -> Double Trouble.

Thanks to OldTexasDog for introducing me to Eva C

Welcome back to the fold, PapaJoe. Bit OT, but I have a Sony KE32TS2 (with a fan) still going strong. It is a second generation plasma.

Welcome to the loony bin, MCP! Kindred spirits in these parts to make ya feel at home.

The Origami Mona Lisa by Kikuchi is impressive.

Fascinating. Every time I hear stories like this, i think of Oskar Schindler (of the Schindler's List fame).