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would something like this or some portion of it work for the slow sweep? or possibly a scope screen ?

Any of these?

Mmmbop immediately came to mind. Alternating that with the Macarena would surely violate the Geneva Convention. However, Pour Some Sugar on Me may be the the most heinous atrocity ever committed. I personally get the heebie jeebies from the following: Boot Scoot Cotton Eyed Achy Breaky

There's also a downloadable version if you wanted to burn a disc. The link is currently in the Resident section so Mark would have to PM it to you. It's also available here without arbitrary restrictions.

Man, that stuff is recorded hot. Input DACs clipping at 50%. (and I keep having to ride the input gain down from there.....) That's a first. My inner basshead digs it, of course.

As far as I'm concerned, as long as there's NPR and a way to hear it, all is well with the universe. Digital, analog, online, whatever. Radiolab, On the Media, To the Best of Our Knowledge South Carolina's Your Day with Clemson Profs answering listener questions..... There are people out there with actual minds trying to communicate with the non-braindead part of America that remains. If you haven't listened in a while, I suggest you give it a few minutes of your time.

This prompted much adrenaline-fueled interstate insanity back when I was in my 30s. It's since been removed from random play while I'm behind the wheel

Thanks for all the great answers guys. Lots of options for sure. It looks like he's got an M1.0t MK2 Opt 2 and ab M-500t MK2 in this setup.

There is a member using a C-1 to drive 2 stereo amplifiers. One output goes to the amp he has driving his speakers' built-in woofer inputs. The other goes to his speakers' built-in mid/tweeter inputs. He's happy using the crossovers that are built into the speakers for this setup. His only issue is that he needs to dial back the gain on one of the amps to level-match with the other one. Ideally, he'd like a component that he can simply plug RCAs (unbalanced setup) into to accomplish this. He doesn't need a full-on set of active crossovers. Anyone know of a decent quality component to do this with that will introduce the least noise into the chain? Given how little this thing has to do, is there a cheap solution?

The 60" ribbons don't do high highs that well. I squeeze all I can out of mine by pointing them directly at the sweet spot. I'm also considering weights and taller jacks to make them dead vertical without any chance of tipping forward. Otherwise, I place them about like Reese does, although in a much smaller room.

From reading the review of God is not One - here , and also from the review of his previous book, Blind Faith, reviewed - here , it appears that Prothero is trying to educate us about religion. Americans, he argues (correctly, in my opinion) are incredibly ignorant about the religions of other cultures and sadly, about Christianity as well. This is particularly important, in my opinion, because most of us get our news from more and more biased sources. Thank you for the suggestion, Rich. It looks like a good read.

In the living room: 1 pair Amazings 1 pair DQ-8s as tweeters above 6kHz In the computer room: 2 pairs of Monsoon planar magnetics w/ subwoofers. In the Closet: Infinity's worst 5.1 setup ever. 1 pair Advent Powered Partners + plus sub. 1 pair Boston Acoustics 6 1/2" from old car. 1 pair itsy-bitsy pioneer car tweeters (13mm?) 1 pair Maggie SMGs In the attic: 1 pair of 800 ohm Philips speakers which only work with OTL tube amp. 1 gutted pair of DA PS-10 bookshelves. 1 diy car sub from about 20 years ago (been trying to remember where I left the other one for 15 years.) So, 10 1/2 pairs plus a 5.1 set. I can't wait to hear Rod's list!

That stepped-looking response is misleading. The magic that's actully happening is lots of fancy math is used and the sine wave is reconstructed using those data points. As it turns out, you only need two of those data points per cycle to have enough information to rebuild the waveform. That's called Nyquist theory or somesuch and is pretty well agreed upon. The upshot of is is that if you sample 44,100 times a second, you can accurately rebuild waveforms of frequencies up to 22,050 Hz on a CD and much much higher with DVD Audio. The part that's perhaps a bit less certain is whether or not reconstructing with resolution beyond 20 kHz can be perceived. I think it's an oversimplification to just dismiss doing this simply because we can't hear higher than 16kHz or so. Tiny delays in sound arrivals allow us to tell what direction a sound comes from. We can't say "Ooh, I sensed a 30 microsecond delay." But, we can point to where we think a sound came from based on the arrival time to our two ears.

Sorry if that wasn't clear. It is now possible for regular people to make exact digital copies of SACDs. As far as I know, it was the last significant digital audio format to be cracked, in other words, to have the copy-protection defeated.

Wait a minute, I forgot, we're talking about the RIAA here. Now that the last audio format has been cracked (SACD), they have to invent another one so that they can resurrect their glory days of raping artists and consumers alike. Maybe they've finally reached their goal of creating a format with 1000 bit encryption and a 3dB dynamic range!

I thought we already had several high def formats. wave flac dsd dvdaudio I read it like he was just saying we'd start seeing the industry marketing it more.

#1 on January 28th. Pretty good tune, actually. Looks like Michael really was black. Very cool relating everyone's age to #1 songs.

Absolutely! He has one heck of a good ear for this stuff. If he was the guy making the decisions on how today's music would be mastered, we'd be in the golden age of audio right now. He's forgotten more about audio than I can ever hope to learn. I was mercilessly nagging him to make another CD at the fest and he never let on for a second that he already had. They later gave them away as a surprise.

Let's talk about Tori Amos. Now, I know many consider her stuff to be lesbian music, kind of like the musical version of a chick flick, but she had a great run of a couple of albums: Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. If you don't know her, she's kind of posh British-sounding sometimes, even though she's from somewhere in Carolina. I was never attracted to her per se, but after years of seeing her on the album covers and getting mind-fu**ed by her opaque oft-dense lyrics, somehow I find myself with a bit of a thing for smart redheads. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell a cornflake girl is. And when she says, "God, sometimes, you don't come through." Is she talking to a lover, or referring to God? I spent years subconsciously pondering this shit, never really being able to connect the dots. It's the same thing, I suppose, that kept me going on Pink Floyd. Pretty Good Music, with promise of something deeper under the surface that you never can quite grasp; always tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach. But anyway, this is getting long. So, she follows up these two amazing albums with this stinking piece of, um, well, you get the idea. Yeah, that's right, she's breast-feeding a pig. I should have known then. Perhaps the title: Boys For Pele should have stopped me dead. It did kind of conjure up images of soccer ball wielding pedophiles, hmmm ... The real meaning of the title is even worse. In her own words:"First I wanted to sacrifice all these guys to the volcano goddess (Pele) and roast them like marshmallows, then I decided they gave me a really wonderful gift." She's referring to her ex boyfriends. Alanis Morrisette's You Ought to Know spewed that scorned rage in a way we all could appreciate, but Tori's reaction to rejection was just too deep and intellectually obscure and well, musically uninspired to offer any hope for this stinking piece of - (oh, that's right, I already called it that). Ironically, it debuted at #2 simultaneously in the US and the UK. I'm sure there were millions of us back in 1996 wishing we could have our $20 back. Maybe I'll try it again. It's been fifteen years, perhaps I'm more in touch with my inner angry self-actualizing empowered piglet breast-feeding feminine self. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it's going to collect dust for another decade and a half. Great thread idea btw.

Just heard this on the radio and thought it might be of interest. Audio link: How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? A look at the process that the recording industry goes through "manufacturing" a new song. More info. (The comments are great.) " well, finally an explanation as to why this stuff sounds like SH!T " " "radio play has been minimal"?!?!?! clearly, you do not listen to hot 97. " " Boy, I sure hope she gets paid! She's obviously a starving artist that puts a lot of creativity into her craft. You know, like ... um ... showing up and singing. Maybe putting some warbling vibrato where it really didn't need to be... that takes a lot of talent. And make-up." Here's the song they "built." I lasted about 15 seconds, muted it and watched the Rhianna's hooters and played some Moody Blues.

Thanks for all the great suggestions. Tried the scrapers. Then graduated to prying on opposite sides with 2 big screwdrivers with tips covered in plastic. All that seemed to do was make the metal frame flex. Tried twisting. Even tried one of those jar opener lever things. Might borrow a strap wrench from one of the pipefitters at work. Looks like the glue is still pretty damned healthy. I'm still wondering about the hole in the end: Anyone know what it's for? Puller? Alignment during assembly perhaps? Here's more info about it: I tried threading a longer screw in as the thread seemed like it went all the way to the bottom. However either it didn't or there's 2 pieces that aren't fully aligned... The space between the red line and the yellow line is the hole depth. Yellow being the bottom of the hole, red being flush with the surface. On top is the original screw. The middle shows how far I was able to thread a longer screw before it stopped. The bottom piece shows the full depth of the hole. If I owned a rubber hammer, I probably would have knocked the crap out of this thing in frustration. Any more suggestions?

I've read that thread and it's really helpful for reassembly. Call me stupid, but I can't figure out how to get them apart.

Not sure if I asked this clearly or not: Anyone know how to detach the magnets without destroying the voice coil? I have 2 extra damaged woofers to practice on before I take on the one from the video.