I just received a one month sanction on an Australian (moderated) forum for calling out this thing as utter bull****: http://www.furutech.com/2017/10/11/15603/ I love the way the company has strung together a bunch of pseudo-scientific words to justify an expensive waste of money. I made the mistake of challenging the importer on the lies promulgated. Unfortunately, I ****ed off an...

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:59:52 +0000, Jim Lesurf wrote: In article , Woody wrote: Interesting observation. For some reason I always thought my first 14-bit Philips (CD104?) sounded better than anything I had later, and that the one that I

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:39:09 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , D.M. Procida wrote: The cheapest CDROM drive has to scrape every bit off a disc in order to function as a reliable device for digital storage of software and data. Presumably it can do...

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:31:00 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote: Jitter now the thing about this is that in pre jitter days, digital audio sounded decidedly odd. The absolute levels were erroneous quite often. The blurring with jitter has actually made CDs sound better but of course if you had infinite bits then you would not need it would you.

Good morning all. Is anyone interested in Leevers Rich E 200? Powers up, motor is working, not very good cosmetic condition. I don't have any idea about the value so I am open for reasonable offers. Thank you

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Looking for Star Trek Discovery season 1 Episodes 6 onwards in english. Why does it seem there are no posts any more ??? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com

I know this to be true but have often wondered about the science behind it. In them old analogue days I built a Mullard circuit for an image width control. Basically it was a device for adding the sound from the opposite channel to the other from fully in phase, ie Mono, to completely out of phase, but in the process, you could often find a position where the stereo was wider or the sound...

So many well respected names in tape recording are now kind of just brands used by others. I noted when I did some searches, for example that Akai is now headquartered in Singapore as a subsidiary of Grande Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, which also owns the formerly Japanese brands Nakamichi and Sansui. The Akai brand is now used to rebadge electronics manufactured by other...

Back in the day, most audio enthusiasts were also keen constructors, valve amp kits, instructions for projects from Mullard, or circuits from Wireless World were put together on kitchen tables on rsiny Saturday afternoons throughout the UK. Speaker building was also popular. Drawings of Tannoy and Goodmans cabinets were available, and Kef produced Kefkits. For those who wanted to make music,...

Anyone know of (hopefully free) software which will give a real time display of energy bands? If say you fed white noise into an amp and the output to the PC, it gives a graphic of the energy at different frequencies - a sort of instant frequency response trace. Thing like Audacity can analyse a recorded sample afterwards - I was looking for something which will do it in real time.

I'd like to convert about 4000 FLAC files to 16/44 ALAC. Most of the FLAC files are 16/44, a few are 24/96, and a few are in between. Speed isn't an issue - I can leave the PC (or Mac) running all day. I've been using this recently to no apparent ill effect: https://www.mediahuman.com/howto/convert-flac-to-alac.html However, I want to be sure that the conversion is as accurate as possible....

Good afternoon all. I have joined as I have just been given a pair of Mission 765 speakers which I intend to use in my workshop. The reason for posting is that one of the tweeters no longer functions and I was wondering if anyone was able to recommend a suitable replacement? Does not need to be high quality (sorry but I am not an audiophile) would just like to hear the treble and as they are...

I've recently been writing up a sort of 'working biog'. Most of this isn't related to audio. But the page I have just put up may have some details of interest here. It can be found at http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/qmc7/Variety.html and reveals my lack of any fashion sense. :-) The set of pages are all linked from

A friend was extolling the Virtues of his new Sonus whatever it was, but to me it sounds like aa small speaker in a box with artificially enhanced bass all on one note. It cost a packet too, but has some kind of convoluted distribution system via wifi. I do wonder if, Imprressive and different is the currency today, rather than accurate in any way. Brian -- ----- -

Just testing Eternal Septembers new server. I don't want loads of messages from every portal it visits! Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please!

Seems to me that more and more radio channels of Freeview have high levels, much higher than most tv stations. Time was when only rnib connect radio had this, but increasingly as more and more plump for mono, the volumes are creeping up. Should they not at least try to balance tem with the tv? Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Good day, I am a hifi dealer from India and am looking for Preowned dealers from South East Asia, UK and Europe for used 220v original sharp quick sale deals in brands like - Avm, Accuphase, Mcintosh and also Pmc. Only scratch less units max 8/10 please. Thanks

Somewhere, I read an article about a musician (maybe) and he was asked what his favourite gadgets were. One on his replies was his Adams monitor speakers. This seems to be a German company and the only thing I can see is that they don't have grilles at the front (so how do you keep the dust out ?). They seem to have an unusual tweeter, not the usual cone arrangement.

** Hi Trev, see hi-res pic of Bose 1800 amp module, after some repairs. Brings back memories ..... http://i.imgur.com/bJtva.jpg