doctorcilantro

In light of the interesting Passion of Joan of Arc post, what are some titles that are simply mind-boggling in terms of sonic beauty. I am thinking about more esoteric sounds rather than the classical musical genres (although its hard to avoid things like In A Silent way etc.); instrumental stuff with maybe chanting or chorus. For example: the Tibetan Monks of Loseling Monestary & the Melansian Choir Sings Chants of The Thin Red Line come to mind. Just some weird, ecletic stuff that can take your system and your mind for a ride. I saw some cliched titles in a store the other day that were called Life Moments or something...almost background music, funny but got me thinking; maybe I have been working too hard? Guess I am just in the mood to add some really strange, ethereal SOUNDS to my collection. You know who I REALLY like is Ali Farka Toure.

I think you should go out and buy some interesting comp. albums because you don't neccesarily know what your going to get. I just went out and bought a 2LP funk compilation, 2LP Rare Memphis R&B comp., and the new Wilco album. I can't wait to hook up my TT; since we moved last week it's still lying dormant. That fires me up, spinning new albums or cd's. It's hard not to want to "play" with your gear once it's all set up! Dr. C

Muege-man, Now all you need are those RF-7's!!!! I think you'll dig the Sunfire; that's a great price too. The only downside to mine was the phono board tubes had been glued in and it was a pain installing my RCA's. I picked up some Phillips NOS 6922's and they are sounding nice. I'd say your getting a really good deal since I got mine for 1000$ with phono & inverse cd board. enjoy! Dr. C

Anybody using the 2-ohm taps on the RF-7s, or RF-3's for that matter? I had been using the 7's with th 4ohm tap and I am curious about the 2. I know it was mentioned the 7's can dip down that far. Dr. C

Thanks guys. My apt in Maine & last one in Florida both had 2 circuits in each room. From what I have heard and experienced it is common practice; one person told me it was code here. The house a 150 amp breaker but my neighbor, for some reason, says it will be closer to 200amps....do know how that could be?? Anyway, the water heater is on a dedicated 30? amp breaker; I think they left it switched off when they needed to move it to do some caulking the other day. I don't add up amps? I add wattage? I thought, as when adding up amps to use on a UPS, you would total the amps used and if the amps were say 25amps on a 15 amp curcuit the voltage would begin to drop, or in the case of overloading the UPS with too many amps, it simply would not work and the fault alarm comes on. Same with computers' switching power supplies; the 12v rail usually has 18-20 amps, some more pricy ones can take up too 30amps. You total up the devices and try not to overload the 12v line with all your hard drives, crazy video card, optical drives, etc. From State Farm website: " * Circuits can only handle a specified total wattage of all electrical devices plugged into and running on a branch circuit at one time. Here is a guide from the National Electrical Safety Foundation (NESF) to follow: 15-amp branch circuit can carry 1500 watts 20-amp branch circuit can carry 2000 watts Most home circuits are designed as 15-amp branch circuits. A hair dryer can draw 1400 watts, an iron 1000 watts, a portable heater 1200 watts, a vacuum cleaner 600 watts, deep fat fryer 1300 watts, and a portable fan 150 watts." My system is mostly listed here. I am using 2 PC's, one with a 300w psu and one with 480w along with the audio gear and LCD and maybe router, cable modem, air pump for tonearm, and phone. System link: http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/profile/myprofile.asp?userID=26093&mode=system&sessionID={9282A232-20FB-49BA-95F3-6F9D26405800} Maybe we can try to figure out how many amps/wattage I actually using. DR. C

Hey all, We are moving in, exhausted, and ready to sleep for a long time. Today I was looking at the breakers and realized that the two guest bedrooms, one of which will become the "audio room", are on one 15 amp circuit. An electrical engineer and I were discussing just yesterday, how usually all the outlets in a room are usually divided onto two circuits. There are a total of 8 outlets in each room. I don't feel I'll need (2) dedicated 20amp circuits in one room but will this be a problem? I have a lot of gear and two PC's, mixer, ai pump for TT, all kinds of gizmos and my neighbor, a general contrctor, said I shouldn't worry about it; that I couldn't hit 15 amps if a tried. I'm not so sure about that. Also, very unsettling to me (although we live in Tampa, the lightning capitol of the world), was that the hot water heater breaker tripped at some point and all we ran today was the dishwasher. rubbing temples, Jonathan Catuccio aka Dr. Cilantro

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Whatever comments you want to make. I am going to learn about some of these records and keep listening. Interesting to know if they have any monetary value but that's secondary. The liner notes of the Van Cliburn lp are very interesting; I'll have to read more about 6'4" sandy haired native of Kilgore, Texas. Pretty neat how he captured the Russians' hearts, playing Tchaichovsky no less. Dr. C

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I use Mozilla on my kompooter machine which is down during our move to our first house and until I rebuild it as an AMD64 rig.(yes on both counts!) I use three tweaks in the about:config (type into web address bar and hit enter): network.http.pipelining = set to TRUE network.http.proxy.pipelining = set to TRUE network.http.pipelining.maxrequest = set to 20-30 These make Firefox even faster and it already smokes IE6. The problem is that even with cookies enabled, my wife's laptop will not let me login to the Klipsch forums; using Firefox. IE6 works fine. Kinda stumped but wanted to give you all a heads up on the speed boost regardless. And FF's tabbed browsing is just heaven (especially since this laptop is having issues maximizing panes that sit in the taskbar....I have tried and tried but they just depress and you can't maximize any window...argghhh!) Dr. C Have a musical day!

It always amazes how easy it is to do good business yet many companies fall flat on their face in this regard. What Colon said is so try; especially in this day & age where companies can hide behind an email address and an 800 number. Glad you had that exprience; reminds me of Kensington, the PC component company. 5 year warranty no questions asked whatsoever, and great products to boot! have a great weekend everyone! Dr. C

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I loved my Sherwood S-2000 mono tuner. Killer deal, but when integrating it into my PC via Sunfire preamp and loaded down the preamp and monoblocks so I went with a SS modded Sansui. This situation was probably due to my preamp the sunfire classic which "passed on" load right through to the PC of whatever source was hooked up (except the phono stage). DC

Thanks. I will list the rest, search the archives and the web, and try to learn something. I don't know anything about classical music. I need to list these for my records so I thought it would be fun to catch some comments on stuff. I listened to Rhapsody In Blue on shaded dog (RCA?) last night somewhat low volume, or so I thought....the dynamics on these LP's blow me away! DR. C

First of all I know I won't be able to top the length of a Max G post but here I go. I have been picking up various classical records for a while now and I am curious. If there are any good forums or websites you would recommend please suggest them here. Any comments welcome, if anything I have is worth even commenting on I know your up late enjoying the music Max!!! btw Are all the grey label Columbia 6eye's mono? Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue - Fielder/Boston Pops (Living Stereo LSC-2367) Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue: An American In Paris - Leonard Bernstein, New York Phillharmonic, & The Columbia Symphony (Columbia Masterworks ML5413) Rodgers & Hammerstein - Sound Of Music - Columbia Masterworks KOS2020) Melachrino Strings & Orchestra - Moods In Music: Music For Dining - Living StereoLSP-1000 John Williams & Eugene Ormandy - Two Favorite Guitar Concertos - Columbia Masterworks ML6234 Pachelbel Kanon & Other Baroque Favorites - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - London FFRR CS6206 New Year's Eve In Vienna: Vienna Phillharmonic w/ Willi Boskovsky - Blue Danube & Other Favorites - London FFRR LDR10001-2 Mozart Piano Concerto 27 in b flat//Piano Sonata 2 in a major - Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR STS15062 Bach: The Four Suites for Orchestra - Yehudi Menuhin w/ Bath Festival Orchestra - Seraphim SIB6085 Pachelbel Kanon-Albinoni Adagio - Richard Hickox Orchestra - London FFRR STS15441 Mozart - Piano Concerto 15 in b flat//Symphony 36 in C - Leonard Bernstein & Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR Mono CM9499 Beethoven - Third Piano Concerto, Op. 37, Fantasy For Piano, Chorus & Orchestra, Op. 80 - Leonard Bernstein & New York Phillharmonic - Columbia Masterworks ML6016 MONO Andrius Kuprevicius - Performs Piano Works Of Lithuanian Composers - Advent AK3790 Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1 - Van Cliburn (piano?) & Kiril Kondrashin (conductor) - RCA Victor Red Seal LM2252 Franck Symphony In D Minor - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5391 Russian Sailors Dance (Khachturian, Smetena, Brahms) - Eugene Ormandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5223 Liszt: Concertos NOS. 1&2 - Philippe Entremont w/ E. ORmandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. MS6071 Struass Waltzes - Melachrino Orchestra - RCA Living Stereo LSP1757 Mozart Symphonies 25 & 29 - Neville Mariner & Acad. Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - London Treasury 411 717-1LT Haydn (Concerto in D major for cello & orchestra, Opus 101) & Bocccherini (Concerto in b flat major for Cello & Orchestra - Pierre Fournier w/ The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Munchinger - DECCA FFRR LXT2968 Brahms: A German Requiem (Variations On a Theme By Haydn) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - London FFRR OS26599 Pavarotti - King Of The High C's - London FFRR OS26373 The Great Pavarotti London FFRR OS26510 Mantovani & His Orch. - Operetta Memories - London FFSS PS202 Scheherazade - Leopold Stowkowski w/ London Symph. Orchestra (Rimsky-Korsakov) - London MONO PM55002 Brahms - Violin Concerto - Heifetz, Chicago Symphony, Reiner - RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1903 Great Sacred Choruses (Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, Stainer) - Robert Shaw Chorale - RCA Victor LM1117 Schubert - Symph. 8_B minor "Unfinished" - Paul Kletzki & Royal Phillharmonic - Angel S35779 Dvorak - From The New World Symphony 5 in E minor - Danish National Orch. & Nicolai Malko - RCA Victor Bluebird Classics LBC1005 Mario Lanza - Romberg: The Student Prince - LSC 2339 A. Vivaldi - Concerto For 2Horns & Strings In F Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In C Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In D Major - Collegium Musicum Of Paris Under Direction of Roland Douatte - Nonesuch H71018 Beethoven - Concerto for Violin & Orch., 2 Romances for Violin 7 Orch in F - Susanne Lautenbacher w/ conductors Hubert Reichert & Curt Cremer Tchaikovsky's Greatest Ballets Vol. 1 (Suite From The Nutcracker) - Eugene Ormandy & The Phil. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1974) ARL 1-0027 Tchaikovsky: Patheique Symphony - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks MONO ML6089 The Singing Stradivarius - Mishel Piastro & the Longines Symphonette - LW142 Andres Segovia - A Bach Recital - Everest 3261 Brahms Symphony 4 Academic Festival Overture - Stokowski & New Phill. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1967) ARL1-0719 Brahms (Hungarian Dances) & Dvorak (Slavonic Dances) - Bamber Symphony Orchestra - VOX STPL511.240 Brahms Symphony 4 in E Minor/Opus 98 - Vladimir Golschmann & Vienna State Opera Orchestra - Vanguard SRV188 A. Dvorak - Piano Quintet In A Major Opus 81 - Chigi Quintet (Quinetto Chigiano) (my great aunt Vinnie was married to one of them) - London FFRR LLP202 A. Segovia w/ Quintetto Chigiano - Quintet Op. 143 (Castelnuovo-Tedesco) [Villa Lobos: Two Studies, Scriabin: PRelude, Haug: Alba (Legenda), Haug: Postlude, Llobet: Lo Mestre) - DECCA DL9832 Theatre Music w/a French Touch - Lichel Legrand & Orchestra - Col. Masterworks CB15 Not For Sale Tony Mottola - Guitar ...Paris - Command RS 877 SD Andre Previn - Sound Stage - Columbia MONO CS8958 Chopin - Polonaises - Alfred Brendel (piano) - Cardinal (Vanguard) VCS-10058 Stokowski Showpieces For Orchestra - London Phase4 - R224497 (Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel, Byrd, Bach, Mussorgosky, Handel, Elgar, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Wagner, Rachmaninov, Duparc, Clarke, Debussy) Bolero, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Verdi, & Suppe - Zubin Mehta & The LA Phillharmonic - London FFRR CS7132 Dr. C

Thanks mate! Had some tonight with some Juevos Rancheros.....hmmmm. Dr. C

I have for sale: 37GB Raptor runs great; going with Samsung RAID for HTPC - 70$ SOLD 7ft. Monster USB cable w/ ferrite cores on each end - 30$ shipped Buffalo Tech. BH5 512mb 3200 (1 stick) At DD400 you may be able to get close to 2-2-2> - 100$ shipped Kensington USB 2.0 external 4 port hub (self-powered): 15$ shipped Hp 3745 printer; brand new. Combo deal from newegg.com - 40$ shipped (4) EH KT-88 power tubes - like new, all same bias, broken in for one month 85$ shipped (1) VTI audio rack 4 shelves, black, with spikes (pads for wood floors included), like new 225$ shipped CC89259 Speaker Wires (double run for bi-wire 7ft) - 175$ shipped Dell 1900FP LCD monitor - no dead pixels, excellent condition 300$ shipped 25FT. Phoenix Gold DVI cable - 45$ shipped DFI Ultra Infinity (mb w/ box/manual/driver cd/floppy) - 55$ shipped JVC Super VHS ET VCR - static playback; a band on screen. needs repair/parts...very good chance just a pro cleaning is needed but I we are getting a DVD/VCR combo 20$ shipped As easy as it easy to make a gallery I just don't have the time because of the move and summer school. There are some pics here in the Audio Gear section: www.catuccio.net/geekroom Please email for any particular pics if you need them. Email at jcatuccio@tampabay.rr.com

Good info here. To keep it simple: MP3 (lossy) CONVERTS FLAC & MAC (lossless) COMPRESS Everyone should check out J. River Media Center. Secure rip was tested on hydrogenaudio.org? to be a better performer than EAC. This program does it right. You can use Media Server to play files over wireless or use UPnP Server to play a stream to your Audiotron. Check their website and the forum there; the support is outstanding. It is the fastest handler of large libraries and it supports a ton of formats and a lot of lossless ones like FLAC and Monkey's Audio. My setup is to archive (storing as compressed lossless) and also have all the audio in Ogg Vorbis Q6 for my portable. Then you have the cd, a digital copy of the cd, and lossy audio on your portable (backpacks for Nueros audio player are perfect for this). There are some Seagate 250 for 80$ at Tiger Direct now, and you can get a 400gb Seagate off Ebay w/ 5 warranty for 215$. The 320gb Western Digital was floating around for 125$ somewhere, mot likely after rebate. Dr. C

Nothing wrong with the remastered version of The Last Waltz...I can't to test it on my new HTPC setup. DR. C

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. This mount was made in Italy; I can't remember the name but I think it may be etched in somewhere. We are moving soon so I'll try to find out. It's a great model because it makes leveling so easy with the built in points. I used Home Depot brackets last time but both wall mounts I have made/used really saved my ***. I could not walk in our old audio room unless I tiptoed (2nd floor); the floors were that bad. After the home jobbie I could literally jump up and down and slam into the floor w/o skipping a groove. Saves you rack space but you have to maybe deal with a few wires creeping up the wall; WAF??? I am using a chincy piece of MDF painted black on top of the wall mount shelf in order to use Vibrapods. I use the stock feet of the HW-19 and no mat on the platter. You can do it on the cheap at Home Depot; they have some big old brackets there. Kind of fugly but paint and they'll get the job done. Slap a piece of MDF on top and your set. Add something fancy or some Vibrapods and spin it. ???? why's this not working? www.catuccio.net/IMG_0172 & www.catuccio.net/IMG_0171 DC

When we get into the new house I am going to put a 37" LCD over the rack which will be lowered to half its height and widened to twice its width. the TT will be wall mounted over the rack beneath the TV. There will be no curtains : ) DC

Ah we do have an attic I forgot. Got get a ladder to egt up in though and I haven't been up there yet. Indoor would be easiest for me but I would love to put something in the attic or on the roof. Thaks for all the recs; I'll take a look at them. DC