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  1. Mp3s are not cd quality. There are lossless compression standards. If you need to save space use mp3. If you want cd quality use lossless. http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ It really does work. Take a look.
  2. Ray Garrison, What do you think of Monkey's Audio? Would it being lossless be more like listening to the actual cd than a mp3? Except you don't have to deal with different levels cd's are recorded at? http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
  3. You need one of the RCA digital audio(brown) cable, 2 stereo minijack to L&R RCA, 3 if you want to take stereo into your live card. Run the brown digital cable from the live's s/pdif out to the digital in on your receiver. If you don't have a s/pdif on your live you will want one. They sell digital in/out brackets if ness. The digital pass thru gives you the best AC3 and DTS surround, your receiver does them better. Use the minijack to RCA adapters to connect the front speakers to the left and right analog in on the receiver. Use the mixer's balance to check left and right. Hook the rear the same way. If you are careful with your speaker placement you'll have surround gaming effects thru the analog inputs.
  4. It is easy enough to rip a cd to wave then compress to MP3's of whatever rate and have a friend do the a b thing. Your ears and the Klipsch may be better than you thought. Besides, it'd be a ***** to go thru and rerip everything and then find out that ambiophonics is cool and you need that discarded information. http://www.ambiophonics.org/index.html#WhatIs
  5. Check the connector to see how many conductors there are. Most are mono and have a high noise enviro mic. You can get creative and upgrade your cord and drivers or Shock yourself at the price of quality pro stuff.
  6. With Symon you can have up to 30 partitions and select any 4 of these partitions to boot as your system. You don't need a dedicated partition, as with OS2 boot loader, Ranish Partition Manager, or XOSL that uses Ranish as a partition tool. Symon runs from and saves the orignal partition configuration in the boot sector and doesn't need a partition of its' own. Partition Magic needs to boot into dos, then loads your system from info on that dos partition, and if anything craps in that partition you're royally screwed. A problem with most partition managers is that they see unknown file blocks as 1 of the 4 partitions that most systems can see. With 1 partition for your partition manager and the sequence of partitions can limit you to just 1 or 2 partitions per operating system. Symon lets you control which partitions are seen and lets your order them as you like. You can have private partitions that are only assessable thru a password protected boot menu. I have had problems on systems with the old Phoenix bios' w/PPros, but no trouble with modern bios. Like I said before, Symon will let you do things with partitions you didn't know you wanted to.
  7. Catknight, Did you try selecting the joint stereo setting in Cdex? I didn't get that one figured out. I think it has something to do with audio frames or something like ProLogic decoding. Something about preserving the differences for a rear channel and a center channel from the similarities? I didn't get it working to see what they meant. That's when a lossless exact copy sounded easier.
  8. Don't touch with a bb gun. Do a Google search for aviation headsets.
  9. What do you expect to be done here that you can't find out there? Go ahead, share your experience, but I ain't no fool to be collecting someone's burglary charge. I don't mean to be rude, but I'd rather be blunt about legal things.
  10. This kind of hard to explain. I have plugged the purple(rear) minijack into the front speakers from the sound card and the green to the rear. Then I run the rear sats from the sub to the sats besides my monitor, and the main from the sub to my rear sats. The reason behind this is the surround control can bring the volume to equal the main, but they are further away. By reversing the surround and main I can reduce the sats closest to me, to match the sats farther away, then the main controls the overall volume of the sub, front and rear.
  11. If you plan on reripping your cds, why not use a lossless recording instead of mp3 that discards some of the detail? If you have the room, make perfect copies of your cds so you don't have to do it again. MMJB supports .ape files, Monkey's Audio is a lossless compression format. Music Match Jukebox supports and can rip to .ape files.
  12. The power handling of the 4.1 and 2.1 sats are the same. They can probably handle more than the 60 watts rated of the 4.1's. The watt ratings you're looking at are the amp's rms watts. Hey Dan, Any chance of getting something like a service manual, you know? Like Sam's Tech. A .pdf of some schematics. Even a circuit-cad file or something?
  13. Did you do the dual install on one partition thing, or did you install on a multi-boot, multi-partitioned drive? If you installed 2000 over 98, it's suggested that you save your data and fresh install the 2000. If you want to boot between 98 and 2000 try out Symon, http://symon.da.ru/ The control this program gives you over your MBR and partition tables is well worth the effort to learn.
  14. One of my employers gave me the full ver. of Real Player, it will rip at 320k. Then I set up Cdex and used the Lame encoder to rip. I was trying to figure out the use of normalization and joint stereo when I ran across Monkey's Audio, http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ At this point I'm using Cdex to extract to .wav files then converting to .ape files. For play back I'm using WinAmp with the Monkey's Audio plug-in. The guy's at Monkey's Audio forum say good things about Exact Audio Copy, Music Match Jukebox, Nero Burning ROM, and lame encoders to load MP3 cd's and MP3 players.
  15. I have just returned a Sony ear-bud, and am using the Koss "plug" and they are going back. Trying to get a seal to get the bass response bothers my ears, are unstable in my ears, and are a pain in the *** when someone speaks to me. (you have to remove them to hear even with mute, then you have to reset them in your ear) Drag your-self down to RadioShack and listen to the Pro35. These have the same drivers as the Koss PortaPro's, the SportaPro's, Kcs35 ear clips. These are the titanium diaphragm with neodymium magnets. The $15 KCX-Pro's are the same as the Pro35's, and all Koss have a lifetime warranty W/$10 handling charge. Once you buy these for $15 to $30, you will have to spend $150 to get a appreciable improvement in sound quality. The biggest complaint is too much bass and highs, and to inexpensive for $500 Senheiser Freaks to take seriously.
  16. Hey Paragon, . If you are into classical, have Ambisonic recordings and the software decoders come to your attn? There are 100's (maybe) of performances recorded using fancy mics and mixing techniques. http://www.stanford.edu/~mleese/Ambisonic/ You can loose a few hours here.
  17. There is a TV plug-in for Win-Amp that works generically with several cards.
  18. A tool called an impact wrench, that anybody with a decent tool box has, loosens the screw with just a tap. Set speaker on a folded towel to protect finish.
  19. Just take the remains to your local auto parts or hardware store and let the clerk match them up. Fastco has stainless or coated and will look at you like you're crazy if you expect they're going to write an invoice for 4 screws.(donuts work)
  20. Anybody use Netscape anymore? I can't keep it open. I open 6 or 8 windows, following 2 or 3 threads, then "CRASH", all shut down. Is this because Netscape has lousy programers or is it because Microsoft went into the browser business and they have the source code? I will probably be using the . WIndows Media Player WI_____ M____ P_____ . under new versions of windows after it has been optimized by The Bills' engineers. I may be stubborn, but I ain't smart. So I'll use WinAmp while I still can.
  21. Yes, $40 and you get hardware decoding with s-video, composite video, downmixed stereo, and AC3 pass thru. Kingmax DVD Decoder Card and dongle. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223741010 Takes a load off the cpu.
  22. Send an e-mail to contact the education and government link in the lower left. You should be able use your student status to leverage extra value. Explain how your university project requires a cluster and they will usually give you the discounts. Is it true some of these students in the dorms tap into the internet2, that us non-university types can't get?
  23. As far as using cdr's for long term storage, that don't work for me. As soon as I handle them a few times I start messin' them up, scratches, fingerprints, bad florescent lights, too close to the window, etc... I've seen people who use tape backup, set it up, turn it on, let it do its' thing. But I wouldn't want to hang around till it finished. I know you're able to reuse tapes, but most tape users have boxes of tapes around. You can get 60 gig drives for less than $200. How much a tape drive and 60 gigs of tape cost? The main point of backups are to get the backup off site. To do that you can make the image to tape or drive, and carry to secure storage, or have backup over broadband. A hard drive on a friend's machine, or backup to other remote location is easier to keep up after the first backup/image. If you save a ghost image of d: it will have all your files and data as when you made the image. If you want just a few gig storage that you can play on any fast connect, you can keep 3 gig on, http://myplay.winamp.com/ You get a lot faster stream from them than you can get from any internet radio or Real Audio stream.
  24. XF1013, . It sounds as if the splash screen has a stereo .wav, then doesn't select the DTS as source. Did you get a operating manual? If not you can download the .pdf's to get the details on selecting things like large and small, or stereo to 5.1 or 5.0. KBlair is the one for an update about the XDTS80, as he actually bought one of the 3 piece mobile theatre sets flushed by ubid over the last few months. Let me know how it works out?
  25. Check your ram and cpu in a working system, especially the cpu with no posts.
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