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Invidiosulus has pointed out to me (he is younger and still has brain cells) that the National Folk Festival had Mingo Saldivar (the Conjunto player.) The polka player was John "Stanky" Stankovic of Stanky and the Coal Miners. I do, however, remember enought to really say it was all good music. Marvel

RME cards are packaged for sale with Steinberg's Nuendo multitrack production software. The cards pace almost no load on the pci bus and have excellent convertors. If you intend to have files at other than 16 bit, 44.1 or less, the player will probably make a difference. I have a 24bit/88.2 file that Winamp won't play back. Windows Media Player thinks it needs a new codec, Ultraplayer loads the file but will not play it and gives no error. I can play the file in a straight audio app, like Goldwave. SOundforge probably would too. Samplitude 7 (another multitrack app) will load and play the file back (even to a 16 bit soundcard. Marvel

Is this like the story of dropping a banjo and an accordian from a ten story building and asking which one hits the ground first? The answer is: Who cares! Pass the Leinenkugel, my stein is empty! Marvel

Dean, The link I provided above has three of the 5751 model for $14 each. Now you know Marvel

Of course some of the weddings in Madison would play Zappa. UW is still living in the 60s. But somewhere between Madison and Milwaukee is another country for sure. I kinda meant it as a joke, but there are similarities. It's easier to hear when you have demonstrations of the different styles side by side. It was funny seeing this guy who normally plays cahunta (sp?) music groovin' to an Irishman playing a concertina. Marvel

You can get great case selections from: www.directron.com MB and some other prices are a little high. I have got several cases from them though and depending on what you get they are built like tanks. I have an older case that I am almost afraid to move because it is so flimsy. The one I got for my dual athlon is solid. They have also had most of the same cases that alienware sells. My younger son has one of the "hydraulic" cases, the one with the front that slides down. For steel cases I like the antec models. They are very good. Marvel

Anyone in the Orlando area may know of this place. I found them on the web one night. They have Telefunkens for $30. http://www.vacuumtubesinc.com Stock comes and goes as the suypply changes. I haven't purchased anything form them so I don't know their quality of service. Marvel

Rosemary Clooney w/Ellington Can't remember the title David "Fathead" Newman (awesome through LaScalas. The horns do justice to the sax)Album: Mr Gentle, Mr. Cool There is other music I listen to, but these two come to mind. Marvel

Cool! You will actually find great similarities between polkas, celtic music and mexican dance music. At the National Folk Festival held in Chattanooga a few years ago, I attended a workshop that had a real polka player, the kind who uses a 'stomach steinway', to a Mexican American playing a smaller squeeze box to John Williams (the only name I remember, and no, not the star wars film composer). He did a lot on a concertina. The similarities were quite striking. The Mexican American said that a lot of their music came to them from German immigrants, which sure made sense when you heard the music. It was all very good. Anyone ever go to a wedding in Wisconsin, where they would hire out a hall and have a polka band for the wedding reception? Wow! Everybody dances, form little kids to the old laies. What a blast. Marvel

Current redbook cd technology has a wider dynamic range than most lp recordings, because of the compression that had to be used when cutting the masters for vinyl. One way around that, mention on the Klipsch forums, is to use an expander when recording the lp. The units by dbx give wonderful results, and were made just for this, as well as for the dbx discs that were published for a short time. Using something like that would allow you to utilize the dynamic range that 24 bit reocring would give, and the 88.1k sampling rate would give you the sonic detail you want. Marvel

AF, Have a look at the pdf I posted on the first page of Dave's post "A modest hypothesis on the 16 bit question." I don't know how to post the link to it. It is a pdf that explains a lot of the spec for DVD-A. And yes, many sound cards can do the 24 bit/88.2k recording. I believe his Card Delux will, as well as my M-Audio Audiophile 2696 card. The cost is just over $100 and up. Mostly up to get a good ADC. This would work well if you just wanted to play back from the PC, but I think it gets a bit tricky to put the file on a DVD. I don't have a DVD burner to try, but have considered borrowing a usb one we have at work. Marvel

Our church does all chant and I would love to do that with the guys who do the singing. The main cantor has a beautiful voice, but the rest are all just regular joes. When he isn't there, they don't sing. I would think that shape note singing would really benefit from a room that has good acoustics. Your idea would put you right there in the performance for sure. Used to belong to a church that put on big music productions. One of the members would record it with two pzm mics on a sony video deck. He had made mic preamps for it. The sound was very good considering his budget. Glad the info can be of use. I also found a place today that explained how to record AC3 encoded on a regular CD-R that you could play back in your DVD player to test out mixes on the cheap, instead of doing a test burn on DVD. Kinda neat. Still would need the encoder though. Marvel

Dave, I found this article that has tables listing what can be done in the DVD-A spec. It a not very detailed, which means I can understand it. You can do 2 channel at 44.1, 88.2, 96, all the way to 192. Surround is more restrictive. Have a read and let me know if it helps. I don't want to lead down rabbit trails. This article isn't the newest, but it explains a lot. Marvel DVD-A.pdf

I waste most of my money on software I rarely use, and just make enough off to pay for it. One of those is Adobe Premiere, which I like a lot, but one of its weak points is audio. Sonic Foundry just released Vegas 4, with unlimited audio tracks, great color correction tools built in, easier keyframing, etc. Plus, and here is the interesting part-- you can do 5.1 sound, at 24/96. For a little more money, you can even encode AC3 from it. I've not liked their interface too much, but this is cool. Audio with Premiere is still a bit lame, even in ver. 6.5. Just thought is was interesting since Dave actually does recording, etc. Marvel

The Audiophile 2496 also has midi out, which is pretty irrelevant for the purposes here. I guess we tend to like what we've got, but mine has worked extremely well. Certainly not like a crapblaster. Marvel

A lot of recording has been done at 48k, but mostly earlier before filters got better. I also know lots of people who record on their pc (big studios in fact), so massive rfi in the box isn't always a problem. Many also still record at 44.1k, since they are going to put it on a CD in the end. They use 24bit though, so they can initially get a wider dynamic range. I think it is foul that the DV format records audio at 16 bit/48k. You can go lower to 32k, but the only benefit is four audio tracks. For dialogue you won't really hear much of a difference. Dave's recording at 88.2k has gained ground in the recording commmunity because the dithering is easier going from 88.2 to 44.1. Going 96k or all the way to 192k just takes up too much space. I know folks doing up to 100 tracks on their pc system. Getting drives to stream that at 192k gets a bit hard. Marvel

SCSI actually has less overhead than IDE. However, there are IDE RAID controllers out now, and controllers and drives that are 133Mbs. Craig, Most fan noise is from the CPU fans and not the PS fan. I have an Enermax in my dual Athlon, but the two CPU fans are too loud. I can't even tell there are two fans in the PS unit. Folks I know who use a computer for a DAW (digital audio workstation) end up putting them on the other side of a wall, with just the monito mouse and keyboard where they work. They can hear spiders on the walls that way. My younger son's new PIV (single cpu) is pretty quiet. I am in the process of building balanced i/o for the Audiophile 2496, and getting a video/mouse/keyboard extender to move my system out of my editing suite (read -- small corner off the bedroom). That's why I still record on my 8 track ADAT, as it is much quieter than the pc. The KVM works over Cat5, so the system can be a few hundred feet away. You could do water cooling if you wanted to, but the easiest way is to move it. Marvel

It could be that particular M-Audio card (more of a consumer version, although higher numbers of sales can be good). There is a company in Vienna, that uses the M-Audio Super DAC for playback in its system they have for creating synphonic sample libraries. They had something like 30 engineers working around the clock to record, edit and build the libraries. You can get them preloaded on hard drives, but the cost is several thousand dollars. If you were an arranger doing movies sound tracks it would be so cool. The samples are really good. I know it sounds like I am defending them (yup, guess so). The card deluxe is a very good card, with good convertors on it, but you would certainly up the price. My Audiophile 2496 will pass DTS and whatnot through the spdif if I remember right, which could be fed into an external decoder. There's so many options and ways to empty the wallet! And I have to correct myself -- I mentioned digidesign as the maker of the 896 firewire box, but it is MOTU (Mark of the Unicorn), and the M-Audio firewire i/o 4 in/4 out, will be available sometime in April. It is a model 410, but no other designation yet. Just remember -- the good thing about standards is that there are so many of them. Marvel

kjohnsonhp, Dowload the demo of CoolEdit Pro from the Syntrillium site. It is fully functional for 30 days, and will do 24/96. Many of the demos or other free ware stuff will not, even if the card will. Goldwave only lets you up the sample rate, but the bit depth stays the same. Lower priced versions of Quartz Audio do likewise. Dave, What is the MBS-3 (showing my ignorance again)? I have a Tascam DA-30 MKII dat that I really like. Can't tell there is anything between what I play and what I here back. I know people are dumping ADATs like crazy, but it's paid for and still works great. I don't use it enough is all. Marvel

Dave, What kind of ribbons do you use? I admit to only having some inexpensive AKG condesnors (CS1000s), and older dynamics (EV RE16), but they have fulfilled my needs so far. Had an acquaintance quite a few years ago who used a Beyer Ribbon for a live vocal my. It sounded just wonderful with her voice. I still want an 8 i/o for firewire, but the drivers/support for the Digi 896 under Windows is very bad, and the new Presonus Firestation says they only have XP drivers (I'm using Win2k). M-Audio sorta has released a 4 in firewire box, the M410, but it isn't on their web site although dealers have it advertised. Duh! Marvel ps I do music work with an ADAT XT20, although I am wanting to move soley over to a DAW based setup.

kenratboy, Attached is a pdf with a short explanation and a graphic. It's easier to see when drawn out. It really only gets weird when you start adding values that are way different, like three 16 ohm speakers and five 8 ohm. Figuring that out would be more of a challenge. Having all the same values makes it much easier. If you follow through and do this, let us know how it works out. Cutting the front baffle would sure get tedious. Marvel speaker array.pdf

Nice to see a set of real plans that I can add to my collection. Thanks for posting them. Marvel

Follow through a step at a time: Four 8 ohm speakers in series = 32 ohms Do that again and you have another set at 32 ohms. Look at each set as one speaker now, 32 ohms each. Put those two in parallel and you have one speaker of 16 ohms. If you had four sets @ 32 ohms and put them in parallel, you would have an 8 ohm speaker array, holding 16 speakers. I could send you a drawing. Getting all in phase would be fun though. Marvel

Tony, I apologize for blaming you for those drawings (much bowing and groveling going on!!). When I got info from you I had also been scouring the net. I just found the link in an old folder of favorites, to the site that had them. The site is no longer around (http://www.electric.org/ls.html). But the story is pretty much the same, a friend had done the drawings for this guy, the more I recall, from some sketches and measurements. Did you ever get to measure the freq. response with the added two pieces on yours (or did you do that). I do still have your drawings somewhere as well. Others here may recall that djk made many sets of LS bass bins. He had jigs made to cut all the pieces accurately and quickly. I had the privilege of hearing some a few (too many) years ago. The hardest part is the roof of the doghouse (or part that points toward you). Marvel Marvel

The LS1.zip file is not exactly correct. The access hole is shown as a 7inch on a side piece. Couldn't get the woofer out of that cabinet very well. I think this set was done by a friend of Tony Reed's (wherever he is now), who took measurements off a real set of LaScalas. Middle set is the German ones in metric with previously stated errors. Looks like the same with the third set. Marvel