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Justin, For acoustic music, just about any of the "Dawg" music albums would sound great. David Grisman has been pumping these out for close to 30 years now. I have an early one with David Grisman and Stefan Grapelli (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). The newer ones are just as good. Tony Rice on guitar. Way cool music. Also, the music of Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor should sound awesome with that combo you have at the moment. I've also got a release of Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington whish is nice. Marvel

Until you said Macintosh it was easy. Spend $8 and buy a new one. It probably has little platic tabs that you have to flex to get it open. Depending on the design, taking the top off will result in all the keys falling off. Hate it when that happens. If it uses rubber dome technology, there are individual silcone rubber cups (inverted)under each key or a single silicone rubber mat with the domes all molded in. The latter is the easy kind as you can just wash the top side off with no problem. Then clean the keys so they will move freely and reassemble. Marvel

Tom, We just downloaded the Redhat 9 ISOs at work. Now they recommend at least 400-450Mhz cpu for it. I'm working on my BeOS box for music playback, since it screams on a 266. Marvel

I found some site where a guy has two bass horns that are the base for his bed, with Oris horns for the mids/highs. Michael Christs horn collection is pretty neat too, with beautiful veneer work. Marvel

....horns! http://www.avantgarde-usa.com/basshorns.html I think the basshorn module in the middle is about $20k. I mean it is a two channel setup. Marvel

Make sure you download the newer drivers for the card from the M-Audio site. They fixed some bass management problems over the CD that came with the card. Justin, I was looking at the Anandtech forum talking about this card, and some were having touble with the latency when recording. They may actually have to up the buffer size instead of lowering it. It doesn't make sens, but the same was true for the Audiophile 2496. My latency on my Audiophile is very low. Didn't know if you had tied the line inputs, to see if they were off the wall or not. I don't know what the control panel is like for the Revolution so I can't help directly. Marvel

According to an old book on recording, "Modern Recording Techniques" by Robert Runstein, studios use a playback volume of close to 85 db. Due to the Fletcher-Munson curves, this allows music to be played a little louder and a little quieter without much apparent change in the eq of the recording. I think Invidiosulus said they taught 90 db at Full Sail in Orlando. Then again, recording engineers are listening to music playback at those volumes all the time. Over time the high volume will damage your hearing. Marvel

Bruinsrme, I had an acquaintance who worked for Bell South in Miami, doing line work. He climbed up a pole one day, the pole being enveloped in some kind of climbing vine. He reached up with some tool to open a box above him and a couple hundred palmetto bugs who were nesting in the box fell out on top of him. He said he couldn't get to the ground fast enough. They were in his shirt and pants, hair. He was smashing them all the way down. Needless to say, he took the rest of the day off. First to go home and shower and change clothes. He has since change careers. Marvel

TPG, Thanks. I've got good dual supplies laying around. I could use the balanced in to unbalanced out, but can figure it out. I've got a couple other schematics somewhere, and WOULD like it to be pretty good. I do multitrack audio work, blah, blah blah... As many other projects as I have going on right now, it may never get built. What schematic program did you use? I have been using the free version of Cadsoft's Eagle layout and editor. I used to work with a guv'mint contractor, and we had the pricey stuff, but my wallet is much thinner and my needs a bit less. Marvel

Moon, Thanks. Even though I am behind the guitar, the Taylor is a lot nicer to look at. Trespasser_Guy, You must have a schematic for the line drivers, etc. Could you post a copy? The only thing I've not liked about my M-Audio AP 2496 is the unbalanced i/o on it. My mixer has balanced I/o and would make it easier for me to located my pc in another room (and get rid of the fan noise). Marvel

It wasn't really a blunderbus, it was my new compression driver and horn. Honest! Marvel

The spec for spdif really is for short distances, it just keeps the signal digital. Optical would work better but most of the toslink cables are plastic fiber, and won't go the distance either. If you can get someone to terminate the connectors onto glass fiber, it can work for pretty long distances (and no interference). M-audio makes an spdif to optical convertor (bi directional) that sells for about $60. Marvel

You might not be able to get lead shot, just bismuth or steel. Marvel

A lot of Alesis gear is made in China. A lot of Logitech gear is made in China. They could both be buying the same product with thier own names on them. Alesis blub on this hardware: http://www.alesis.com/news/press/proactive.html Alesis does own Numark (or the other way around), the dj equipment maker. Marvel

I may be ugly but I ain't stupid! No offense taken. If that were the case, I guess it should have been Marveline. I dug out this old photo I had (from around 1972), and replaced my pic on our id page at work. Most people never look at it, but it got a few comments. Maybe I better change this one out now. Don't know why I ever liked having my hair long either. It is too much work. There used to be a country artist named Faron Young. While working in tv news in Memphis a few years back, we did an interview with him. He had started wearing his hair long and had an earring, until during a show some guy started winking at him a whole lot. He changed his mind. Marvel

Colin, I spent over an hour at home listing all my reasons for being patriotic, but still opposed to this present excursion into Iraq. All without insults or name calling. But I let it rest, intending to go back and edit and tweak more before posting. And as if you were reading my mind, you have explained quite well the whole reason for clear discourse. My wife and I have spent hours trying to gather information from news sources all over the world. The information is vastly different than what we get in the U.S. alone. Each media outlet has its own intentions, so the truth probably lies somewhere in between. See, wasn't that easy? Thanks, Marvel ps Can I put on some Dixie Chicks now? pps Just because my avatar shows me with long hair, it was over 25 years ago. I can only dream of that much hair now.

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