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After reading a Wired News article about a company that gives away free iPods, I did some research. Seems that freeipods.com is an advertising company and makes money by pointing potential customers to different businesess. They then send out ipods as rewards. I decided to sign up for Infone on my cell phone through the web site. It doesn't cost anything to sign up, the first 5 calls are free, and there is never a monthly fee. I figure it can't hurt to sign up if there is a free ipod possible. Well now all I need is 5 people to sign up through my link, and I will get a free ipod. Anybody who signs up through me is that much closer to their own ipod! I urge anybody who is skeptical to read the Wired News article that I have linked to above. I kind of feel shady for using this great message board for something like this, but we're talking a free ipod here!! Please click here to sign up under my name. Thanks.

Check to see if the radio station has an online streaming version of the station. If it does then the best way would be to digitally record it using something like Rotal Recorder. That will record anything that is played through the sound card. I use Total Recorder all the time to record the Essential Mix off of the BBC. It maked perfect recordings that are as close to CD quality as you can get.

I am interested in building a tube headphone amp, and havn't found to much on the net. I am in college and broke, so I need something VERY inexpensive. I found this amp but don't know what to look for. Is it any good? I will be running Sennheiser HD570's, unless somebody knows of a better pair of headphones for under $100. Will this amp work for the HD570's with 64 ohm impedance? If anybody has any other ideas of good, inexpensive headphone amps let me know. Thanks.

Don't forget about an Eico HF-81! I love the EL-84 sound. The only other tubes I have heard are the 6v6 and EL-34. The eico just doesn't have as much power as an EL-34 or 7591, but with RF-7's who needs an extra 10 watts. I listen to a lot of classic rock with 92db/w speakers and it gets plenty loud. I'm sure you would be happy with a 299c though!

The RSW subs are not passive subs, because they have built in amplifiers. They do however use passive radiators that eliminate port noise. To my knowledge passive radiators will not make the sound any tighter than ported subs, because they are doing essentially the same thing. Non-ported subs that don't use a passive radiator are going to produce tighter more controlled bass, but not as deep. Correct me if I'm wrong!

I don't understand why a $1500 system is being compared to a $500-$800 system. Either will sound good, with the the Klipsch probably sounding slightly better. For the price difference, there seems no reason to even mention the bose. There are plenty of small speaker systems available that will be cheaper and perform better than those bose. Just a few names are JBL/Infinity, Polk, Velodyne, Energy... Also if this is going to be mainly for 2 channel music I wouldn't go with small satelite speakers. If you could take the $1000-$1500 on a 2 channel system you are going to be much happier with the quality. And later on down the road you can add speakers for home theater. Those HTIB type speakers are going to do very well with DVD's but 2 channel music will have a much lacking midrange.

Thanks for all the replys. I am on a budget because I am going back to school in a few weeks and need to save money, so I can't afford too much right now. The zerostat isn't too expensive but it doesn't clean as well. I went to Elusive Disc and found the orbitrac 2 cleaning kit. Does this kit also reduce static? The price seems great. I do eventually want to get a vacuum cleaning system, its just not possible right now. Is the inexpensive nitty gritty 1.0 worth the money? It is only about $250 and I don't mind spinning the lp by hand. Thanks.

I have noticed that some of my records are building up static. I assume this static electricity is affecting the sound, so can I just spray RatShack anti-static spray on them? Is there some other solution that is designed for LP's? I just don't want to spray it on and find out that it hurts the sound more than help it. Thanks.

I just got a turntable for christmas. It is a Stanton STR8-20b(belt driven). I know it is a cheap table, and not audiophile quality but I like it. It came with a Stanton 500b cartridge, which sounds good. My biggest problem however is playing poorer quality records. When I play some records the S's sounds like hissing snakes. There is also a lot of pops in some of my records. I know that this is something I will just have to deal with vinyl, but I want to minimize these problems as much a possible. Would a higher end cartridge make a difference with these worn out records, or is just sound quality that I will gain? I have noticed that the Sure M97XE gets a lot of recommendations. Would that cartridge play these records better? As you can see I am new to vinyl and don't have any clue as to what can do to make my records more playable. Any recommendations are appreciated. I have this TT hooked up to my Eico HF-81 and it sounds incredible! I thought that my Eico sounded good playing CD's, but vinyl seems to be a better match.

---------------- On 12/15/2003 8:06:24 PM michael hurd wrote: Anyone have an answer as to what discs are the most scratchproof of all the available blank cd-r's? Just wondering. I have only copied a few discs for the car, and I tried burning at 12x, but had a problem. After slowing down the rate to 4x, no problems. Just takes a little longer, that's all. How much does the speed of the computer affect this process? I mean the computer we have is older, and not necessarily up to date ( pentium II 450 with 256 megs ram ). ---------------- I treat my discs horribly, throwing them around in my car. I guess because I know I can always just burn another copy . With just the regular green or blue dye cd-r's, scratches can make the cd skip sometimes in just a few days. I tried TDK's black cd-r's, which are a little more expensive but seem to withstand my abuse completely. I don't think I have had a black CD go bad yet.

What the Fu©k is your problem NOSValves! Kelly didn't said anything that would warrant your remark. You are the biggest @sshole on this forum. All you do is rip on people who don't worship you, and especially Kelly. I am amazed that you get any customers the way you act around here. Also, you are also a pompous bastard when it comes to restoring amps. You are always bragging about how you can make any vintage amp silent, well anybody can. It isn't too difficult to test and replace caps and resistors. Hell I just did it on my newly acquired HF-81, and it is silent. I know that after this post I won't be able ever post again without NOS ripping whatever I say apart. Fu©k it, I don't care.

Seems like everyone is trying to make blanket statements. Making statements like all American cars are crap, or that everything made in Asia sucks, seems illogical to me. There are going to be companies that produce good quality products and companies that produce poor quality products regardless of what country they are produced in. Nobody could possibly defend a statement like "Bose are just as good as Klipsch" because they are both american companies. Now both companies have different customers in mind. Bose knows that nobody is going to hook there speakers up to a Sunfire Signature amp, and they are designed accordingly. Same thing goes for cars. I personally have had much better experience with German and Japanese cars. But that is not to say that Ford can't produce quality automobiles. A car like the Crown Vic was designed to be used in fleets, as in police cars and taxis. Crown Vic's are very reliable, require little maintance. However you don't see too many people driving around in Crown Vic's. Ford doesn't market them to the general public. There are specific reasons that Crown Vics are designed the way they are. Most of the Fords american's are driving are SUV's based on trucks. They are reliable because the trucks have to be. I guess I am just trying to say that you should shop for quality, not country of origin. I also agree with the statements Kelly made about Americas need to drive HUGE SUV's that get 10mpg.

---------------- On 11/13/2003 9:55:01 AM maxg wrote: There was an option under the properties section of the display to set large fonts. I have done this but everything is still bloody small. ---------------- LCD displays all have a native resolution that will look best. There is nothing you can do about that. Did you set the large fonts setting in the appearance tab, or the advanced button under settings? If you just changed it in the appearance tab, change it back to normal, and go into the advanced menu of the settings tab. You can then change the DPI of all of the screen fonts to large(120dpi) or any custom size up to 192 dpi. This still won't change the font size in a word processor though. The only way around that one is to write in larger font size and then change it back 12pt after you are finished and ready to print. If you still have trouble in Internet Explorer, you can also change the text size in View->Text Size. Play around with all of those options until you find something that isn't too large, but readable.

---------------- On 11/11/2003 8:00:04 PM paulparrot wrote: Nobody is going to be listening that loud at average levels. It's the abliity or lack thereof to handle instantaneous peaks that is important. I don't know how fast the Radio Shack SPL meter is. If it's not fast enough, then a lot of what everyone is discussing is not valid. All the manual says is that the FAST setting works "quickly." ---------------- I don't understand instantaneous peaks. 106 dB is 106 dB whether it is for 1 sec or 30. I wouldn't want my system to ever have peaks that went that high. For me 95-100 dB starts to get really uncomfortable. Q-man, if you are looking to replace the KHorn woofer with something that will produce higher spl's, look no further than Pioneer. They have a woofer that can handle 5000 watts! 170 dB!!! I would love to see a human being standing in a room filled 170 dB of sound. Edit: By the way, I am running a 14 wpc Eico HF-81 and could never go back to 125wpc SS!

I just re-read my post and it sounded a little like I am dissapointed with the Audigy 2. I am not at all, I think that for ~$100 it is one of the best buys I have made for my computer. I was just trying to say that if you want audiophile performance, you may have to look at spending a little bit more. Something like TerraTec, or Delta by MAudio. Those sound cards are in the $300 range. Which isn't all that bad considering the prices of other audiophile gear.