Invidiosulus

Am I right in thinking that the curve you are describing is the reason for the "loudness" buttons found on some amplifiers? Our ears are more attuned to the midrange frequencies and at lower volumes the highs and lows are not as apparent. It would seem then that even if your systen had a completely flat frequency response that it would only sound flat at louder volumes. Peace, Josh

I love my sv... oops I mean klipsch subwoo... oh wait I don't have a sub It sure is nice to hear what other kinds of subs work well with klipsch. One day I will have earth moving capabilities Peace, Josh

Lol, This strikes me as funny. Peace, Josh

The JBL "studio" series at best buy is kind of a joke imo. While they are not aweful speakers they are not near the quality of the real JBL studio series. JBL still makes and sells a number of lines of speakers in japan that I don't believe are generally available over here in the states. I would be interested in comparing my 1981 JBL L46 speakers to the new S38II's as they seem to be a similarly sized speaker(8" woofer etc.) Peace, Josh

maxg, The extra hiss you are mentioning may very well be a result of your using the soundblaster 128. The little 1/8" stereo jacks on the soundblaster are not the quietest connections around. My dad(marvel) had some pieces of acoustic guitar work that he had initially recorded on his Alesis Adat(I believe in 44.1/20bit) and he recorded them into his computer using an older sound blaster card. He experienced much the same sort of hiss and a slight softness or muddiness in the high end. Later once the computer with the M-audio 24/96 card was up and running he again recorded the same piece of music and the results were incredibly better. Peace, Josh

Cyclonecj, Using an sblive card's line in jack to record from will not give you near the sound quality of the M-audio 24/96 cards. Going from that to mp3 as your playback format you are going to lose even more sound quality, even with a 320kbps mp3. I believe the sblive's normal output sampling rate is 48kHz so there may be some interesting things going on with a cd being played back. My yamaha reciever has noption to display the incoming sample rate. I'll see if it's doing 48kHz with a cd later this afternoon. Peace, Josh

You can use a dual output video card as mentioned. Or you can use two seperate video cards, one agp and one pci card works fine. If you go with two seperate cards you may have a little bit of trouble getting the colors to match on each of the monitors. As for running CS on one monitor and having your desktop up on the other might give you some trouble. I've noticed most systems will take a bit of a performance hit when trying to run an OpenGl window fullscreen while runnning the desktop on the other half of the visible area if you are using a dual head card. With the earlier versions of the drivers for my radeon 8500 trying to run a game on one screen and the desktop on the other was a sure way to kill my fps and often resulted in the BSOD. Peace, Josh

I have a JBL badge you could use. The badge just fell off with a little clink noise It's back on now though. Hmm, maybe I should replace it with a klipsch badge. I still miss that lowercase k. Peace, Josh

I would have to second the Dell recomendation. They seem to be fairly reliable, I have had one for three and a half years and the only trouble I have had has been the results of myself doing stupid things to the OS. The only hardware problem I had was the monitor died, but it was still within the three year warranty and after a short phone call they sent me a new one that has even better specs then the old one Overall they seem to be pretty nice. Peace, Josh

I had Beos installed on one of my spare computers a while back. It was incredibly fast, I was amazed at how responsive it was on a pentiumII 266. I remember a friend of mine showing me a site for the openBeos project I think it was called. The newer versions of Redhat however seem kinda bloated unless you tweak the heck out of it. My little 266MHz dell has had Redhat linux, Corel Linux, Beos, Windows NT4, Windows 98, and I think I still have Marvel's cd with FreeBSD around somewhere so I might try that as well. Peace, Josh

Interesting, You mention a compression ratio. Does that mean that the gray backgrounds for the buttons are being exported as .jpg's? I wonder what kind of a filesize difference there would be if they were vector? btw, you might have noticed that i'm vector crazy. Down with the Evil raster image regime Long live Vector Peace, Josh

Craig, I believe that, I hate Everyone = Allan Songer Peace, Josh

Way to go on the belles there m00n. If you enjoy them half as much as I enjoy my heresies you will be enjoying them a lot. I'd buy you a beer but by the time it got to you it would be kind of warm Peace, Josh

John Steinbeck is one of my favorites. Another author I'm rather fond of is P. G. Wodehouse. Both of these have provided me with many hours of entertainment whilst sitting at my favorite coffee shop. Peace, Josh

Aah yes, I did read the side bar. 800x600 is still the most common res used by people browsing the internet. As I believe I stated this first caught my eye at 1280x1024. Nothing personal is meant by these comments. Peace, Josh

I'm rather particular to the oiled walnut on my JBL's Peace, Josh

Justin, The artifacting I mentioned is hard to see at a nice high res. At 1280x1024 it is barely noticable on either of my monitors. Once I dropped the res down to 800x600 I thought it was quite noticable. Peace, Josh

Justin, Nice job on the layout and design of the new soundwise site. There are one or two things that kinda bugged me about it though. First of all it doesn't really have anything about it as far as the look goes that makes me think it's a site that has anything to do with audio. The look of the site almost feels as if it could be an insurance site or something like that(or a windows XP site) Also I think the gray buttons along the top are slightly sloppy looking, there seems to be some artifacting around the little diamonds to the right of each word. Since you are using flash anyway it should be easy to go ahead and make those buttons vector shapes in flash. Overall I think it looks great. Now I just want to see it finished Peace, Josh

I think port distance depends on it's age. I'm kind of a scotch man myself. Peace, Josh

My dad(marvel) has the M-Audio 24/96 card. From what I have heard that has been recorded with this, I would say the sound is great. The quality of sound and lack of background noise is the main thing that jumped out at me. Perhaps Marvel could comment on this as it is his gear and not mine Peace, Josh

I use bare wires on all of my connections. I find that the bare wires work just fine if you are not going to be switching things out all of the time. That's about all I have to say on the matter. Peace, Josh

---------------- On 3/4/2003 9:57:14 PM justin_tx_16 wrote: Pretty soon people will start touting solid, single strand copper speaker cable hehe. ---------------- Actually I found solid, single strand copper cable to lack some of the defenition of my 12g monster cable. The bass was slightly rounder as a result but the mids and highs felt as if they were sluggish wit the solid cable. btw, oxidation happens so gradually that over time one might not notice the sound changing. Yet if you were to switch to new cable the difference would be noticable. No cable wars here Peace, Josh

You mean you're not going to be tweaking your system anymore? Yeah right!! LOL, ROFL. Peace, Josh

But gold is a soft metal Peace, Josh

The THX specs(for audio) are not much more then a set of frequency response and noise level specs. Even if you have THX certified components you don't have THX sound unless you have a room built to THX spec. The THX room specs include a floating floor that is basicly on its own foundation seperate from the foundation that the walls rest on, as well as having an in room frequency response with no peaks that is flat from about 40Hz to 15kHz. Peace, Josh