First use of a term, write it out in full and put the abbreviation in parentheses next to it. Second reference to that item, use the abbreviation.
Why?
What are EUC and **AA?
Presumably you mean to replace the letters RI with two asterisks. Why be cute? Write for your readers, please.
A CD carries about 85% of the information on a vinyl disc. Over the past 20 years, electronic manufacturers have developed better CD transports and have greatly refined the digital to analogue conversion circuits, both in their ability to convert the digital information into an analogue signal and to remove the objectionable noises that creep into the digital process.
As a result, you can now get about the same quality and amount of information from a CD into your amplifier as you can from a comparably priced vinyl turntable, tone arm, cartridge and phono pre-amplifier.
A good vinyl player and a good CD player in my basement listening room demonstrate repeatedly that vinyl can sound better than a CD.
But the biggest difference among recordings is the actual recording -- if it is properly miked and transcribed to the CD or vinyl biscuit, it will sound good.
Given that the vinyl catalogue, despite the remastering and transfer of many older recordings to CD, is still many many times larger than the CD catalogue, there are good reasons for keeping your vinyl recordings.
The turntable manufacturing industry is increasing its sales, year over year. Same for cartridge manufacturers.
And digital compression and coding for portable sound sources is improving -- once the online sales people start to sell CD sound instead of the 256 Kb stuff currently available, good sound will be everywhere.
And, as units that can transfer vinyl and 78s to digital improve, you will be able to enjoy your old, non-transferred vinyl recordings with you in your portable player.
The name of the audio magazine, Enjoy The Music.com, says it right: all the great gear is nice, even important, but what it is all about is the music.
Wikipedia is a non-profit sharing of knowledge. Its authors contribute their expertise and, to judge by what I have read, the contributors tend to be academics or others thoroughly versed in their field. In most instances, the contributors also appear to be people who share because of their love for knowledge.
The result is free access to knowledge freely shared.
Many people focus on errors and deliberate disinformation by some authors: note the heated discussion following this article based on Islamic slanting of information regarding Israeli archaeology. The openness of Wikipedia means that bad information, intentional or inadvertent, quickly attracts corrections and disputes.
OTOH, Veropedia is nothing more than a cheesy way of getting expertise for free -- an ideal situation for profit, but far removed from the ideals of Wikipedia.
The Veropedia people should be ashamed of themselves for trying to get writers for free. I hope that the various writers' unions make a real stink about this shameless talent grab for profit.
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First use of a term, write it out in full and put the abbreviation in parentheses next to it. Second reference to that item, use the abbreviation. Why? What are EUC and **AA? Presumably you mean to replace the letters RI with two asterisks. Why be cute? Write for your readers, please.
How do the trillions we spend on military force keep us from suffering electronic information sabotage by those who wish to harm us?
A CD carries about 85% of the information on a vinyl disc. Over the past 20 years, electronic manufacturers have developed better CD transports and have greatly refined the digital to analogue conversion circuits, both in their ability to convert the digital information into an analogue signal and to remove the objectionable noises that creep into the digital process. As a result, you can now get about the same quality and amount of information from a CD into your amplifier as you can from a comparably priced vinyl turntable, tone arm, cartridge and phono pre-amplifier. A good vinyl player and a good CD player in my basement listening room demonstrate repeatedly that vinyl can sound better than a CD. But the biggest difference among recordings is the actual recording -- if it is properly miked and transcribed to the CD or vinyl biscuit, it will sound good. Given that the vinyl catalogue, despite the remastering and transfer of many older recordings to CD, is still many many times larger than the CD catalogue, there are good reasons for keeping your vinyl recordings. The turntable manufacturing industry is increasing its sales, year over year. Same for cartridge manufacturers. And digital compression and coding for portable sound sources is improving -- once the online sales people start to sell CD sound instead of the 256 Kb stuff currently available, good sound will be everywhere. And, as units that can transfer vinyl and 78s to digital improve, you will be able to enjoy your old, non-transferred vinyl recordings with you in your portable player. The name of the audio magazine, Enjoy The Music.com, says it right: all the great gear is nice, even important, but what it is all about is the music.
Wikipedia is a non-profit sharing of knowledge. Its authors contribute their expertise and, to judge by what I have read, the contributors tend to be academics or others thoroughly versed in their field. In most instances, the contributors also appear to be people who share because of their love for knowledge. The result is free access to knowledge freely shared. Many people focus on errors and deliberate disinformation by some authors: note the heated discussion following this article based on Islamic slanting of information regarding Israeli archaeology. The openness of Wikipedia means that bad information, intentional or inadvertent, quickly attracts corrections and disputes. OTOH, Veropedia is nothing more than a cheesy way of getting expertise for free -- an ideal situation for profit, but far removed from the ideals of Wikipedia. The Veropedia people should be ashamed of themselves for trying to get writers for free. I hope that the various writers' unions make a real stink about this shameless talent grab for profit.
. . . or law.