The quality of the music (in the clips) suffers from the same problem that keyboardists usually have when playing guitars in a sampler -- namely that without the subtle time differences and dynamics in picked notes or without the appegiations of chords, it ends up sounding like a harpsichord. In fact, the mechanism used here to sound the strings in this machine is exactly like a harpsichord, complete with a quill-like plucker.
Until someone can come up with a finger-like plucking or strumming mechanism, I'm afraid most attempts at mechanical guitar playing will fall far short of a real guitarist.
No serious audiophile will take the D/A conversion of the on board AC'97 codec seriously either. The noise, jitter, and non-linearity of those cheap convertors make them only good enough for the beeps and boops of your system sound effects, no matter how many tubes you put on the motherboard.
You CAN put higher wattage drives in a SilentDrive box. You just have to make sure the heat is adequately dissipated. I have two SCSI drives in SilentDrive enclosures, one 7200 dissipating about 7 watts at idle, and one 10K dissipating 10 watts at idle. Each drive enclosure is solidly mounted to the computer case to increase the effective surface area of the heat plates, and a 12V fan wired for 7V operation blows outside air directly over the plates. Everything stays cool to the touch, and quiet too!
>>Now they say its unfeasible because they lost the specs to the SaturnV Rocket.
Uh, NASA has the complete specs to the Saturn V booster plus all the engineering data plus all the test data and most of the engineers who worked on it are still living. I'm not quite sure where the myth started that we lost the design plans, but it is false.
>>Uh, Mozart died penniless and was buried in a mass paupers' grave in Vienna.
Ah, another popular myth about to be debunked. Check out how much money Mozart really made (it was quite a bit for the time) and how he died relatively wealthy by going here.
It looks more like a late 70's, early 80's corvette from its profile. Some cuttin' and pastin' on that fiberglass and hey, its an "authentic" Mach 5!:-)
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The quality of the music (in the clips) suffers from the same problem that keyboardists usually have when playing guitars in a sampler -- namely that without the subtle time differences and dynamics in picked notes or without the appegiations of chords, it ends up sounding like a harpsichord. In fact, the mechanism used here to sound the strings in this machine is exactly like a harpsichord, complete with a quill-like plucker.
Until someone can come up with a finger-like plucking or strumming mechanism, I'm afraid most attempts at mechanical guitar playing will fall far short of a real guitarist.
No serious audiophile will take the D/A conversion of the on board AC'97 codec seriously either. The noise, jitter, and non-linearity of those cheap convertors make them only good enough for the beeps and boops of your system sound effects, no matter how many tubes you put on the motherboard.
You CAN put higher wattage drives in a SilentDrive box. You just have to make sure the heat is adequately dissipated. I have two SCSI drives in SilentDrive enclosures, one 7200 dissipating about 7 watts at idle, and one 10K dissipating 10 watts at idle. Each drive enclosure is solidly mounted to the computer case to increase the effective surface area of the heat plates, and a 12V fan wired for 7V operation blows outside air directly over the plates. Everything stays cool to the touch, and quiet too!
Uh, NASA has the complete specs to the Saturn V booster plus all the engineering data plus all the test data and most of the engineers who worked on it are still living. I'm not quite sure where the myth started that we lost the design plans, but it is false.
Ah, another popular myth about to be debunked. Check out how much money Mozart really made (it was quite a bit for the time) and how he died relatively wealthy by going here.
Ah yes, the ol' rocket powered car urban legend. Check out this.
Could we at least let one of the smaller ones through in the hopes that it will hit Jim Carrey?
It looks more like a late 70's, early 80's corvette from its profile. Some cuttin' and pastin' on that fiberglass and hey, its an "authentic" Mach 5! :-)