the price tag. $10,000+ for a high quality turntable setup
I think that you could get a decent vinyl front end system for considerably less than that, especially going second hand. I would agree that there are a lot better ways to spend $10,000.
I have a pretty large vinyl record collection myself, and properly looked after they don't have to degrade so quickly. I have records such as "On the Boards" by Taste circa 1970 which sound as fresh as new
With someone like me with a large vinyl collection I can see good reason to keep on renewing their stylus at around £100 a shot (the most expensive outlay needed every couple of years), but for someone starting their music collection I don't think that vinyl would be the way to go. Although I am very satisfied with the sound quality from my vinyl, the choice is much better if collecting CDs and/or mp3, and at the end of the day this is the deciding factor. After all music lovers love music and not music playing devices/formats. So I buy vinyl where available, but will buy more CDs.
At the end of the day it's the non availability of most new material which means that vinyl will remain an interesting side issue
There are various stories of North Sea Oil platforms which were designed to be "remote controlled" but ended up being manned. Its pretty hard when you have a some conflicting gauge readings and you want someone go check. Eventually it is cheaper to man the platform rather than try to find someone to go out, learn the plant, and check those conflicting readings. Humans are very flexible and good at adjusting to a system that does not operate exactly as planned.
I am reminded of a story my Dad told me from when he used to maintain radio equipment for drillers operating in the desert in the Middle East. He used find that the power supplies for the Radios were burnt out, and usually the output power valves were blown.
Eventually he found out that when the drilling rig was sticking, ie the bit had hit something hard and couldn't turn, the Toolpusher would go and increase the voltage on the camps inverter, so that instead of 240Vac, you would have around 300Vac. This would give the drill motor enough power to get the bit turning again, but of course blow all the comms equipment.
The driller is a different type of animal to the computer geek in my experience, and he speaks a totally different language, so it will be interesting to see how the computer controlled drilling system copes with , for example, when "greedy drillers create wooly sheep which block the shark hoses", as I read in our toolpushers report while I was fixing his PC yesterday (yes worked through Christmas Day).
Terrorists would be much more likely to target neighbouring UK who are deeply involved with the Middle East rather than Norway.
In fact choosing Norway as a target over the UK would be very counter productive, it would be saying that you might as well get involved in the Middle East, because you will be a target anyway.
The UK sector has always been a possible Terrorist Target, so the SBS (Like the SAS but more expertise with boats) trains regularly on various offshore installations.
I have been on a platform during some of their training exercises. Sometimes they get dropped from over the horizon in canoes (by submarine) paddle over and climb up the platform stairs, from underneath! But on this occasion they rather tamely arrived by military helicopter.
I have a Heathkit stereo pre-amplifier with two 12W stand alone valve power amps.
Built by my Dad in 1964 ish.
As I had the original construction manuals I knew the circuits down to component level and could rebuild / refurbish these with ease. They work superbly.
The matching Speakers which stand four feet high and three feet wide, were not up to the standard of modern speakers, so I gave these to my Son who uses them as PC speakers. They go pretty loud with a tiny 2W amplifier!
Yes the Heathkits were phenomenally good and as Mr Anonymous Coward said above you could fix them, so they last as long as you want them to.
If *everyone* believes that something is not wrong..... doesn't that sorta necessarily make it so?
That has hit the nail on the head.
Another piece missing from TFA is that from the people that I know, and I travel around a lot, you are hard pushed to find many people under the age of 50 years who believe that downloading and burning a movie is morally wrong. Even a couple of years ago I would not be able to say that, but now we live in a world where people appreciate the convenience of being able to easily find that movie. Of course you cannot easily find material from official sites so I don't know of anyone who downloads from an official site.
I would say that the only hope for the media companies is to provide cheap fast convenient downloads without DRM, or they are not going to get the download business.
In a conversation about personal responsibility and internet use, you've managed to find a way to express your derision for Microsoft Windows. Derision as in jeering laughter? Towards Microsoft. Not my intention. If that is what you perceive then you have not understood me, or I haven't expressed myself clearly. So I will expand on this.
I reported what I have found, which is that those in my community running windows had malware problems, whilst running Linux there were no such problems. Ok that does not make windows look good, but it is what happened.
Sure, you have a point
thanks
but is it really a point worth making
Ah.. good question. My point is that microsoft windows because of some limitations, and how it was implemented by normal non IT literate people was taking certain aspects of the internet to these users, so that it would not just be a user looking for these sites, but the sites being able to present themselves unbidden to them.
That is a point worth making because, rather than saying kids are stumbling onto sites which the "ultra conservatives" are concerned about, I am saying that often it is the operating system bringing the sites to them. In which case the "ultra conservatives" rather than expending all their energy on reigning in the internet, which I feel is ridicules, would have by the logic followed above a good reason to also protest at microsoft. I was rather hoping that the idea of buses full of these protesters going to Redmond would seem ridicules. I suppose being British I am rather fond of irony.
Is it related to the topic at hand
I hope that I have shown that it is.
As a footnote, since the majority of Pr0n sites run on Linux and Apache, as soon as the conservatives have finished with Redmond they should proceed to Trolltech.
It is the responsibility of the parents to be aware of what their kids are up to.
However there is one factor which makes this responsibility harder. And that is the mono ecosystem that is Windows
A couple of years ago, when broadband first arrived in our area every Windows user I knew had told me that they had at some time received pr0n pop ups, or even desktop shortcuts to dubious sites arrive on their computers. Any 14 year old boy would be bound to investigate of course, what would you or I have done at that age?
People were surprised when I told them that I had not had the same thing happen on my family Linux box, in fact not a sniff of any unwanted malware. There was the impression around that the occasional unwanted malware was just "because of broadband".
Now I don't think that there was any harm done as these windows users struggled to control their popups, mainly just embarrassment. However you could interpret Windows as having been a funnel for malware which could "corrupt minors".
So why don't those ultra conservatives all hire themselves some buses to Redmond and protest outside the manufacture of the operating system which peddles the pr0n, and leave us our internet (which works fine as it is)?
I myself was educated by an order of Catholic Brothers"(a bit like monks) in Scotland. There were an impressive list of eccentrics, as one would expect, and some eccentric beliefs to match (anyone for a procession of angels?). These were people who had sacrificed a lot for their beliefs, you know vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.
However when it came to Science they were bang on. The closest they ever came to ID was Brother Francis (The Biology Teacher) when if pressed on evolution would say that he would like to think that perhaps there was room for a little Divine nudge, but that this was not in the curriculum, and not in the Science of Biology and would never be included in the classroom. In fact I remember in the morning religious knowledge period the Biblical creationist theorem being taken apart, and really discarded.
It is of course a great irony that Charles Darwin himself was a theology student, but he arrived at the theory of evolution via Scientific method. Religion and Science are not incompatible, they just dont deal with the same areas.
To sum up, the creationists are an embarrassment to both religion and Science and should get some education.
I agree, the author did not take enough time to think about this IMHO. Perhaps the person thinks that the extra security is that you are directed to https site. Or perhaps he does just click yes to everything. You won't know from that particular question.
another thing, I don't think clicking no! to absolutely everything makes you particularly smart either.
For amplifier design and the like, not a lot has happened in decades
There was a level reached around late 1950's when it was possible to have excellent sound, and all the advances since then have been in lowering cost improving convenience, and adding style variations. I suppose I should add that there have been improvements in efficiency too. I don't think that valve amplifiers such as my own are necessarily the best in terms of Hi Fi, but they are very good, and extremely stable due their simplicity, and I can repair any fault apart from the output transformers (which are extremely robust and should last another half century).
My favourite bit about expensive nonsense - Tube amplifiers "sound" nicer in certain conditions.
Yes I don't know about necessarily sounding nicer, but I have found that the sound seems to make sense and sounds good to me. For example the distortion increases for an increase in level, which is how you expect things to go, your ear works the same way. One problem is with producing strong bass. You need a very hefty output transformer for good valve bass, so I have a transistor sub woofer to warm up the bass slightly. Other than that I am also a musician, and I have never heard any reproduction system which "correctly" reproduces the full range of acoustic instruments, not even when I record with a good condenser mic.....
Today there are still people who are good with analog, but the vast majority are doing digital systems
As an aside on this, I happen to work in the British Sector of the North Sea (Oil Platforms), the one which I am on at the moment has just celebrated it's 30th birthday. Out here there are serious amounts of old hardware tied into legacy hardware which would cost a fortune to replace. In the electronics front they are really strugling to find technicians that can handle the old analogue engineering. Ironically I am presently studying Networking and Communications (for fun?), all digital technology. But it is the my old analogue background which is by far the most valuable. And as far as digital technology, it is ladder logic and old DOS programs that are used to program PLCs where the most "fun" is found.
They have special algorithms that are much better at recognizing patterns in wav files
the usual principle (I am not specifically aware of the details of FLAC) is that you have the algorithms which recognise patterns as in quote above.
For a lossy compression that might be close enough and therefore information about the patterns can be sent, which involves much less data than the original.
For lossless compression the patterns might be derived as before, and then the difference between the original and the lossy-compressed patterns is also recorded. The lossless compression works because by combining the compression and difference you get the exact same waveform as the original but it takes less data than just recording the original wave data.
Personally I think most internet trolls are socio-paths.
That is an interesting theory, and certainly as far as the nasty (rather than the light less aggressive Trolls) Trolls seems to make sense. I would love to read some research on this. After all we all come across them, it would be nice to be able to respond with a url to a paper.
Sticking trolls into a particular state of mind and pinning down their motivation is impossible
there are different flavours of Trolls out there. Some are humorous and not very abusive, perhaps just pushing the opposite argument for the hell of it, or for a bit of fun, others can be nasty. I suppose that I was only thinking of the former in my post. I have experienced the nasty sort, but like you with your response to your Troll who you thought
seem[ed] to be [a]prankster
I actually found it a tad amusing. I would love to read a study on Trolls. Flaming I can understand, light Trolling I can understand, but the hate filled Trolls I have less insight into.
The article seems to group Trolls and Flaming together. They are quite different.
Flaming is when disagreements escalate into personal attacks. This could be put down partly to the low social presence of email and forums, i.e. because people do not have the rich social clues available in face to face communication, they are therefore apt (Debian term) to misinterpret the intentions of the other.
The psychology of Trolls is different however. I think that light Trolling is pretty common on and offline, as an innocuose tease or wind-up. At this level it can be entertaining. I think that there should be more studies of Trolls. Do they start off with little gentle gibes and then get progress to more biting posts?
Any Trolls out there want to tell the group how they got into Trolling?
Some high profile Hi-Fi retailers don't seem to be able to tell the difference between physics and magic.
For example I once purchased a Rega RB300 pick up arm (for my turntable) from a retailer in a British Hi-Fi Magazine who also advertised large expensive speaker cables. Now I know because I have seen the results of tests on many of these cables in the old Electronic and Wireless World, that it is very difficult to differentiate between these cables using mere science.
The RB300 came of course with cables terminated with phono plugs. Now it happens that I use a moving magnet cartridge, and one of the characteristics of such cartridges is that they have a lot of inductance. This is usually compensated for by the capacitance of the cable between the cartridge and the amplifier. The cartridge which I used specified that it should be loaded with 200pF, a typical figure for a moving magnet.
Now being of the nerdy persuasion (no surprise, I'm posting on/.) I measured the capacitance of the connecting cables to find that they were 380pF and 630pF. The result of such a missload is unpredictable but theoretically could cause a large ripple through the frequency band.
When I contacted the retailer he was flabbergasted, he couldn't understand a word of what I was telling him. He kept asking "but does it sound right", to which I replied that as it wasn't correctly engineered I wouldn't fit it. He later phoned back again and got my wife, who though not technical herself, tried to explain to him that I had a meter with which I could measure capacitance. I eventually got the unit shipped back to Rega who replaced the cables, and then gave me an accurate measurement of new capacitance, which was in spec.
Interestingly not long after I noticed that there was an upgraded model for the pickup arm, and a little cottage industry which could upgrade your RB300 with better bearings and new cable
I never fitted the pickup though. My little adventure made me into a Hi-Fi luddite, and I instead rebuilt old an valve kit hi-fi system and an old turntable, so that I knew everything in the signal path.
Yes the 2nd order distortion products are the key to the smoother sound.
The guitar input to the amp is never a single tone, but a mix of different notes and or harmonics.
The overdriven amp will cause mixing products, the mixing products created using 2nd order distortion causes new frequencies which are harmonically related in a more pleasant way to the ear than the products created by odd order distortion.
The classic valve sound is caused by the former.
Interestingly (to me;-) ) when I play guitar I either use as smooth a setting as possible, or as gritty transistory a distortion as possible (through my Marshal valve state) so its all rather a matter of taste
and my hi-fi amp is an old Heathkit ultra-linear which I renovated. Made in 1963 and still sounds very clean (although I have added a transistor sub-woofer as tranny amps handle sub-bass much more cost effectively)
about the FM compression. fyngryz is correct, the medium dos not inherently compress audio. However, at least in the UK all channels except for BBC Radio 3 employ compressors before the modulation process. This is so that listeners in a car (who it is argued are the majority of the Radio audience) can listen to their programs more comfortably without straining to hear quiet passages over their engine noise. However even BBC Radio 3 switches in a compressor during morning and evening rush hour for the same reason as above, although this is an in house secret, which I am exclusively revealing to slashdot. Outside of rush hour though, if you listen to Radio 3 on FM and compare it to DAB then FM sounds so much better that it hurts to go back to DAB!
The MD failed because it was yet another proprietary Sony format
I agree, and the fact that if you recorded one of your records, CDs or even yourself onto a net mini-disc the annoying propriety software would not allow you to digitally upload this to your PC, making the machine hopeless for home recording note taking or for musicians. This despite the Sony motto at the time go create.
The MD came about at a critical time, and I think that if they had not restricted its use so much it would have been as popular as the walkman, or the ipod.
You realize another ad is only going to take its place, don't you?
true, yes thats a bugger isnt it
Considering that, I think the censorship and encouragement of people who have no common sense are pretty fucking big downsides!
well I think that we have to balance between advertising just another car against the concerns of some parents who are worried about their kids safety. And there are some concerns, I dont share those concerns for me and my kids, but I can see what people are worried about. Even just encouraging the little darlings from taking the keys is annoying.
So I think that I would be reluctant to make this my stand against censorship.
In general I dont like being subjected to the advertising industries little fantasies anyway. They will use every trick in the book to manipulate us.
So even though the advert in question is pretty innocuous I am not too disturbed if it has been pulled. As I see it, whats the downside, an advert is pulled. Whats the upside, a very unlikely (IMO) copycat event is prevented. I can live with that.
When I first decided to try Linux I did the basic research and decided that I had a choice of going the rpm, apt, or source compile route when deciding a distribution.
Having discovered that source compiling was going to very time consuming on my old PII, and that rpm had dependency problems, I went the apt way and installed Debian.:-)
It appears to me that apt is a natural objective choice for a package manager, and I can also understand the attraction of compiling source code to create binaries matched to your computer, but I cannot understand the benifet of rpm.
However the VSA (very short article) did mention Linspire's CNR (Click and Run) which does appear to fit the slot as a disto agnostic package source, although this will be built upon your distrobutions native package manager rather than replacing it.
In reality I don't think that the rpm / apt argument is so important to newbies as long as they have a well designed gui package manager (eg Synaptic / Adept) built upon it.
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I think that you could get a decent vinyl front end system for considerably less than that, especially going second hand. I would agree that there are a lot better ways to spend $10,000.
I have a pretty large vinyl record collection myself, and properly looked after they don't have to degrade so quickly. I have records such as "On the Boards" by Taste circa 1970 which sound as fresh as new
With someone like me with a large vinyl collection I can see good reason to keep on renewing their stylus at around £100 a shot (the most expensive outlay needed every couple of years), but for someone starting their music collection I don't think that vinyl would be the way to go. Although I am very satisfied with the sound quality from my vinyl, the choice is much better if collecting CDs and/or mp3, and at the end of the day this is the deciding factor. After all music lovers love music and not music playing devices/formats. So I buy vinyl where available, but will buy more CDs.
At the end of the day it's the non availability of most new material which means that vinyl will remain an interesting side issue
There are various stories of North Sea Oil platforms which were designed to be "remote controlled" but ended up being manned. Its pretty hard when you have a some conflicting gauge readings and you want someone go check. Eventually it is cheaper to man the platform rather than try to find someone to go out, learn the plant, and check those conflicting readings. Humans are very flexible and good at adjusting to a system that does not operate exactly as planned.
I am reminded of a story my Dad told me from when he used to maintain radio equipment for drillers operating in the desert in the Middle East. He used find that the power supplies for the Radios were burnt out, and usually the output power valves were blown.
Eventually he found out that when the drilling rig was sticking, ie the bit had hit something hard and couldn't turn, the Toolpusher would go and increase the voltage on the camps inverter, so that instead of 240Vac, you would have around 300Vac. This would give the drill motor enough power to get the bit turning again, but of course blow all the comms equipment.
The driller is a different type of animal to the computer geek in my experience, and he speaks a totally different language, so it will be interesting to see how the computer controlled drilling system copes with , for example, when "greedy drillers create wooly sheep which block the shark hoses", as I read in our toolpushers report while I was fixing his PC yesterday (yes worked through Christmas Day).
In fact choosing Norway as a target over the UK would be very counter productive, it would be saying that you might as well get involved in the Middle East, because you will be a target anyway.
The UK sector has always been a possible Terrorist Target, so the SBS (Like the SAS but more expertise with boats) trains regularly on various offshore installations. I have been on a platform during some of their training exercises. Sometimes they get dropped from over the horizon in canoes (by submarine) paddle over and climb up the platform stairs, from underneath! But on this occasion they rather tamely arrived by military helicopter.
Actually a Heathkit clock sounds great. I bit you could tweak the oscillator to bring it down to speed, or change the xtal.
I have a Heathkit stereo pre-amplifier with two 12W stand alone valve power amps.
Built by my Dad in 1964 ish.
As I had the original construction manuals I knew the circuits down to component level and could rebuild / refurbish these with ease. They work superbly.
The matching Speakers which stand four feet high and three feet wide, were not up to the standard of modern speakers, so I gave these to my Son who uses them as PC speakers. They go pretty loud with a tiny 2W amplifier!
Yes the Heathkits were phenomenally good and as Mr Anonymous Coward said above you could fix them, so they last as long as you want them to.
Back to the Robot, may it last as long.
I would say that the only hope for the media companies is to provide cheap fast convenient downloads without DRM, or they are not going to get the download business.
I reported what I have found, which is that those in my community running windows had malware problems, whilst running Linux there were no such problems. Ok that does not make windows look good, but it is what happened.
Sure, you have a pointthanks
but is it really a point worth makingAh .. good question. My point is that microsoft windows because of some limitations, and how it was implemented by normal non IT literate people was taking certain aspects of the internet to these users, so that it would not just be a user looking for these sites, but the sites being able to present themselves unbidden to them.
That is a point worth making because, rather than saying kids are stumbling onto sites which the "ultra conservatives" are concerned about, I am saying that often it is the operating system bringing the sites to them. In which case the "ultra conservatives" rather than expending all their energy on reigning in the internet, which I feel is ridicules, would have by the logic followed above a good reason to also protest at microsoft. I was rather hoping that the idea of buses full of these protesters going to Redmond would seem ridicules. I suppose being British I am rather fond of irony.
Is it related to the topic at hand
I hope that I have shown that it is.As a footnote, since the majority of Pr0n sites run on Linux and Apache, as soon as the conservatives have finished with Redmond they should proceed to Trolltech.
However there is one factor which makes this responsibility harder. And that is the mono ecosystem that is Windows
A couple of years ago, when broadband first arrived in our area every Windows user I knew had told me that they had at some time received pr0n pop ups, or even desktop shortcuts to dubious sites arrive on their computers. Any 14 year old boy would be bound to investigate of course, what would you or I have done at that age?
People were surprised when I told them that I had not had the same thing happen on my family Linux box, in fact not a sniff of any unwanted malware. There was the impression around that the occasional unwanted malware was just "because of broadband".
Now I don't think that there was any harm done as these windows users struggled to control their popups, mainly just embarrassment. However you could interpret Windows as having been a funnel for malware which could "corrupt minors".
So why don't those ultra conservatives all hire themselves some buses to Redmond and protest outside the manufacture of the operating system which peddles the pr0n, and leave us our internet (which works fine as it is)?
It would be a most amusing spectacle
I myself was educated by an order of Catholic Brothers"(a bit like monks) in Scotland. There were an impressive list of eccentrics, as one would expect, and some eccentric beliefs to match (anyone for a procession of angels?). These were people who had sacrificed a lot for their beliefs, you know vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.
However when it came to Science they were bang on. The closest they ever came to ID was Brother Francis (The Biology Teacher) when if pressed on evolution would say that he would like to think that perhaps there was room for a little Divine nudge, but that this was not in the curriculum, and not in the Science of Biology and would never be included in the classroom. In fact I remember in the morning religious knowledge period the Biblical creationist theorem being taken apart, and really discarded.
It is of course a great irony that Charles Darwin himself was a theology student, but he arrived at the theory of evolution via Scientific method. Religion and Science are not incompatible, they just dont deal with the same areas.
To sum up, the creationists are an embarrassment to both religion and Science and should get some education.
I agree, the author did not take enough time to think about this IMHO. Perhaps the person thinks that the extra security is that you are directed to https site. Or perhaps he does just click yes to everything. You won't know from that particular question.
another thing, I don't think clicking no! to absolutely everything makes you particularly smart either.
There was a level reached around late 1950's when it was possible to have excellent sound, and all the advances since then have been in lowering cost improving convenience, and adding style variations. I suppose I should add that there have been improvements in efficiency too. I don't think that valve amplifiers such as my own are necessarily the best in terms of Hi Fi, but they are very good, and extremely stable due their simplicity, and I can repair any fault apart from the output transformers (which are extremely robust and should last another half century).
Yes I don't know about necessarily sounding nicer, but I have found that the sound seems to make sense and sounds good to me. For example the distortion increases for an increase in level, which is how you expect things to go, your ear works the same way. One problem is with producing strong bass. You need a very hefty output transformer for good valve bass, so I have a transistor sub woofer to warm up the bass slightly. Other than that I am also a musician, and I have never heard any reproduction system which "correctly" reproduces the full range of acoustic instruments, not even when I record with a good condenser mic.....
As an aside on this, I happen to work in the British Sector of the North Sea (Oil Platforms), the one which I am on at the moment has just celebrated it's 30th birthday. Out here there are serious amounts of old hardware tied into legacy hardware which would cost a fortune to replace. In the electronics front they are really strugling to find technicians that can handle the old analogue engineering. Ironically I am presently studying Networking and Communications (for fun?), all digital technology. But it is the my old analogue background which is by far the most valuable. And as far as digital technology, it is ladder logic and old DOS programs that are used to program PLCs where the most "fun" is found.
For a lossy compression that might be close enough and therefore information about the patterns can be sent, which involves much less data than the original.
For lossless compression the patterns might be derived as before, and then the difference between the original and the lossy-compressed patterns is also recorded. The lossless compression works because by combining the compression and difference you get the exact same waveform as the original but it takes less data than just recording the original wave data.
Flaming is when disagreements escalate into personal attacks. This could be put down partly to the low social presence of email and forums, i.e. because people do not have the rich social clues available in face to face communication, they are therefore apt (Debian term) to misinterpret the intentions of the other.
The psychology of Trolls is different however. I think that light Trolling is pretty common on and offline, as an innocuose tease or wind-up. At this level it can be entertaining. I think that there should be more studies of Trolls. Do they start off with little gentle gibes and then get progress to more biting posts?
Any Trolls out there want to tell the group how they got into Trolling?
For example I once purchased a Rega RB300 pick up arm (for my turntable) from a retailer in a British Hi-Fi Magazine who also advertised large expensive speaker cables. Now I know because I have seen the results of tests on many of these cables in the old Electronic and Wireless World, that it is very difficult to differentiate between these cables using mere science.
The RB300 came of course with cables terminated with phono plugs. Now it happens that I use a moving magnet cartridge, and one of the characteristics of such cartridges is that they have a lot of inductance. This is usually compensated for by the capacitance of the cable between the cartridge and the amplifier. The cartridge which I used specified that it should be loaded with 200pF, a typical figure for a moving magnet.
Now being of the nerdy persuasion (no surprise, I'm posting on /.) I measured the capacitance of the connecting cables to find that they were 380pF and 630pF. The result of such a missload is unpredictable but theoretically could cause a large ripple through the frequency band.
When I contacted the retailer he was flabbergasted, he couldn't understand a word of what I was telling him. He kept asking "but does it sound right", to which I replied that as it wasn't correctly engineered I wouldn't fit it. He later phoned back again and got my wife, who though not technical herself, tried to explain to him that I had a meter with which I could measure capacitance. I eventually got the unit shipped back to Rega who replaced the cables, and then gave me an accurate measurement of new capacitance, which was in spec.
Interestingly not long after I noticed that there was an upgraded model for the pickup arm, and a little cottage industry which could upgrade your RB300 with better bearings and new cable
I never fitted the pickup though. My little adventure made me into a Hi-Fi luddite, and I instead rebuilt old an valve kit hi-fi system and an old turntable, so that I knew everything in the signal path.
The guitar input to the amp is never a single tone, but a mix of different notes and or harmonics.
The overdriven amp will cause mixing products, the mixing products created using 2nd order distortion causes new frequencies which are harmonically related in a more pleasant way to the ear than the products created by odd order distortion.
The classic valve sound is caused by the former.
Interestingly (to me ;-) ) when I play guitar I either use as smooth a setting as possible, or as gritty transistory a distortion as possible (through my Marshal valve state) so its all rather a matter of taste
and my hi-fi amp is an old Heathkit ultra-linear which I renovated. Made in 1963 and still sounds very clean (although I have added a transistor sub-woofer as tranny amps handle sub-bass much more cost effectively)
about the FM compression.
fyngryz is correct, the medium dos not inherently compress audio.
However, at least in the UK all channels except for BBC Radio 3 employ compressors before the modulation process.
This is so that listeners in a car (who it is argued are the majority of the Radio audience) can listen to their programs more comfortably without straining to hear quiet passages over their engine noise.
However even BBC Radio 3 switches in a compressor during morning and evening rush hour for the same reason as above, although this is an in house secret, which I am exclusively revealing to slashdot.
Outside of rush hour though, if you listen to Radio 3 on FM and compare it to DAB then FM sounds so much better that it hurts to go back to DAB!
I agree, and the fact that if you recorded one of your records, CDs or even yourself onto a net mini-disc the annoying propriety software would not allow you to digitally upload this to your PC, making the machine hopeless for home recording note taking or for musicians. This despite the Sony motto at the time go create.
The MD came about at a critical time, and I think that if they had not restricted its use so much it would have been as popular as the walkman, or the ipod.
So this is not really much of a story. Hardly worth discussing IMHO.
:-)
ever seen the movie Supersize Me?
true, yes thats a bugger isnt it
well I think that we have to balance between advertising just another car against the concerns of some parents who are worried about their kids safety. And there are some concerns, I dont share those concerns for me and my kids, but I can see what people are worried about. Even just encouraging the little darlings from taking the keys is annoying.
So I think that I would be reluctant to make this my stand against censorship.
So even though the advert in question is pretty innocuous I am not too disturbed if it has been pulled. As I see it, whats the downside, an advert is pulled. Whats the upside, a very unlikely (IMO) copycat event is prevented. I can live with that.
Having discovered that source compiling was going to very time consuming on my old PII, and that rpm had dependency problems, I went the apt way and installed Debian. :-)
It appears to me that apt is a natural objective choice for a package manager, and I can also understand the attraction of compiling source code to create binaries matched to your computer, but I cannot understand the benifet of rpm.
However the VSA (very short article) did mention Linspire's CNR (Click and Run) which does appear to fit the slot as a disto agnostic package source, although this will be built upon your distrobutions native package manager rather than replacing it.
In reality I don't think that the rpm / apt argument is so important to newbies as long as they have a well designed gui package manager (eg Synaptic / Adept) built upon it.