That's interesting; if I'd had to guess, I should have guessed that monophonic music enthusiasts would have preferred omnidirectional loudspeakers, but I know next to nothing about either hifi or psychoacoustics.
I assume there are Bix Beiderbecke (or whomever) lovers who mostly listen to monophonic recordings. Surely there is a subset of these music fans who are also "hifi" enthusiasts; it would be interesting to know whether there's a consensus among them as to what are good loudspeakers which differs...
I've been thinking about writing my own upnp control point for some of the reasons you give here. I'm pretty happy with MinimServer as the back end (though I'd love to be able to embed pdfs of album liners somehow), but Bubble and Kazoo (the best controllers I've found) are both wanting in my...
14% inflation is high vs. general Canadian CPI, but a good many inputs to industrial production have risen by much more over that period (I'm not saying it *is* the case here, but it *could be*): I've had several expense items in my business (not electronics) by more than that.
Fortunately for...
The only thing I could wish of the Litton Prokofiev recordings would have been the inclusion of both versions of the fourth symphony. Their Grieg set is also of very high musical quality.
I'm not enough of an audiophile to give authoritative judgement on their engineering, but BIS and Chandos...
Announced on the home page https://www.bis.se/.
I harbour an invincible dread that the outcome will eventually be no more BIS discs or downloads, just their botched primephonic rebadge.
I shall miss you. May all the joys of your life dwell in your mind, the music you have loved dwell in your ears, and the people you have loved fill your spirit in whatever time is afforded you. Thank you for being who you are.
Thank you, David. MoDem (and an unholy assortment of switches) are all on the same circuit as the stereo. Alas I can't move any of them (I'm in a small flat, and everything is in our "everything" room (i.e. the room which is not the bathroom, bedroom, or kitchen).
Ah. Thank you, JSmith. It's definitely lower in pitch than that. The phono cable to the sub by necessity terminates near the IEC inlet of the sub, so perhaps that's it. Would the 1:1 trafo "fix" electro-magnetic interference, though?
Thank you, andysu. I'm not yet confident enough to open a mains-powered device (at least, if I ever want to plug it in again).
Does anyone know whether you can get an e.g. low-current, 2.3V AC power supply to use for learning, where if you get shocked, it's at 1% of what would happen in real...
Thank you, pseudoid. You could well be on to something: the sub-woofer's plate amplifier is reasonably well-ventilated, but I imagine that the heat conduction is asymmetrical, so that heat builds up within the enclosure. What is then the thermal/electrical mechanism for changing the potential...
Forgive me, I don't think I was particularly clear. I think the "search" problem is largely solved. I think the "browse" problem is very much unsolved. And search (knowing what you want ab initio) is not a good solution to browsing (knowing what you want when you find it)