business "improved" with transistor mixers, CD's, then MP3 out of a
Windows box, it never seemed to improve technically, if anything it
became much much worse. I sometimes wonder if this is one of the
reasons the music industry is in trouble.

I guess Beech trees are rare. I'm absoluteluy sure there are not many
of those knobs in existance so I guess they are rare as well.

Reminds me of a post guy, who was riding an EQ til he just got it
"right". Spent a half hour just gettig it "right" Just when he had it
"right" he noticed the EQ was not punched in. We sometimes hear
what we want to hear.

I'd bet Tung oil would sound far better than that lacquer. :-)

Chris Smith wrote:
Tell me, are other technical arenas as fraught with bullshit as ours?
a href="http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NOB_C37_C&Category_Code=VOLUME&Product_Count=2">look</a

Well, I hate to open myself up to criticism, but I have to chime in here.



Over the last couple of years I have become a bit of an audiophile in the
headphone realm. There is a group called http://www.head-fi.org/ and this
stuff is addictive as hell. I would recommend that you stay clear of the
site because before you know it you will have dropped $3000.00 on a
headphone rig with a wish list of another $2500.00 and you will no longer be
able to listen to 95% of the crap you used to call music. I have progressed
through several different headphone amplifiers and rolled many different
op-amps and tubes trough all of them hunting for that perfect balance.



My current main rig is a Meridian 588 cd player with a Virtual Dynamics
Power 1 power cable. This feeds a German made Audio Valve RKV MK2 tube
amplifier via Virtual Dynamic Reference interconnects. Finally, the
headphones are Sennheiser HD650s with a ZU Mobius headphone cable. I could
have bought some nice new radio mics for what I have in this system, but it
is absolutely worth every penny to me.



I was never a believer in people being able to hear differences in
interconnect cables, much less power cables, but I believe it now. I was
able to balance the sound of the components in this system by trying
different cables until I found ones that I liked. Fortunately, most all
high-end cable manufactures allow for a trial period, so you can return them
after a couple of weeks if you don't like them.



As far as burning in cables, this does make a difference as well but only if
the cable is burned in and then allowed to stay in the same position without
much movement. Over a period of 100+ hours of use you can really hear some
manufactures cables open up. The cables that we tend to use for production
(Canare and Mogami) have to be rolled up as well as connected and
disconnected many times a day so they are extremely flexible, thin cables
that do not really benefit that much from burn in. The cables that benefit
the most are heavy, solid conductor cables that are not to be moved around.
Yes, solid core. The power cables and interconnects in my system are very
heavy gauge, individually jacketed solid core cable. You bend them into
place, burn them in for a couple hundred hours, and leave them alone.



I know all this seems a bit fanatical, and it is. That's why I'm a sound
mixer.

You have a very sly wit, Brad ;')

Here's a great article on speaker wire:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerr7/wire.htm#thetruth

Eric

Hi Ray,
The use of beech is well documented in several studies. (We use an
equivalent synthetic wood material at Lectrosonics that the engineers
refer to all the time here during design work known as "son of a
beech".) Further, double blind tests have shown that tung oil is not
statistically superior to lacquer. I think that the RAM design choices
and trade offs up to that point are reasonable. However, they made a
major error by not using oxygen free bronze for the center insert.
Using common bronze simply negates all the anti-resonance effects of
beech and they might as well have just used yellow pine for all the
good it would do.
Larry F

I mend entrecote , the speller oof!!

--
Oleg Kaizerman (gebe) Hollyland


"Oleg Kaizerman" <kaizero removeit@netvision.net.il> wrote in message
news:c5cc10$5htb$1@ID-184704.news.uni-berlin.de...
No problem , but it have to be Antiriot 21/2 WEEKS OLD ,bleu ( less
then
rear , 40sec each side) at leas 20 owns, 2 inch cut , and I want to
meet
the cow before:-)
Don't put a souse on that ,don't ruin the stake !!!
Another like that for desert
TAQILA

--
Oleg Kaizerman (gebe) Hollyland
"Eric Toline" <Audioetc@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Re: Thought you'd seen it all?

Group: rec.arts.movies.production.sound Date: Sun, Apr 11, 2004, 9:32pm
(EDT+6) From: kaizero removeit@netvision.net.il (Oleg Kaizerman)

whats new? I once paid 35$ for the worst steak in my life in fiord
land

You want great steak? You come here. You'll have steak so good your
tongue will throw a party for your mouth.

Eric

Ramps @ NAB: Tuesday April 20 6pm. "Firefly on Paradise" 3900 Paradise
Rd. Las Vegas.

Here in Norway we pay NOK 899 for a pair of Levis... That is USD 130.....

"Eric Toline" <Audioetc@webtv.net> wrote
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Re: >snip

Sorry to tell you but there is no such thing as $100 jeans. A pair of
$20 Wranglers or Levis will do the same job just fine.

Eric

Here in Norway we pay NOK 899 for a pair of Levis... That is USD 130.....

Hans W.