A good friend of my alerted me to this new recording from Carlos Bica & Mat

I once worked at a place who distributed foreign magazines and newspapers in Denmark, and lots of the mags had diskette games, cassette tapes and other gadgets added to the magazine covers. When the mags got returned we couldn't sell them so they went into recycling, and we ripped the mag covers for whatever it was.

The British car magazine "Popular classics" had at a particular time, cassette tapes with sounds of different cars added to it, and I have at home 2 of those. The car sounds featured are:

When I think about the absurdities some people call "tweaks" I can't help wondering why there's no one complaining (or praising for that matter) the following things in a typical listening room:

Anybody been to one of their shows?

I am a fan of two of the three, so we are going to catch them at The Joint.

I'm curious as to other's experiences!

One thing that always stuck in by craw was when reading Stereophiles Recommended components issues and after reading about the Bill Gates systems you read..."there are no class C recommendations"...or "There are no class D recommendations"....WHY not???? The analog stuff really gets me....there are NO Carts that are class D? or maybe one or two phono preamps???

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As you may recall, NFS Audio had created a room tweak wherein laser light of a certain frequency was used to make the air in the listening room more 'coherent' and thereby more effectively couple the speaker/air interface and improve sound quality.

Also, the more 'coherent air' in the room iteself becomes a better conductor of sound, with less 'air induced' distortion products added to the music signal once it leaves the speaker.

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If you look closely, you'll see how well it makes the speakers 'vanish!'

I was taking a stroll along a pleasnt forest path and heard a steady "tap tap tap" coming from underneath large, flat rock near the base of an old ash tree.

I looked all around the rock, but couldn't find the source of the sound.

Conditioned as I am from such rambles with my sons, whose interest in wildlife echoes that of my own childhood, I bent down and lifted one end of the rock, hoping to catch a glimpse of some exotic creature or another: perhaps a delicate ring-necked snake, or a plasticky-looking red eft.

Having experienced a vast improvement in replacing my old phono interconnects lately, I am rather curious as to whether anyone of you guys have done the same, or if you still play through the standard ones that came with the turntable.

If you have changed cables, to what brand? Special RCA's? What is your opinion on the new cables vs the standard/old ones?