Welcome back Queen Mother.

seriously though, missed you while you were out,man!

I just heard a very interesting thing about Arizona on the radio.
It kind of goes like this.
In Arizona the Republican candidates are fighting to see who can look the toughest nut on the right wing block.
Meanwhile Hispanics are the fastest growing section of the community.
Whilst 80% of those described as "old" are white, only 40% of children are white.
As a Hispanic Republican activist commented, if the GOP wants to alienate a family oriented, religious, socialist hating section of people, it will certainly not help their election hopes.

I recently purchased a fiber Optic cable to hook my PC up to my Receiver. However, the sound quality is noticeably worse. The music often sounds flat, faint, distant, unbalanced and lacking the richness that I get from my cd player, which is also hooked up to my receiver.
My sound card is Realtek HD and my receiver is a Denon, but before the days of HDMI (if that even makes a noticeable difference). Most of my digital music is in wav format. I've attempted to fiddle with the equalizer, bass and treble on my receiver, but the improvement is only marginal. Any suggestions?

John Marks has put up some very nice recordings on Youtube under Cremonaguy (no space) that are excellent. Check them out. I really enjoyed them. John, you did a great job syncing the cam corder and the 2496 recorder.

I currently have my Sony STR-DE425 hooked up to a pair of Definitive Pro Studio 450 speakers. When listening to music there is a distinct lack of bass. I currently listen to CD's through my Panasonic DVD-S47, though I've tried a number of different CD players, plus my ipod, and they all have the same lack of bass. Since I listened to the speakers in the store before I bought them, and they sounded really good, I assume it must be a problem with my receiver. My first question is why do you think this is? Why does this receiver put out a severe lack of bass?

http://pitchfork.com/news/39047-mavis-staples-tells-all-about-her-new-album-with-wilcos-jeff-tweedy/

http://www.twentyfourbit.com/post/831073717/hear-jeff-tweedy-sing-you-are-not-alone

AMERICAN TREASURE MAVIS STAPLES DELIVERS RAW JOY ON NEW ALBUM YOU ARE
NOT ALONE (ANTI- RECORDS/SEPT 14) PRODUCED BY JEFF TWEEDY* *
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I have a number of questions on how an audio signal gets from the CD or digital file to the speakers. Does anyone know where I could find a good explanation of all this?