I have recently been shopping around for an equipment rack for my gear and was curious to know what everyone's thoughts were on the importance of weight and density of the rack. I found a web site that offers some very nice wooden racks of various sizes and made of different wood types and thicknesses.

Here is a scenario to help explain the question. If I had an equipment rack with 4 shelves including the top and bottom platforms that was made of 2" thick Walnut and had 3" thick posts for legs would it be more acoustically dead then a similar rack with 3" thick Maple shelves?

Just wondering why the Musicstreamer(s) seem to have been overlooked in the latest Recommended Components listing. They have been well-received in Stereophile's pages and elsewhere (and reviewed by AD, as I recall) and God knows I love my Musicstreamer+...but nothing. Not even a "replaced by newer model" notation, which I take it they have been. Seems odd. So what's up?

(Maybe this is better off in the General Rants section, but since it comes out of the Live Sound thread in this section, I put it here. Feel free to move, Stephen.)

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I would sound quite different from Dave even if we both played the same trumpet, played the same piece and in the same style.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/obamas-17-minute-2500-word-res.html?sid=ST2010040202449

I've been jonesing for Ella's 'Twelve Nights in Hollywood' for months, but it was peculiarly hard to come by for a while - I'm guessing the first run was small and sold out quickly.

Well it's back - Amazon and Jazz Loft both list it, and I bought a copy at a brick and mortar store in Syracuse today. I played one disc on the way home and it's everything it's cracked up to be.

Even after (it seems) every stone at every label has been overturned, It makes you wonder how much other unreleased material is out there.

s.

I currently have Bose Tri-Port Headphones connected to my Thinkpad T400 laptop and playing flac quality files.
I was thinking of buying nicer headphones and a USB DAC, but do to money constraints i will upgrade to only of of those.

In the November 2008 review of the Cary CD 306 SACD Professional JA shows a graph with the spectrum of the CD 306's balanced output under a variety of conditions, taken by sweeping the center frequency of a 1/3-octave bandpass filter from 20kHz down to 20Hz. JA states "two pairs of traces overlap below 3kHz; they are the spectra of a dithered tone at 1kHz, first with SACD data, then with external 24-bit data (footnote 1). Both show a drop in the noise floor of around 15dB, suggesting that the Cary player's ultimate resolution is between 18 and 19 bits."

When it comes to sports, I love stats and numbers and the stories and everything....except for watching an entire game. (Example: Who has three hours free to piss away watching football?)

Anywho...

Why is it the best Final Four, ever?

I'll tell ya: The fantastic stories!

West Virginia: Last championship 1959 with Jerry West playing! The current coach, Bob Huggins, had a successful tenure at Cincinatti, but there was a recruiting scandal and fall from grace, inculding an ignominious DUI episode and a myocardial infarction.

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