This has to be the best thing I have ever found to clear PC keyboards, cell phones AND remote controls..

Cyber Clean...found at my Wallgreens for about $5..

No residue and lasts a good while. I have never found anything that cleans a remote control as fast and well...

So a few months ago I got a call from a guy in Louisville, Kentucky
telling me about this new covers project he was putting together and
asked if I'd contribute a track to benefit Teach for America. The
idea is that our generation of songwriters was "mentored" by those
who came before, and in this spirit we'd cover a track from some of
the greats of the sixties and seventies.

Recordings of Jerome Hines are scarce.Verdi Baritone Joseph Shore has a Tribute page that includes a link to a massive FTP database of Hines recordings/videos. They are mp3s, but my God..that voice. Please do yourself a favor and listen. The greatest bass that ever has lived.

I need a bad-assed Wotan..me being a bass and all, this is important to me.

The only one I have is the DG(James Morris, Gary Lakes, ).. Morris is the man, no doubts about it.

I wish that Jerome Hines had done a recording of the cycle...

I am sure this release has not escaped anyone's attention. The interesting aspect from my perspective was the inclusion of 24-bit 44.1 kHz FLAC files (alongside 320 kbps MP3 versions). Very irritating for those who like me already ordered the stereo boxed set on CD and were intending to rip the discs to FLAC anyway!

Speakers have dips in their impedance plot, some of them severe. These dips can create attenuations at the frequencies they appear at. A tube amplifier's feedback circuit will attempt to compensate for this, but it may degrade overall sound quality. I have found that using the 4-ohm tap will help compensate for impedance dips. This only works if the speakers' nominal impedance is 8 ohms. Power output will increase with a descending seen impedance (unless speakers go below 4 ohms) much like a solid state amplifier.

It seems that there are threads here & there in audio forums these days in which I see racist or borderline racist comments bantered about lightly. I saw a thread in our Stereophile forum, forget which thread, where Michigan Frog wrote something involving phrases like Chop Socky, phrases that are really too outdated to be racist than silly, really, but the content and tone were not so light hearted that it really was offensive to an Asian person like me (thanks for pointing that out, ncdrawl, appreciate that.)

So I picked up a mint Dusty Springfield's Best from waaaay back in the day, thinking it be a nice addition to my growing library of 60's classics records. I've scored a bunch of great early Stones, Beatles, CSN, and a lot of other gems from the local used record store, but this alas was not one.