Hi all- Yeah, it be nice to have a dedicated DIY section, but this will do for now. I just posted a photo of my latest DIY project- a TT isolation plinth, integrated into a new main shelf of my custom stereo cabinet. Based on a sort fine woodworking approach to a lot of the roller block/plinth designs you might see out there. Details at the photo gallery but suffice to say it did a lot more than I had even hoped for sonically!

TT Plinth and Shelf

Does anyone here know who owns www.hometheatertalk.net? They stole the Room Setup video from my company's web site, stripped out our name and copyright info, inserted a link to their own web site, and posted it at Yahoo Videos and Spike.com and possibly other sites.

Stereophile is a very good read but I really miss reviews of Classic American hifi brands. Be a bit more proud on your heritage !!

I am still not clear on the ability of a Windows Media Player based music server to pass digital audio data without affecting the data in any way. Based on some of the posts to this forum I have disabled all equalizers, etc. on both WMP and the Realtek Audio Manager on my PC. But, WMP is set to use 24 bit audio. Under the Realtek Audio Manager S/PDIF output sampling rate is set to 96kHz and output source is set to digital. Can Windows still affect the digital data?

In the September issue, Fred Kaplan reviews the Krell Evolution 505 CD player.

Can someone explain to me in layman's terms how it is that a CD player can operate in a "current domain" vs a "voltage domain"?

My understanding that as per Ohm's law, Current is the function of Voltage divided by resistance. So, what's within the chain of the components that provides sufficient resistance as to make the signal flowing from one component to another a function of the "current" rather than typical voltage?

I just found out that a downloaded the new David Byrne & Brian Eno album, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" is available for $8.99! The aqlbum is available as 320 kbps mp3 files but for the same price, it is also available as the mp3 files plus 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLACs! The "media bundle" package also comes with a hi-res album cover (1000 x 1000 pixels), and a PDF of lyrics and liner notes. Both the flac and mp3 file have tags, but you may want/need to edit the tags to conform your particular tagging scheme.

I would like to suggest the "General Rants N' Raves" forum be divided in to the "General" and the "Rants N' Raves" category's, for obvious reasons.

RG

Hi! I recently posted asking for advice about a system. I got a good deal on a pair of martin logan fresco i speakers a dynamo bass and a vignette speaker (both also martin logan) I am planning on using the vignette as a center speaker below the plasma and the two frescos on the sides. Can somebody recommended me the best possible amp or ht receiver? I said before that my budget was $2,000 but i am willing to go up to $3,000 if it can make a difference on performance. Also can somebody recommend me a some good cables.