Hola,

I was reading about the physics of LP playback today, and ran into to some old stuff that gave me new questions.

According to some sources, a stylus tracking an LP at 2 grams can generate the equivalent of "12-14 tons of pressure" on the groove at the microscopic level.

Source: http://www.soundstage.com/vinyl/vinyl081999.htm

I also read claims that the temperature of the groove/stylus nexus reaches 315 degrees F, temporarily liquefying the vinyl as the stylus tracks it.

Hi to all! I'm sorry if I had to make a separate thread coz the newbie welcome sticky is already locked.

Hola,

I keep looking at that NextTag ad here for the NHT XD's and I'm drooling, but can't figure out a couple things...

The things come with 4 channels of amplification, with two woofer cones and two satellites. I re-read Kal's review, and he listed an amplifier in his associated equipment and also mentioned ease of matching them to an amp, leaving me unable to figure out what the four channels of amplification are for with the XD's.

I figure two for the woofers, but then what?

Greetings,
I've got a few questions for anyone who cares to give input. Here's my situation. I'm a video editor and am revamping my edit suite. The one area that is currently lacking is audio. Eventually I plan to mix work and pleasure with a hi-fi edit suite that caters to screening films, and run my music though it as well. However, as I do this piece by piece I also need the system to operate, even if incomplete. So my questions are:

So I've been ripping my CDs to Apple Lossless. What's a good software to burn Apple Lossless to Audio CD-R? And any difference between regular old stack of CD-Rs bought at Staples and those more expensive ones? Some people claim that in conversion from wav to lossless, something's lost & they could hear it. Is there something to this claim? I thought wav -> lossless -> wav was "lossless"...

Someone actually took some time and compiled this statistical data. I think it's a hoot!!!

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/194117.html

http://www.entertainment.msn.com/music/article.aspx/?news=322457&GT1=28102

I thought it was nice to see that they found people that enjoy the "warm" sound, and not just the nostalgia

I have been experiencing a lot of problems with the forum website lately.

Sometimes it doesn't appear at all. At other times I get a stream of SQL error messages.

Today I can get on, but it looks odd and the buttons do not all work as expected. For example, if I click on "main index" I get the Stereophile home page.

Are others having like problems?

Any chance we might see a review of the Channel Islands VDA-2 (and VAC-1 power supply) DAC anytime in Stereophile? I see lots of reviews, followups, references, etc. for the Benchmark DAC1 and may folks feel the VDA-2 is competitive for less money.
Thanks!