PBS, Politics, Information, & Tweaks

PBS, Politics, Information, & Tweaks

Nov 29, 2007 First Published:Jul 01, 1995

In this month's "Letters," Donald Bisbee raises the subject of the government's proposed reduction in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), I agree with Mr. Bisbee that commercial radio broadcasting in the US is an intellectual desert. Music is narrowcast, with listeners' tastes bound into predigested categories. There is no depth or analysis to radio news programs, other than discussions by populist commentators who, no matter what you may think of their politics, usurp the ability of their audiences to think for themselves. As a regular listener to NPR and watcher of PBS, I feel that public broadcasting is an essential factor in American public discourse (footnote 1), but not for the reasons some might think.

Stacked Like Me

Stacked Like Me

Nov 29, 2007

Clover Stroud's new 36DD's take her for a spin. Not surprisingly, she busted guys ogling her chest, but she also got the cold, um, shoulder from women—at least, that was Clover's take on the subject.

Third speaker in your stereo

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Submitted by BillB on

I use a third speaker, in the rear, in my 2 channel set-up. I learned about it from one of Brian Eno's early albums. It's wired across the two "hot" terminals of the left and right amp outputs, so it extracts the "difference" signal from the stereo channels. Just one passive speaker; no extra amplification needed. It adds a little more depth and dimensionality to the overall sound. You can put a potentiometer in there to adjust level, but in my setup I don't, I just "set" the relative level by the distance and orientation of the speaker from the front speakers.

Have you ever been fooled by a sound system?

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Submitted by Elk on

While I have heard many sound reproduction systems I have yet to hear one that truly recreates the sound of unamplified acoustic instruments playing or a voice singing in a real space.

I have experienced quite a few wonderfully enjoyable systems that capture a great deal of the sound and emotional impact, but none that sound truly real.

That is, if I close my eyes I don't even begin to believe that there are real instruments or a singer in front of me.

Connecting 2 integrateds -- how do I do this?

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Submitted by jhendrix on

Hi folks,

I am told it is possible to run my "A" speakers from my main integrated amp, connect this amp to another amp, and run my "B" speakers from the second amp. I would like to be able to switch "A or B", "A and B" and "neither".

Could one of you learned folks tell me how I connect up the two amps? Thanks!

Mc C2200 Troubleshooting

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Submitted by AVelez on

Hello everybody
I'm new in the stereophile forum and it seem to me to be a good place to talk about audio hardware problems.
My Pre Mc C2200 is Kaput, sound is very low, with no dynamics and it seems that tubes are ok but I'm not sure. The pre-amp has about 500-600 h use in my house. I buy it new but it arrived allready open and I don't no if it was used. Can anybody suggest one reason for the problem. Anyway, if it is from tubes (2x12AX7A or 2x12AT7A), shoud I replace them with original ones or with some others?

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