The Well-Tempered Arm Bill Sommerwerck, August 1986

The Well-Tempered Arm Bill Sommerwerck, August 1986

Remember Rube Goldberg? He was a cartoonist during the late 1920s to early 1950s who specialized in devising the most outlandish and ingenious devices ever conceived by man, before or since. A Rube Goldberg mousetrap, for example, would occupy an entire small room. In taking the bait, the mouse would tip a balance beam, dropping a steel ball into a gutter, down which the ball would roll to strike a paddle whose spin would wind up a string that hoisted a weight into the air until it reached a trigger at the top, which would then release the weight to drop onto the unsuspecting mouse. Splat!

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The Well-Tempered Arm

The Well-Tempered Arm

Sep 09, 2006 First Published:Apr 09, 1985

Remember Rube Goldberg? He was a cartoonist during the late 1920s to early 1950s who specialized in devising the most outlandish and ingenious devices ever conceived by man, before or since. A Rube Goldberg mousetrap, for example, would occupy an entire small room. In taking the bait, the mouse would tip a balance beam, dropping a steel ball into a gutter, down which the ball would roll to strike a paddle whose spin would wind up a string that hoisted a weight into the air until it reached a trigger at the top, which would then release the weight to drop onto the unsuspecting mouse. Splat!

Insanely priced components

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Submitted by tbng on

Yes, I know, "insanely priced" is relative. Bill Gates, for example, thinks nothing is insanely priced, especially his software. Since none among us has the budget of Bill Gates, I must challenge Stereophile's approach to ultra-expensive components and, by inference, all its electronics reviewing procedures. Single-ended testing cannot reveal subtle differences in amplification devices because there are no gross sound differences between today

Stereophile Test CD3 exposes a possible iTunes issue?

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Hi,

After going through a bunch of changes in my system (iTunes PC -> DAC1, etc), I brought out my Test CD3 (great stuff BTW, JA) and on the first track I was noticeing some pink noise on the wrong channel, not much, but enough. So I tried out my headphones, same thing. Then I tried Foobar, and that fixed it. I am kind of shocked. I am using WAV, and my Foobar installation which I never use is just a straight install, no ASIO, etc.

I am going to investigate this more, and see if this is an iTunes version issue, but if anybody else has some thoughts, please post!!

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