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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

Worth it just for that tilt-down programming pad on the upper right.

I feel your pain! For what it's worth, I first replaced my unbalanced RCA interconnects from my EQ to my power amp with RCA-to-XLR cables (RCA out from the EQ since the EQ has only unbalanced jacks, and XLR in to the power amp). That did not entirely solve the issue but it did help: It...

Just chiming in to say that despite all the acrimony, I've found this thread highly educational (and amusing on occasion as well). I'm dealing with a minor ground-loop issue in my component chain: source component 3-prong, pre/EQ 2-prong, power amp 3-prong, and sadly unbalanced interconnects...

Actually, no. That's true for a forum in general, but this is a Mac-specific subforum explicitly for folks interested in McIntosh gear. So when you jump into a thread with an admittedly completely uninformed and useless bit of speculation in response to the OP ("could be 1 watt, I don't know")...

Not going affect PDF or any other Adobe apps or technology. The vast majority of online video has moved away from Flash. Should be minimal impact. Good riddance to it!

Thanks for documenting your work here. Very interesting. I hope things continue to look up!

I think it looks great, and I commend you on your ingenuity. Polycarbonate definitely scratches, but it does not turn into a scratch-filled mess like acrylic/plexiglass. In normal, careful use, you shouldn't have any problems with scratching.

Fedex Ground/Home Delivery is the worst of the major delivery services. Unfortunately the experiences detailed here are not unusual. I never use Fedex ground to ship, and whenever possible I avoid them when I am the buyer/recipient as well.

If it were USPS, I would say it's 99% that they just missed a scan and it will show up as updated in the system at a later date. With UPS, I would say that's less likely but still possible. Depending on where you are located and where the shipper is located, it could take 6-7 days to reach you...

Yes, mine does its job: plays music with what I perceive as good fidelity, and gives me enjoyment on a daily basis.

So no price gouging then. It's a simple matter to check a seller's location - every Discogs item for sale says where it ships from.

Folks should be aware that on October 1, Discogs will require all sellers to have a "shipping policy" set up for everything in their inventory - and as sellers scramble to get those policies set up, this is now starting to affect the shipping price that shows up on buyers' invoices. Here's what...

Yes, in 2013 there was a Pallas USA but the vinyl was all pressed in Germany. Also, Discogs guidelines say that the Country field of each entry (pressing) in the database should be listed for the main county of distribution, not manufacturing. So every pre-2018 Pallas LP will be pressed in...

Wow - fantastic luck and good decision to get the second, inexpensive one from eBay. Your dearly departed first one can be a parts donor if necessary. In the end it seems like you did fine. All's well that ends well.

Yikes.

You're laboring under an incorrect assumption. I've used ffmpeg quite a lot - as had anyone who's used Audacity to convert files. Ffmpeg is great, as are several other high-quality converters. And same to you. :bye:

Seems to matter to you at least a little.

To each their own. I certainly can't tell high-bitrate mp3 or AAC from lossless. But a lossy conversion of a medium-bitrate lossy source - like YouTube 128k AAC to mp3 - that produces audible effects in my experience.

Fair enough - although you don't really want an extension or web site that converts YouTube audio, since YouTube audio already is lossy encoded from the original uploading process. So you want to keep the original YT audio format (which is almost always 128k AAC).

Yes, by far the best way is to use one of many free web sites: you paste in the URL of the YouTube video, and the web site spits out a series of downloadable options (most of them are different video resolutions, but the audio is the same). Easy.

My question too. Did some quick Googling and apparently it's a real, idiomatic expression. At any rate, great thread, really interesting RE the CR-7a.

Amazing find - congratulations!

FWIW my father (who's had a fairly serious hi-fi setup of one sort or another for the past 60 years) bought a pair of Kappa 9s new in the early 90s and recently replaced the shot domes with a pair that cost, I believe, under $250 for the pair, and he's over the moon - says the speakers sound...

I take your point, but even keeping the clipping threshold constant, many of the pro amps sacrifice a degree of noise and distortion performance for robustness and power. Nothing wrong with that, and the increased distortion in particular might not be audible. The noise, though, I'd be a little...