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From: ec49726@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Manny DeSoto)
Subject: Looking for a DLRC for the Sony 2020 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:25:01 GMT

Anybody out there know where I can get the DLRC unit (i believe it is the
RMK 2020s ) for the 2020? It is the comtroll unit that allows you to link
a remote to another room and listen to stuff from the same reciever. 
Anyone willing to sell one?
Anyone have any comments on it?

Email to 
ec49726@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

-MD

-- 
Manny DeSoto                                 |  Life is what happens while 
NREMT-A, CPR/BLS - Instructor  ARC / AHA     |  you're making other plans.
University Of Illinois @ Urbana - Champaign  |      
Illini Emergency Medical Services            |    ec49726@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
Subject: Re: Pre-amp/Tuner & Amp recommendations
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:44:48 GMT

ahchan@rd.hydro.on.ca (Arthur Chan) writes:

>reeve@steam.Xylogics.COM (Scott Reeve) writes:
>: I'm seriously considering upgrading from my receiver to seperates.
>: I'm looking to spend a total of 1K on the pre-amp/tuner and amp.
>: If anyone could recommend a make, I would appreciate it.
>: 
>: btw, my speakers are Vandersteen 2Ce.
>: 
>: Also, if there's a FAQ, please let me know.
>: 
>: Thanks - Scott
>
>I use the Adcom 500 preamp-tuner and 555 amp to drive my Vandersteen 2Ce.  It
>sounds ok.  I think the new 555II is better than the my old one.  If you use
>the Adcom 545, you will probably make it under 1K.  My friend uses a NAD
>receiver to drive his 2Ce and he is satisfied with it.
>
>I listened to a pair of 2Ces driven by the B&K amp and preamp at one store. 
>They sounded just as good if not better.  The best sound I have heard from the
>Vandersteen is when they were driven (at a store) by a (50W) Krell amp.  IMHO,
>the Adcom is your best bet if you include the tuner in your budget.

	You might also want to try the Parasound gear. I got the TDQ-260 Tuner,
P/FET-900II Preamp, and HCA-500 50wpc amplifier for just inder $900. (The
dealer cut me quite a deal.) Many people (myself included) like the Parasound
gear better than the Adcoms.

	The Adcom and B&K stuff is very high quality, and I would give them
a listen, as well.

							-Cal
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Email me, baby!   cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu   cjl1@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: checksix@flyboy.EBay.Sun.COM (Al Conte)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Stereophile High-End show
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:50:35 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: checksix@flyboy.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: flyboy.ebay.sun.com
Keywords: Listen up

For those of you needing this information:

The Audiophile show comming in March will be held at the San Francisco Marriott,
which is on 55 Fourth St., will be held on the days of Mar. 12 thru the 14th.
Tickets can be picked up at the door for 25 big ones, or purchased thru
Stereophile for 15 bucks.
For purchasing info, call (505) 984-2716 or
for faxing your credit card, (that always makes me nervous) (505) 984-1737

The mailing address is: Hi-Fi'93. The Stereophle High-End Show.
                        P.O. Box 5529 Santa Fe, Nm 87502


hope this helps,

Al Conte



Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: rdw56612@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rick Waller)
Subject: THX w/o THX equipment?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:30:19 GMT
Keywords: THX, theater

I am interested in putting together a home theater.  I would like to use
professional JBL speakers and professional amplifiers (possibly Crest Audio).
I have seen a couple systems done with this exact configuration in a
magazine.  I was wondering if it was possible to achieve THX specifications
using this non-THX equipment.  I realize that in order to make a true
THX home theater, you have to use THX certified equipment and have a THX
certified installer tune it to the proper setting.  But do you think a THX
installer would be willing to tune the system I have in mind to as-close-as-
possible THX standards.  Possibly using equilizers and else to achieve the
result.  I guess I'm asking if THX standards are possible without THX 
equipment and if an installer would be willing to tune it to THX.

Thanks for the help.

Rick Waller
rdw56612@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: smv3@po.CWRU.Edu (Sean M. Vadas)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: CD Changer Suggestions?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 03:23:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: smv3@po.CWRU.Edu (Sean M. Vadas)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I am looking to buy a new CD changer, preferable for under $500.
What would you suggest?  I have a Denon receiver, a Nakamichi tape
deck and Pinnacle speakers.
Thanks  
--
From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Digital critics - sampling argument is nonsense
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:37:26 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1993Jan20.211233.37643@watson.ibm.com> zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers) writes:
>I recently witnessed another case of the analog sentimentalist trying
>to use the 'sampling' argument to lodge a complaint against Digital.
>
>It was MTV, with they're nifty diagrams showing how sampled digital sound
>loses information because of the 'choppy' digital waveform. Unfortunately,

Sorted out by oversampling.

>critics are pressing this argument and misleading the public, due to their
>ignorance of the Nyquist Sampling theorem. All of you digital skeptics, 
>please note that CD's capture ALL frequencies up to 44.5 KHz, reproducing

:-)  Number blunder, but others have pointed that out.

>them faithfully (butter than vinyl, I argue). Frequencies above 44.5 KHz
>don't matter, that's far above the threshold of hearing anyway :)

So it is.

It sounds like the analogue proponents on MTV were flat earthers who just
refuse to accept that digital is the way forward.

On the other hand, you get analogue users like myself who still like LPs
for the simple reason that they sound better to us, as JJ pointed out quite
eloquently thankyou very much.

On the other hand, just why CDs sound bad to some of us is a matter of
great argument and again as JJ pointed out the above arguments are very
dubious.

What does please me is that the designers of digital designers are finally
coming down off their high horses where they have sat for so long claiming
that digital is perfect and are now listening to those of us who have
complained about the sound and they are finding that we may well have a
point and are *DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT* rather than declaring us all
loonies who want to live in caves or whatever.  HDCD no doubt stems from a
lot of learning between both camps and I openly welcome it.  If at last it
gives me CDs I can happily live with then *YIPPEE!* is all I can say.
Until it becomes freely available though I will keep spinning and buying
vinyl because I find it captures the sound in a way that communicates with
*ME*. 


-- 
Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms.  :-)

Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: swkong@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sieg Wooi Kong)
Subject: *** Help in mail-order Yamaha RX-V850??? ***
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:14:24 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA


Hi netters....
I have decided to purchase the Yamaha RX-V850 after a lot of 
consideration and help from netters response (thanks!) but now
I'm facing a problem. The company I was going to buy from thru
mail order says that once Yamaha discontinued the product, they
will not carry any more. The company btw is Shoppers Advantage.
So I was wondering if any of you out there has a purchased the
receiver thru mail order and is recommendable to purchase from
the mail order company. 6th Avenue is one of the company's who
sells the model but it is not adviseable to buy from them.
So if anyone out there who can help me....
E-mail me at swkong@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu

Mel


Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: jwg@acd4.acd.com (Jim Grey)
Subject: Re: Expensive Stereo and a roommate
Organization: /u/jwg/.organization
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:44:52 GMT

In rsilvers@nynexst.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:20:53 GMT, he sez:
In article <kjg3_1r@rpi.edu> weavej@aix.rpi.edu (Jonathan Mark Weaver) writes:
>>
>>I have a ~$2000 stereo system and a roommate who likes to use it while
>>I'm away (without asking of course).  I'm especially concerned about
>>my new Nakamichi tape deck. He doesn't really know to switch between
>>types I, II, and IV and he usually has those crummy type I tapes, plus
>>he tends to leave the cassette holder door open (which lets dust in).  >
>>My question is how do I handle the situation without sounding like a
>>jerk? I want to hear from people who have been in similar situations.  
>>
>
>	You could just clean your heads often and not worry about what
>tape type it is set for (as it is only his loss).  Leaving the cassette
>door open bothers me.  It would make me worry about his level of common
>sense and feeling of respect for your equipment.  I may not let him use
>it because he left the door open.
>
>					--Rob.


Heck, if it's YOUR equipment, you have every right to say, "Hey, don't use
it without my permission."  You are obviously concerned for the health of
your system... why not just ask for what you *really* want in the first 
place?  If this roommate is any kind of friend, he *will* understand, or
come to understand.

jim grey
jwg@acd4.acd.com
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: feil@prl.philips.nl (Hans Feil)
Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:30:37 GMT

ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:

>In article <GLAS.93Jan21081603@muresh.et.tudelft.nl> glas@donau.et.tudelft.nl writes:
>>

>>PASC is based on two phenomena of the human ear:
>>* One can only hear sound above a certain level, called the absolute hearing threshold.
>>* Loud sounds hide, or mask, softer sounds in their vicinity. They dynamially adapt the
>>  hearing threshold. This applies to the frequency domain (spectral masking) as well as to 
>>  the tiem domain (temporal masking).
>>So you have to be a GOD to hear the differences between CD and DCC.

>Well Jack, I have run experiments on at least 25 or 30 people who must
>be Gods.  Under tightly controlled, double blind conditions, they can
>tell the difference on certain audio materials with complete
>reliability.   No lossy compression scheme is "perfect" - there will
>always be listeners who find non-transparency under critical
>materials.  This does not mean that this kind of compression is not of
>very high quality, nor that it won't suffice for "average" listeners
>under non-critical conditions.  I can send you published reports from
>my lab if you wish.>
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
>Internet: ted.grusec@crc.doc.ca - (613) 998 2762 - Fax (613) 993 8657


I wonder what happens with the MiniDisk tests?

In all kinds of european audio journals DCC and MD are compared with
CD and you may be interested in the results of these tests!

Hans Feil
Philips Research Labs
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
feil@prl.philips.nl

PS. I'm not working on DCC (but on computational materials science) but
off course I may be a little biased......
Xref: sparky rec.audio:19634 rec.music.phish:7384
From: slin@cisco.com (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: type III tapes
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:43:37 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: regal.cisco.com
In-reply-to: kega@nobeltech.se's message of Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:33:43 GMT


   From:    kega@nobeltech.se (Kent Gabrin)
   Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.music.phish
   Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 93 09:33:43 GMT

   In article <fhq39vj@rpi.edu> monitn@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto) write
   s:
   >falcon@camelot.bradley.edu (D. Nathan Hood) writes:
   >Type III was an audio tape back many years ago. It (obviously) fell between II
   >(CrO2) and IV ('metal'), and I believe was some kind of hybrid of the two. It
							    ^^^^^^
   >fell out of use some time ago, and has no individual support on today's gear.
   >As far as I know it has nothing to do with video tape.

     Yes, a type III tape is a tape with two layers. One type I and one
   type II. The most advantage was that the noise lever was mostly lower
   than of type I and type II. The disadvantage was, I guess, the problem
   to manufacture them with stable quality.

I believe type III tapes were often made out of FeCr (FerroChrome).

Steve
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: thumper@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Swarm)
Subject: RE: Strange problem with Sony/JBL speakers.
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:41:35 GMT


	I auditioned the JBL 3800 last year and I found them to be bass-deficient.
They just can't take much power before they break-up.  At low volume, they were
fine, but turn it up past about 11:00 and they scream.  Don't be fooled by the 
name.  JBL makes some amazing stuff, but they also make crap, and the 3800 is of 
the latter category.  Trade either the speakers or the receiver and replace 
them/it.  Or live with it - not much else to do.  Good luck.

jeff
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:35:24 GMT

In article <1k4b32INN469@transfer.stratus.com> Arthur_Noguerola@vos.stratus.com writes:

>does any one of you love the MUSIC????????????? 

"Music is only used to test if you have wow & flutter."

Stan Freburg - from the Herman Horne Lectures on Hi-Fi - circa
1967 - CBS Radio show.
-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill@bilver.uucp
                - ..!{peora|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower)
Subject: Re: Speaker vent placement question
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:48:11 GMT

Najeeb writes:

>I have a Paradigm 7SEII and it is ported on the rear with two small bass ports.
>Both ports are vents from one enclosure.  

The Paradigm 11seMkII has three ports in the rear.  Two are right next
to each other, the third one is slightly farther away and towards
the bottom.   It almost appears that it ports into a seperate section
of the cabinent  (there are screws between the top two and the bottom
one which indicate the presence of a separating piece of MDF.)
From: BARRON@RHQVM14.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 07:50:07 EST
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Yamaha DSP A1000 prices...
Reply-To: barron@rhqvm14.VNET.IBM.COM

I purchased mine in Yonkers NY (10mi North of NYC) for $1,120 with
a 5 year extended warranty.  They 'beat' J&Rs price and threw in the
warranty to boot.

A few comments....
1. I am delighted with the unit as an integrated A/V preamp/amp.  It
organizes everything on 1 remote, etc, etc.

2. The main amp is not the best, but ok...I now run my main 2 speakers
with my Harmon K. Citation 19.   Vastly better sound.

3. There is a difference between using the A1000s preamp, and no preamp
that shows itself in a wider higher soundstage.   This difference however does
net out when you consider the added convenience offered.

4. The sub out is 200hz (unknown rolloff)...This is WAY WAY WAY too high.
The output level on this is also WAY WAY WAY too low.  I have to use this
in conjunction with an old Hafler preamp to boost the signal before
reaching a Phase Linear 400 that I use as the sub amp (good sensativity...
the problem is definately the Yamaha).  Then I use a passive xover to give
me a 12db rolloff at 60 Hz.

Organization: Advantis Advanced Technology
Disclaimer: This reflects the poster's views, not those of Advantis
News-Software: Usenet 3.0
X-X-From: Dave Barron

Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: bodie@plains (Justin M. Bodie)
Subject: Scratchy CD player
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:45:54 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


My disc player/boom box, a 4 year-old JVC PC-V2, sounds like a scratchy
record now when I play certain discs.  It doesn't skip, just sounds like
crap.  It's bad on some discs, but not too bad on others.  Does anyone have
any idea what I can check out inside the case?

Justin :)

............................................................................
      Justin M. Bodie        |Fan of: Arrested Development, Aladdin, Soccer
Soph, Electrical Engineering |NOT   : Country Music, Tampa Bay Lightning 
  North Dakota State, Fargo  |I like traffic lights... not when they are red
Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: stud1b53@bnr.ca (Anshu Prasad)
Subject: Re: Paradigm speaker comparisons
Reply-To: stud1b53@bnr.ca 
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 21:00:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.172531.3867@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally) writes:
|> 
|> The Export monitor is a 2 way speaker, the 11s are floor standing
|> 3-ways. Again I personally prefer the Export Monitor to the 11se.
|> I owned a pair for years and found it be an excellent speaker. It is
|> a bit smoother and more open sounding than the 11se. Bass is excellent.
|> 

  I also auditioned the Exports against the 11se's, albeit in less than
ideal listening conditions.  I thought the Export was clearly the better
speaker.  Better mid-range and imaging as well as more clarity than the
11se's (which I actually found a little muddy).  Upon auditioning a 
number of other Paridigm speakers, I feel that the Export is the best 
they've got to offer in the $700 - $1500 (CDN) range.

-- 
   __ ___  
  /\ \ \ \  Anshu Prasad                        stud1b53@bnr.ca
 /--\ \/_/  Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
/_/  \_\    All opinions are my own, not my employer's, BNR Ltd

Newsgroups: rec.audio
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: independent volume controls for Dolby Pro-Logic A/V Receivers
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:01:10 GMT

>Why would you have a problem with just a rear level and or a center
>chanel level?

>What balance problems would you have with this set up?

If the room or speaker placement is non-symmetrical, these would be useful
to equalized the apparent volume to the listener.

-- 

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From: shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing on the recording end?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:49:35 GMT
Followup-To: rec.audio
Organization: BBN
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

In article <1993Jan26.113642.11145@eng.cam.ac.uk>, cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M.
Hicks) wrote:
> No - low-bit converters with oversampling are MUCH cheaper, and so find
> their way into a lot of consumer DAT decks etc. Typical arrangements are
> 64xOS, 4-bit and 256xOS, 1-bit, since chips are readily available.
  ...etc...

Perhaps I don't understand the particular processes that you are referring
to well enough, but it sounds to me like you're getting playback
oversampling and recording oversampling confused. Do the same methods work
at both ends of the audio chain? After all, the computed oversampling in
playback is specifically designed to make sure that the interpolated
samples don't contain additional high-frequency signals. Recording
oversampling will, however, provide data that may very well contain >22.05
kHz freqencies that have to be FTed away.

Would jj care to comment?

-Kerry
From: ajc4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ANTHONY JAMES CACIOLO)
Newsgroups: rec.audio
Subject: NEW YAMAHA DSP-A2070
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:30:16 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Anybody heard anything about the new Yamaha dsp-a2070, their new top of the
line A/V receiver which lists for $1999?

tony
From: kirk@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk Lindstrom)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:48:33 GMT
Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again (was Re: Preamp and Amp)
Organization: Shredding the water of SF Bay, HP-OCD
Newsgroups: rec.audio

Happy TET!  

The fireworks have started early!

Cong Xi Fatt Choy

Kirk out
From: beaker@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Mike Aguilar)
Subject: Sony Walkman troubles
Keywords: walkman, bad, not good, suboptimal...
Organization: Will-Prove-for-Food Institute
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:34:55 GMT

Howdy!
	I recently purchased a Sony WM-FX55.  Except for a slight problem
it had with FF 90 minute tapes, I loved it.  Still, I *did* pay for a 
working model to I took it in to be serviced.  The problem was that 
on 90 minute tapes, it would frequently refuse to fast forward.  I'd
hit the FF button and it would make a funny noise and then just stop.
If I had hit FF while it was already playing, then it would reverse
the direction of playback.  (REW in the other 'direction'
would produce the same trouble.  On this walkman, FF and REW are relative
to the current playing direction.)  Anyway, I had it serviced and it
came back WORSE!!  Not only was the original problem still there, it now
played slow.  It was falling behind about 3sec/min (comparing it to my
deck at home).   
	I've taken it back and hopefully they'll get it right this time.
Anyway, has anyone else had this sort of trouble with (a) this model
of walkman and/or (b) Sony's service?  I find it amazing that the unit
came back to me worse after being 'repaired'.  And one of the 
service reps gave me this incredibly lame excuse about why she 
didn't catch the slow playing after the first 'repair':  this walkman
has an in-line remote and the headphone plug isn't the standard 1/8
inch plug.  She said that since she has normal headphones and didn't
have an adaptor around, she couldn't actually *listen* to the repaired
unit.  Well, this is at the Sony 'museum/shop' in downtown chicago
where just downstairs from where i spoke to this woman, i saw the
very same model of walkman on display with, you guessed it, an
adaptor plug so that shoppers can listen to it with various headphones.

Gak!

-mike