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Last Edited, May 3rd, 2012

A BIG WELCOME FROM VANCOUVER BC...

the California of Canada

(I actually live in Delta, a suburb of Vancouver)

This Site is More of a big personal blog of technical stuff etc. than a website.

New stuff is usually posted at the bottom of the page...

TO FIND INFO ON THIS PAGE, SIMPLY USE SEARCH IN YOUR BROWSER...

(it's what I do)

QUICK INTRODUCTION...

Purpose of this site...

Put simply, I have two fundamental passions,

1. Helping people

2. All forms of current and past technology

(I've found, the best way to learn about the future is to understand the past)

My personal interests include...

ALL forms of WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

(probably a good thing I work for Rogers Wireless LOL)

Audio including vintage & new along with Vinyl

Video / Photography / Computers

Ham Radio

in other words, anything with a plug on the end of it or a battery inside of it.

This site is a repository of things I am interested in and hopefully I can help others by sharing some of things I have learned,

I think it's in the DeMara / Leckie blood in me, to want to help others

Feel free to request to join my Facebook page as well. I post a lot articles on neat technology stuff.

www.facebook.com/pauldemara

So if I work with bleeding edge wireless technology all day, guess what I do at night.

Go home and play with all kinds of vintage, current and bleeding edge technology. LOL

In many cases technology that I simply couldn't afford when I was in my 20's, and 30's.

A lot of my focus over the last few years has been Vintage Audio gear and the science of good sound.

I've been testing and trying all kinds of different audio gear and technology to find out why certain types of audio technology sounds so much better than other technology.

So far I've tested and evaluated, open Reel to Reel, tape 8 track, Cassette, DCC or Digital Compact Cassette, DAT or Digital Audio Tape, CD's, SACD's, DVD Audio.

The bottom line. YOU SIMPLY CAN'T BEAT VINYL. it's truly a magical format that fosters an emotional response when you listen. Maybe that's why it's making a comeback.

Kind of ironic because Ted Roger's, the late founder of the company I work for believed the future was in FM Radio in the early 60's because of it's superior sound quality.

I can certainly relate to the importance of excellent sound quality.

I guess I truly am addicted to learning about technology, sharing it with others and applying this knowledge to what I do every day.

And you know, I wouldn't have it any other way...

Yours Truly - Paul DeMara

Webmaster contact:

Paul DeMara

604-644-7676

Main email pauldemara@gmail.com

Ham Radio Call Sign VE7PDZ

SKYPE VE7PDZ

My Facebook page... www.facebook.com/Pauldemara

FAMILY HISTORY CORNER...

The DeMara Family Crest

Pics of DeMara & Sons Insurance,

Started by my Great Grandfather in 1923 in Kelowna...

Located across from the Willow Inn Hotel which my Grandmother built.

Portrait shot of My Dad Monty Philip DeMara

April 1st 1932 - Nov 16, 1982

My Dad, Monty DeMara in the center of this picture, in front New Office of DeMara and Son's Insurance, Kelowna B.C.

Also two of my Dad's friends. Circa early 70's.

Very Cool - sent to me from Doug Irvine

A great article on my Dad's and his life and his contributions.

http://memorybc.ca/demara-monty;isaar

My Dad really believed in giving back to the community and was very active in the Kinsmen Club in Kelowna and the Kelowna Museum.

(We both shared a love for the past)

He was their Deputy Governor for the Kinsmen in 1967 and 1968.

http://ww.kelownakinsmen.com/accomplishments.htm

Their motto is "Serving the Community's Greatest Need"

MORE FAMILY HISTORY & HERITAGE HOMES IN KELOWNA...

A picture of my Grandfather Charles Marvin DeMara's home (circa 1937) on Abbott Street.

Very cool architecture (moderne)

http://www.kelowna.ca/CityPage/Docs/PDFs//Heritage/Abbott%20St%20Heritage%20Area.pdf

A BIT MORE DEMARA / LECKIE FAMILY HISTORY...

DAVID LECKIE... (My Great Grandfather)

Portrait of David Leckie, my great-grandfather,
who left Edinburgh for Canada at the age of 16.
Photo courtesy of Kelowna Museum Archives.

A neat article and photo of David Leckie's home in Kelowna. (built in 1906)

http://www.historicplaces.ca/fr/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7145

BELOW... A photo of David Leckie Hardware in the early 1900's.

The business was sold to the late WAC Bennett the 25th premier of our Province.

It was renamed Bennett's Hardware after the sale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._A._C._Bennett

David Leckie and WAC Bennett were good friends.

My dad went to school with Bill Bennett, WAC Bennett''s son, He was our 27th Premier of the BC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bennett

Bill Bennett was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of R.B. Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.

Monty DeMara my dad was born April 1st, 1932 and Bill Bennett was born August 18th 1932.

I guess they were good friends because Bill Bennett attended my Dad's funeral in Kelowna.

Kelowna sure was VERY small town back in the 30's and 40's.

Below, Leckie Hardware on Bernard Street

Kind of cool to have Kelowna streets named after him right in the heart of the commercial district of Kelowna. (Leckie Road, Leckie Place)

If you've been to Kelowna then you've driven past Leckie Road as it intersects Hwy 97 the main highway through town.

http://g.co/maps/a497k

I only became aware of our family's significant contribution to Kelowna's early economic growth after listening to the eulogies at my dad's funeral in 1982.

It sure was a humbling experience to find out what our family had done to help develop Kelowna's early economy.

(I guess when your are young, you don't really see the big picture...)

MEDIA CORNER...

BC Hydro did a terrific story on my whole house LED re-lamp project. VERY COOL !!!

I really wanted to get the GREEN message out there as I think it's super important for people to know about this IMPORTANT new technology. Maybe if everyone in BC converted to LED bulbs we might not have to flood another valley and build another dam.

http://www.bchydro.com/news/conservation/2012/house-full-of-LEDs.html

And, YES you CAN convert you entire house to LED light bulbs...

ROI should be 3 to 4 years.

The best part is I DON'T have to change any more light bulbs for another 25 years or longer. :-)

Podcasts of my recent guest appearances on Dottotech with my good friend Steve Dotto talking about mobility.

Dottotech broadcasts weekly on CISL 650 radio at 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

http://dottotech.com/search/node/demara

MY VINTAGE AUDIO EQUIPMENT...

For those of you who are curious as to what audio gear I run,

(Everyone seems to ask for advice on this)

Forget about brands and specifications...

If you like your sound and feel an emotional buzz when you listen then you've arrived.

I'm a big Jazz fan, so when I close my eyes I want to feel Miles or Diana standing in front of me...

I'm also a big Marantz fan. Their stuff just works for me...

DAC DISCOVERY...JULY 2011

DIGITAL can in fact, sound REALLY GOOD !!!

RECENT DAC DISCOVERY.. (Yes VINYL is still better)

Have to thank my buddy Steve W for some new knowledge on the Philips TDA-1541 DAC

As well, my bud Gord from Innovative Audio also encouraged me to take the plunge into a stand along DAC...

Turns out the AMAZING Philips TDA 1541 ladder type 16 bit DAC has a HUGE audiophile fan bas out there.

The Lampizator in Europe really brought all this to my attention.

http://lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/TDA1541%20corner/TDA1541.html

So now own what I consider to be one of the ultimate DAC's ever built.

The Sony DAS-R1 and CDP-R1combo, circa 1986

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/product/1980/cdp-r1.html

The DAS-R1 and CDP-R1 sold for $8,000 US in 1986 ($10,000 cdn)

You know that Sony used a Philips TDA-1541 S1 in the DAS-R1 statement piece, not their own DAC chips.

hmmmm wonder why that would be...

The renowned Ken Ishiwata also redesigned the Marantz CD10, 11, 16 from a one bit DAC 7 to a 16 bit TDA-1541.

http://kipearl.marantz.eu/

http://marantz.co.uk/uk/AboutUs/Pages/KenIshiwata.aspx

So why would you care?

Well if you love the emotion of music like I do you need to audition one of the CD players listed below.

They all are running TDA-1541 DAC's (chart courtesy of Lampizator web site)

I would even suggest an audition CD players with the older first gen Philips TDA-1540 like the Marantz CD-73 and others.

My guess is post audition, you will realize what you've been missing and might even play a few less vinyl records.

MUSIC is all about Stirring YOUR EMOTIONS and the TDA-1541 DAC seems to do that in spades

Just picked this pair up (Jan 2011)

The VERY RARE...

Marantz Esotec SC-9 Control amp

Marantz Esotec SM-6 Power Amp

(30 watts Class A or 120 watts Class A/B)

Circa 1981 ish.

Some of the best non tube gear that Marantz ever produced.

The build quality is second to non and the sound is as smooth and transparent as it gets. (Very much, tube like)

Audio Nervana... I would say so.

Not only do they sound amazing, but they look amazing...

The Champagne Gold finish is just stunning to look at.

Now I just have to find the Marantz Esotec SC-8 Tuner and SD 7 cassette deck. That might take a while... LOL

These pieces are in VERY HIGH demand by Marantz fans.

Photo's taken by yours truly, Paul DeMara Feb 13, 2011

April 2011

My new Marantz SD 9000 3 Head Cassette Deck...

Turns out there is no Esotec SD-7 in champagne (only black) so the SD-9000 DBX is the way to go. The Esotec SD-7 and SD-9000 have the exact same specs plus the SD-9000 has the supreme noise reduction technology of DBX

Ahhh, the magic analogue sound of a 1982 Marantz cassette deck...

You just can't beat and well engineered cassette deck...

It needed cleaning and belt replacement but wow does it sound good!

FYI, the below models do have a potential issue with optical (opti) coupler problems which can cause some problems including playback for only a few seconds when the play button is pushed.

Marantz SD-9000 / SD 9000

Marantz SD-9020 / SD 9020

Marantz SD-8000 / SD 8000

Marantz SD-8020 / SD 8020

Marantz Esotec SD-7 / SD 7

There's some great info on the net about this issues and hence I'd suggest a Google search to look up what others have done to try to fix this troublesome issue.

My deck didn't have the optical coupler issue but some early production decks out there may have it.

Vintage Kenwood Rock turntable & Marantz audio gear...

and LOTS of Records...

Marantz CD73

Marantz CD63 - The ORIGINAL CD PLAYER FROM 1982 (not part of the above picture)

HANSS Record Cleaner - Makes a HUGE difference when you clean your vinyl...

The rest of the records...

Sept 2010

HK A-500 / A-50 / A500 / A50 TUBE AMP...

My New Harmon Kardon HK A-500 Tube amp from 1962.

Wow what a sleeper. Still has the original tubes... (Date coded 61 / 22)

I shot the first 3 pictures with the camera set to to be a bit warm so you can really see the 7355 military grade output tubes glowing away.

The last picture has the correct white balance.

Ah tube amps. There is nothing like a tube amp for warm sound.

DEC 2011

Also acquired the Harmon Kardon T500 / T50XK Tuner

My 2003 YAMAHA RX-Z1 FLAGSHIP RECEIVER in CHAMPAGNE/GOLD (EXTREMELY RARE)

Uses the stunning Burr Brown PCM1704 DAC's. Very impressive receiver. Weighs in at over 70 lbs. Super simple to operate and actually has a simple to get to STEREO mode with REAL, not menu driven bass and treble controls . When in Stereo mode the bass can be sent to the sub output. In other words this receiver is the best of both worlds. Stereo and Multi-channel. The two biggest got-cha's are a fixed 80 Hz turnover for the sub out and no HDMI jacks. I prefer component anyway as this type of video connection completely eliminates dialogue time alignment / lip sync issues when watching high def content. The RX-Z1 isn't perfect but it's pretty darn close in my mind.

I had to take a picture of my Champagne RX-Z1 because you CAN'T find a picture of one of these on the internet in champagne / gold. I am lucky enough to have two of these. One in champagne and one in Black.

Link to the Burr Brown 1704 DAC press release...

http://www.stereophile.com/news/10221/

Link to Burr Brown PCM-1704 Spec Sheet in PDF

THE RX-Z1 has TONS of connections on the back. This is where I like to play...Note the large number digital audio connections and 3 100 MHz component video jacks as well as dual room support.

You can hook up the kitchen sink to this bad boy...

A good review on the Yamaha RX-Z1

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/receivers/yamaha-rx-z1

How things look in the stand.

Had to move the RX-Z1 to the middle of the stand because it's just over 70 LBS and was actually bending the glass.

YIKES... (Total weight of all equipment is over 350 LBS)

The Whole room...

My Paradigm Studio Monitor V3-20 Speakers. Truly AMAZING sound.

The bass is handled by a separate subwoofer.

A SUMMARY OF MY MAIN SYSTEM...

ALL EQUIPMENT IS CHAMPAGNE GOLD COLORED

(In OTHER WORDS RARE STUFF)

1. Oracle Delphi Mark I turntable. with a grace 707 tone arm and Grado Gold Cartridge. About as good as Analogue can get.

2. Luxman K373 3 Head Cassette Deck. Even has a demagnetize button - Stunning performer with chrome tape

3 Sony MDP-333ES - As good as it gets for minidisc and has LP2 LP4 mode (only ES deck to support this)

4. Yamaha RX-Z1 flagship receiver in EXTREMELY RARE champagne/gold (Almost 70 Lbs.)

5. Marantz CD-6000 CD Recorder. - I use this to make DTS CD's from Records. Cool Man.

6 Marantz DV-7001 DVD Player with DVD-Audio and SACD playback - VERY Nice sound and video

7. Sony DTC-60ES DAT recorder with Sony Super Bit Mapping technolgy - Also used for making 5.1 and 2.0 DTS recordings

8. Sony CDP-X779ES reference CD Player. IT weighs almost 40 Lbs. AMAZING TRANSPORT and Smooth Sound from a CD

9 Paradigm Reference 20 V3 Bookshelf Speakers bolted to their matching stands.

Some other equipment I own as well...with links...

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_10_4/yamaha-rx-z1-receiver-11-2003-part-1.html

http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=200262&CTID=5000300

2. Yamaha DVD-CX1 DVD / DVD flagship 5 disc audio player in RARE champagne

http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/productdetail.html?CNTID=200308&CTID=5001700

3. Sony MDS-JA30ES Minidisc player in RARE champagne (looking for a JA50ES in champagne)

REALLY hard to find, bought this one from Germany

http://www.minidisc.org/ja30es_review.html

4. Sony CDP-X779ES CD player in VERY RARE champagne Serial #25

(Considered to be one of the ultimate CD players of all time)

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyes/CDPX7series/CDPX7-X779ES.html

5. Sony MDP-V7 Laser disc player in champagne (VERY RARE in Canada)

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/sony/sony_mdp-v7/sony_mdp-v7.htm

6. Sony DTC-57ES DAT deck in RARE champagne

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyes/DTC57ES/DTC57ES.html

7. Oracle Delphi MK1 Turntable.. NICE A work of Art from the early 80's

http://www.hifiengine.com/gallery/oracle-delphi-mk1.shtml

8. Cambridge Audio 540P phono preamp

http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/preamplifiers/cambridge-audio/azur-540p/PRD_334479_1591crx.aspx

9. Paradigm Studio 60 V3 Reference Speakers (AMAZING VALUE FOR THE MONEY)

You got to warm them up for about 20+ minutes and then WOW !!!

Yes warming them up DOES make a difference.

Prepare to be IMPRESSED with detail that sends a shiver up your spine.

(has happened a few times when listening to some good vinyl)

"I was floored - absolutely floored ... left me breathless ...
WHAT CLARITY. WHAT DEPTH. WHAT SUBLIMITY!"

http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1204paradigm/

My NEW / old Oracle Delphi MK1 Turntable

A classic work of art from 1979/1980...

(actual picture of mine sitting on my kitchen countertop

with at Grace 707 tone arm and Grado Gold Cartridge

NICE !!!!!)

Equipment like this makes CD's sound like a transistor radio.

Well it's not that CD's are that bad.

Just that LPs do sound a whole lot better.

Some interesting reading from TNT

http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/turntabletest_e.html

MY COMMENTS ON RECORDS / LP's

I have just recently re-found how wonderful analogue LP's sound. I still have lots of CD's, SACD's, DVD Audio and DTS CD discs but the LP's sound amazing to me and there is SO much more software out there in the form of LP's vs. SACD, DVD DTS CD audio discs. I am also collecting SQ, QS and CD-4 (channel discrete) 4 channel quad records as well. Again amazing warm smooth sound.

Yup Vinyl is back. Actually it never left. We all just got caught up in the CD / MP3 Hype.

Even my Son who is 21 says "wow dad that really sounds good compared to my MP3's"

EXACTLY...

PLEASE don't throw those old albums out. Find a new home for them, better yet get that turntable out and fire it up. Even a modest turntable can sound amazing. You may want to invest in a new cartridge as this can really make a difference. Cartridge technology has really improved over the last 20 years. E.g. a new Grado Blue or Green cartridge can be had for around $50.00 and it will BLOW you away with what it can do. The Silver and Gold Grado's are even more amazing.

My Downstairs System

Everything except the Paradigm Studio 20 V3 Reference 60 speakers is ~20 years old..

You can't buy stuff like this today.

All this equipment sounds STUNNING

The Master Bedroom System...

(I like to listen when I wake up on weekends)

Technics SL-7 Linear Tracking Turntable with Grado Gold P4T P-Mount Cartridge

Marantz ST-17 reference tuner

Marantz DR-17 reference CD recorder

Marantz SA-14 reference CD / SACD player

Marantz PM-17 reference integrated amp

NHT 1.8 Speakers

Vintage AKAI Audio Gear

Another very cool find.

Kenwood P-9 Vertical Turntable. VERY COOL.

Linear tracking - Accurate to 0.5 degrees according to the specs.

locally in Vancouver

WHERE TO BUY BELTS, PARTS ETC. FOR YOUR VINTAGE TURNTABLE...

Innovative Audio

www.iavscanada.com

(located in Surrey B.C. near Vancouver)

Other spots on the net to get belts...

http://www.elexatelier.com/oracle.htm

http://www.turntablebasics.com/belts/oracle.html

http://www.lpgear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ORAB

http://www.lptunes.com/Oracle-Delphi-MK-II-turntable-belt-p/orab020.htm

OGOPOGO VIDEO...

(copyright by Paul DeMara)

Link to Ogopogo Video taken by yours truly (Paul DeMara)

Taken, July 1992 at my lake property on Okanagan Lake, near Kelowna B.C. and seen on Various National television shows

THIS LINK IS FOR THE LOW RES VERSION

Email me at pdemara@dccnet.com if you are

interested in looking at the DVD resolution version or if you are an agent for a TV Show etc.

Me on CBC NEWS circa 1989

Paul_CBC.wmv

List of best-selling albums worldwide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_worldwide

List of best-selling albums in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States

You can see a live picture of Vancouver weather here...

http://www.katkam.ca/

The Famous "Paul DeMara Stamp Of Approval" product rating system.

Bronze - Not something I would ever buy... Some folks might though.
Silver - I might buy one but it has to be really inexpensive.
Gold - Yup I've got to have it and am happy to pay a fair price for it.
Platinum - I NEED it bad and am willing to pay extra for it.

VERY INTERESTING DATA ON THE STOCK MARKET FROM 1929 to TODAY.

Dow Jones graphs are interesting but this list of actual closing values for the Dow puts things into perspective.

An interesting MUST READ to get a sense of what's going on out there if you are watching what going on in the market right now...

http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi-bin/D.PL?d=ww2010.i.djia

The bad news is I think we are in for a VERY ROUGH RIDE in 2009

Track US JOB LOSS / FORECLOSURES ETC.

Very interesting site to see where things are happening in the US.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/map.economy/index.html

My house on the new Google street view

http://maps.google.ca/intl/en_ca/help/maps/streetview/

We are lucky that Vancouver was one of the first cities to be done.

Video of yours truly. July 20, 2007

Recent BC Government OCIO day presentation by yours truly

A BIT OF FAMILY HISTORY...

Interesting DeMara / Leckie Family History ...

DeMara Insurance Brokers - Kelowna BC

Founded by my Great Grandfather in 1923

Herbert Albert DeMara

A bit of history from Kelowna - My Dad

My Grandfathers Home on Abbott Street - 3rd house on list

Leckie Road Kelowna - Named after my great grandfather David Leckie - his daughter Marjorie married my grandfather Charles DeMara

David Leckie - great grandfather sold his business to the former priemier of BC WAC Bennet

Kelowna Museum

PHOTOS ETC

Kelowna Fire Pictures taken by yours truly Aug 2003

NEW Delta Bog Fire Sept 11 2005

Rogers Boat Cruise Sept 16 2005

Noel and Ken's Oct 15 2005

My Rogers 20th Anniversary Party Oct 26 2005

Grahame and Lisa's Wedding Pictures Aug 2003

Link to Ogopogo Video taken by your truly in July 0f 1992 and seen on National television

Mazda 6 technical information

Link to Picture from 2005 Grey Cup In Vancouver

Link to Pictures of Vancouver Auto Show 2006

Easter 2006

July 1st 2006 High Voltage Displays

Link to Zip file of High Voltage Display Pictures

Jeff and Joanne's July 1st 2006

Party Aug 5 2006

Hawaii Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

Andrew Koran CUBA Wedding May2007

Rogers 2008 XMas Party

Where to get cheap gas

test.zip

Speed Of Light Info

Is Faster Than Light Travel or Communication Possible?

Faster than light travel

PC Memory Speed vs. bus speed

WEB CAMS

Waikiki beach live Web Cam

BC Highways Web Cams

Vancouver Traffic Web Cams

Location Free Firmware Upgrade

MS XP DOS Command List

The Source Toslink Cables

Mobile Speed test etc

Internet Achieve

very COOL

Windows Vista Preview

Great Place to Compare Real World Digital Camera Pictures

Sony Canada Press Releases

Awesome Place to buy Plasma and LCD TV in Canada

My Personal Technology Blog - non work related

HSPA info

Ken Rockwell Website on Photography

Weight Loss Pill from Save on Foods

Tech Stocks Summary Index

Pictures From Space

Paul McDermott's photos

Paul McDermotts photos 2

Sigma Camera Lenses

Canon EF Lenses US

Canon Lenses Summary Canada

Understanding the Canon Lens Series

Canadian Prices For Canon Lenses

Canadian Prices for Tamron Lenses

Canadian Prices for Sigma Lenses

Canon Technologies

Tamron 18 - 200 MM Lens

Nikon 28 - 200 VR review

Tamron 18 - 200 MM Lens review

Henry's In Toronto

MCBain Camera in West Ed Mall

Camera Canada

Beach Camera Canon Lenses

List of Canon Lenses with Photos

Adapter to Use Nikon Lens on Your Cannon Camera

Info on Canon Flash Technology

Canon 430ES flash Review

Tokina Lenses

Tamron Lenses

Sigma Lens Listings with US Prices

Various Tests of Canon Lenses

Canon Lens Reviews from Digital Picture

Ratings for Various Canon Lenses

Vancouver Camera Shops etc.

Canon 30D Main WEB Site

Press Release on the 30D

Digital Workflow Ideas

Bob Atkins Photography

Canon Info Brochures Manuals

Compare 20D 30D 5D and D200

Compare the Canon 30D to Nikon D200

Canon 30D wins CNET Editors Choice Award

Canon 30D Review at DC Resource

Canon 30D review on Photo.net

Canon 30D review on Lets Go Digital

Canon 30D review at Steve's Digcams

Canon 30D review from DPreview

Nikon D200 Review at CNET

Nikon D200 Review at DC Resources

Nikon D200 review on Photo.net

Nikon D200 Review by Thom Hogan

Nikon D200 Review by Bjorn Rorslett

Nikon D200 Revew by Lets Go Digital

Nikon D200 Review at Steve's Digicams

Nikon D200 Review at DPreview

Eagle Cam on Vancouver Island

WIRELESS FILE ARCHIEVES ETC...

LINK TO WIRELESS AREA OF THIS WEB SITE

REQUIRES USER ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD

Wake On Lan SW and over the internet

CDMA Worldwide Subcribers

The Unwired

Windows Media Player Plug Ins

Widows Media Center 2005 review

MY FTP SITE

ftp://ftp.pdemara.com/

Last IP for Pdemara.com 24.207.48.132

This will make you go HUH...

More Illusions

Blue Angel Software

Freeware Pocket PC Software

HTC Blue Angel Software from XDA developers

Cool Free Stuff Photo Links

GNU Image Manipulation Program

Adobe Converter to DNG

Raw Viewer for Windows

Picasa Picture Organizer

Irfanview Picture Browser

Take Great Pictures .com

Canon Tips and Tricks

How to Use Digital Photo Professional 2

Today's AM Stereo

However, Motorola didn't just stay put because their system had "won" and was the standard. They listened to the complaints and worked to reduce or eliminate most of the past problems with the C-Quam system. By the early 1990s, they introduced new circuit designs which offered better audio fidelity and featured methods which greatly reduced the occurence of "platform motion".

Unfortunately, since then, people haven't paid much attention to AM Stereo. In fact, many people think it doesn't even exist anymore. But it does exist, and it is used by hundreds of stations all around the world. And thousands of AM Stereo radios continue to be manufactured and sold every year. AM Stereo even remains competitive against experimental digital AM broadcasting systems, such as iBiquity's "HD Radio", which are plagued with problems and will actually reduce the sound quality that AM radio has to offer.

AM Stereo History

Am Stereo Webpage with various AM Stereo Radios

The AM Stereo Tech Zone

AM Stereo Capable Radios

AM Stereo Receivers

Portable AM Stereo Radios

AM Streo Mod using SRF-42 Walkman

AM Stereo Stuff You Can Buy e.g.. an AM Stereo Decoder for your receiver

AM Stereo Projects

Audio Cubes Place to Buy AM Stereo Radio's

Sony SRF-A300 FM, AM Stereo Radio

Sony SRF-A300 FM, AM Radio

Sony SRF-AX51V FM, AM Stereo Pocket Radio

Sony SRF-AX51V FM, AM Pocket Radio

Sony SRF-AX15 FM, AM Stereo Pocket Radio

Sony SRF-AX15 FM, AM Pocket Radio

Sony History of Technology VERY COOL

Cool Sony Stuff through the Years...

Pioneer Elite Stereo Equipment... NICE !!!!

http://elitestereo.netfirms.com/

Product Design PS-F9

Cool Sony Verticle Turntable PS-F9

Pioneer FT-F950 Shown above

Vintage Pioneer Cassette Decks

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com

Sonic Perfection Web Site place to get your SACD player upgraded

Cool Used Vintage Equipment from Overseas

SONY AND OTHERS BETA VCR SITE

AWESOME INFO

MR BETAMAX

YOU CAN EVEN BUY OLD BETA VCR's HERE. NICE !!!!

http://www.mrbetamax.com/index.html

Sony PCM Encoders

PCM-F1: The original. Portable, with mic inputs. Expensive ($2000 or so?).
PCM-701: Essentially a line-input, rack mount F1. Cost about the same.
PCM-501ES: Freestanding stereo-component style box. List about $800.
PCM-601ESD: The current design. Has PCM-1630 digital I/O. List about $1300

Sony PCM-F1 cool man portable PCM unit

Story on the Sony PCM-F1

Sony PCM-F1, Sony SL-2000, 2 x Sony AC-F1E, 1 x VMC-330

Nakaamichi Model List

Note DM 100 D/A Converter

Sony Ellcaset Technology

Sony Elcsaet EL-7

Story On Sony Elcaset Technology

ELCASET.ca Web Site

User Manual Guides Web Site

Akai Cassette Decks

walkman museum title

Sony Walkman Museum Very Cool

WALKMAN CENTRAL SITE

World's first Wi-Fi SD card announced

Places to buy used stuff in Vancouver

www.buysell.com

http://vancouver.kijiji.ca/

http://www.usedvancouver.com/

http://vancouver.craigslist.org/

Google Language translator

Language Translator

PC Card to PC Express adapter (HANDY IF YOU HAVE A NEW LAPTOP

VINTAGE RECORD INFO

Vintage Record Data Base

All Music Web Site

Upcoming Canada Spectrum Auction Links...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=af9i_3be1_Lo&refer=canada

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-bafd0083-449e-4224&Portal=35a9256c-ab94-47e6-8f20-9717c5403f85&sub=322725

http://www.faircompetition.ca/en/index.asp

http://www.faircompetition.ca/en/latestnews.asp

Rogers INTRANET ONLY http://www.theburbs.com/RogersNews/Display.aspx?id=8949

Who needs an IPHONE when you can get one of these...

http://www.minidiscaccess.com/

Google Web Site Register Site

Amazing cell video

XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Harford, CT, created this molecular animation using NewTek LightWave and SOFTIMAGE XSI

Rogers has the highest speed internet service

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/marketplace/speed_bump.wmv

Remote control Software FREE. NICE !!!!

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

LogMeIn Hamachi

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en

Cross Loop

https://www.crossloop.com/landing.htm

PowerQuest Drive Image

OEM Version 17

http://www.zoomerart.net/index.php?target=desc&progid=553

http://www.computervideo.net/sep03-4.html

http://www.amazon.ca/Symantec-dm70enk1-Powerquest-Drive-Image/dp/B00009V7I4

CANUK AUDIO MARK - THE PLACE FOR CANADIANS TO SELL THEIR GEAR

Free Soft Keyboard for HPC Touch and other WM devices

SPB Full Screen Keyboard

Top 25 innovative tech products of 2007

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/3c3a017f0a010408003580abc00b2592/pg0.htm

Smartest dumbest tech moves of 2007

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/3bf4abdd0a010408003580abc9c8baeb/pg0.htm

Rapid Run AV Cable Extender

Impact Acoustics

HTTP FILE FREE FILE SEVER PROGRAM .. NICE

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=intro

HSPA PCMCIA Supported Routers

http://www.topglobalusa.com/product2_02.asp?newsid=20060413143304175&classid=102103102

U3 software on a USB Stick

http://www.u3.com/

Portable APPS

http://portableapps.com/

Remote Web Proxy Site

www.proxy.org

Google Translation Site (can be used as a proxy)

??http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.site.com

SACD Technology Background

How SACD works vs CD

SACD Format Variations

SACD Multichannel Info

GPS Tracking

http://www.gpsed.com/

Cashing in on OLD GADGETS..

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/01/17/gadget.buybacks.ap/index.html

HDMI SWITCHERS ROUNDUP FROM CNET

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-7871_7-6602831.html?tag=nl.e702

Sony OLED TV

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/article/54dd0a150a010408015d84e010b15dcb/pg1.htm

Jan 2007 Mac World Highlights

http://blogs.pcworld.ca/2008/01/16/macworld-expo-2008-steve-jobs-keynote/

• The Year Ahead in HDTV: faster, thinner, cheaper

An exclusive report from the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by PCWorld.ca correspondent, Ted Kritsonis

2007 Coolest Gadgets

The end of the year provides us with the perfect excuse to look back at some of the coolest gadgets of 2007. As you might expect, the continuing convergence of all sorts of products into smaller and more functional devices was a big theme in 2007. Some of the gadgets also reminded us of the importance of services that often go hand-in-hand with hardware and are a big but often forgotten part of the "cool factor" we attach to such products. Read more.

The Year in Tech: Top 2007 News and Trends

Legal tussles, format wars, and (of course) the iPhone dominated technology news in 2007. The iPhone may have made the biggest tech splash in 2007, but a lot of other cannonballs hit the water as well: The year saw the hatching of Google's Android, a number of exploding laptops, and even a new tech-related ailment called "Acute Wiiitis."Here are the biggest tech headlines of the year--including some we'd like to forget.

Tiny URL

GPS Tracking for Cell Phones

http://www.gpsed.com/

SACD and DVD Audio Music

http://store.acousticsounds.com/store.cfm

Sony Walkmans...

http://www.geocities.jp/sony_transistor_radio/walkman/_index.html

Cisco HWIC CARD

Video of HSPA card

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7272/index.html

FAQ On this card

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps5949/prodqas0900aecd80729486.pdf

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

SACD

SACD Reference Site

http://www.sa-cd.net/

Great Place To buy SACD's

http://www.thestore24.com/default.aspx?si=fetch

How to Copy SACD's (kind of)

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/107357

SACD FAQ on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD

Windows Home Server

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/features.mspx

MDF - Mobile Device Format

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-98ef1d60-2477-49fd&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=322725

VTAP Video player for WM and IPHONE.

http://www.vtap.com/

vtap™ is the video discovery network that helps you find web videos you want from anywhere on the web. Whether your preference is sports, music, news or your best friend's video on YouTube, find it, share it and save it fast with vtap. And, vtap mobile keeps you covered for those impromptu on-the-go video moments.

YOU TUBE POCKET

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showpost.php?p=1319431&postcount=1

Trends Class T AMP

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/trends/ta10.html

KNOLL SYSTEMS - VERY COOL HOME THEATRE EQUIPMENT

http://www.knollsystems.com/index.html

http://www.knollsystems.com/tech-docs/us-ur%20component.pdf

NAD M3, front

NAD Master Series M55 Digital Dics Player and M3 Dual Mono Integrated Amp

http://www.audio-ideas.com/reviews/integrateds/nad-masters-m55-dvd-player-m3-amplifier.html

http://www.imgburn.com/

Cool new stuff from CES

http://www.itworldcanada.com/VideoLibrary/Video/2/48/pg1.htm

GT Max external ant adapters etc.

http://eshop.option.com/catalogue.asp

http://eshop.option.com/product.asp?product=1004176

High Fidelity Sound Review NICE...

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/

New Browsers for you Pocket PC and Smartphone NICE...

http://www.zumobi.com/

http://www.skyfire.com/

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/

http://www.bitstream.com/wireless/products/pocketpc/index.html

http://labs.live.com/Deepfish/

RSS Readers

http://mippin.com/app/faces/jsp/home.xhtml

AVReview in England

http://www.avreview.co.uk/

BLU-RAY vs HD DVD

A great article about this new Hi-Def format. My only comment is nice but not really needed unless you go really big.

As per the articles comments 37 inch (maybe 42 inch) sets and smaller do not benefit much from the extra resolution.

On the bigger than 42 inch sets it is noticeable but only if you are really close. The further away you are from the set the less you will notice the extra resolution.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9864122-1.html

Video Steaming Solutions

http://reviews.cnet.com/4370-9991_7-197-106.html?tag=nl.e702

Wireless Technology Solutions for Wireless ATM's backup, etc.

(Very Cool stuff)

http://www.globalnetcommerceinc.com/pages/home.htm

Palm ranks last in satisfaction survey, no one surprised (Interesting because I like My Palm devices)

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/13/palm-ranks-last-in-satisfaction-survey-no-one-surprised/

http://reviews.cnet.com/gsma-world-congress/?tag=nl.e729

http://www.gsmworld.com/index.shtml

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Seminars

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/seminars.htm

HD-DVD VS Blu-Ray

Well basically they both produce an awesome picture. NICE !!!!

No question about the fact that. Really is that Blu-Ray has a bit more storage space and it looks like a bit bigger following.

So who will win? It really looks like the momentum is swinging towards Blu-Ray

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9869591-7.html?tag=nl.e729

Stay Tuned. I give this one about 6 months before it's 100% obvious where things are going.

Playstation 3 Info on different Models

http://reviews.cnet.com/consoles/sony-playstation-3-40gb/4505-10109_7-32733577.html?tag=nl.e729

Model	PS3 20GB*	PS3 40GB	PS3 60GB^	PS3 80GB
MSRP	n/a	$400	$500	$500
Hard disk size	20GB	40GB	60GB	80GB
Network compatibility	Ethernet only	Ethernet and Wi-Fi	Ethernet and Wi-Fi	Ethernet and Wi-Fi
Plays PS2 games?	Yes [hardware support for most PS2 games]	No	Yes [hardware support for most PS2 games]	Yes [software support for many PS2 games]
Flash memory compatibility	None	None	CompactFlash, SD Memory Card and Memory Stick Duo card slots	CompactFlash, SD Memory Card and Memory Stick Duo card slots
USB ports	4	2	4	4
Unique bundled items	-	Currently ships with Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray movie	-	Currently ships with Motorstorm game

what Audio Formats can a PS3 Play?

http://www.ps3sacd.com/faq.html#_Toc177216814

DSD Direct Player

http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/Solution/DSDdirect/

http://www.ps3sacd.com/

DVD Audio Authoring SW

http://www.cirlinca.com/

Some info on How to Copy SACD to DVD audio

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/466834

SACD.net Website. INFO ON SACD TITLES

http://www.sa-cd.net/

Sonic Studio SACD Creator

http://www.sonicstudio.com/products/dsd/sacdc.html

http://store.sonicstudio.com/nexstageline.html

PC SACD SOLUTION

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=17238008

Car SACD Players

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=10972765

Modify your SACD Player for better sound

http://www.warrengregoire.com/hifi-stereo-sony-sacd-mod.htm

Great Budget Headphones.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-7877_7-6606890.html?tag=feat.1&tag=nl.e428

TECHNOLOGY FROM THE PAST 1988 to 2008

http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6328095&icid=tg6328095&GT1=10938

Download Jazz Records

http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/

NEW BB 8XXX SERIES AKA Blackberry Bold,,,

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/vodafones-2008-roadmap-gets-outed-new-blackberry-included/

How to take care of your plasma TV and ensure no burn in.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6449_7-6844370-1.html?tag=nl.e729

How to Slipstream server 2003

http://www.petri.co.il/windows_2003_sp1_slipstreaming.htm

Macbook running server 2003

http://blog.netnerds.net/2006/08/macbook-run-windows-2003-server-sp1-on-your-macbook/

Great Articles On Apples Success in the Marketplace

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/index.html

The trouble with Steve Jobs

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm

Steve Jobs Financial History

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/stevejobs/index.html

Top 20 Most Admired Companies

Apple is #1

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0802/gallery.mostadmired_top20.fortune/index.html

10 Most Admired for innovation

Apple is #1

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.innovation.fortune/index.html

Mac OS X 10.5: iChat system requirements

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306687

5.1 Music Via AAC / AC3 / DTS

how to play 5.1 AAC files over SDPIF

http://grigio.org/howto_play_aac_5_1_over_spdif

O/S Wars.. MAC vs XP vs Vista Vs Ubuntu

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2273486,00.asp

LCD vs Plasma thoughts (The Future is probably OLED)

http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/plasma-vs-lcd-TV.html

http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/buyingguides/Plasma-Vs-Lcd-Televisions/32.html

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/381/v/4/sp/

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/1500

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/1405

Pure Mac - All the Software You Really Need

http://www.pure-mac.com/

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

Samsung Blackjack II

http://www.pdastreet.com/articles/2008/2/2008-2-25-Review-Blackjack-II.html

http://www.psionplace.com/articles/2007/2/2007-2-13-Review-Samsung-BlackJack.html

IS Windows Mobile Still relavent

http://justanothermobilemonday.com/Wordpress/2008/03/08/is-windows-mobile-still-relevant/

Core Media Player

http://www.coreplayer.com/

HDMI info

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11276_7-6845988-2.html?tag=nav

Interesting Comparison between HDMI and Component Video

Component video is found on nearly all electronics that output high-def video, and its image quality is slightly lower than HDMI, but it's really difficult for most people to tell the difference

GSM Unlock Service

http://www.unlockcellphone.com/webapp/keyword_pages/Samsung-BLACKJACK-II-unlock-code.html

http://www.unlockitnow.com/Samsung/Blackjack%202.php

http://www.thecellfreak.com/how-do-i-unlock-my-phone-for-free/

New Free Old TV Shows Web Site

www.hulu.com

Marketing 101 - The great cable rip off.

As many of you know, being technical has advantages.

I get to read marking info and poke fun at the people trying to get you to spend money on stuff that doesn't matter.

Case in point. Cables, specifically HDMI cables.

The signal is digital

As long as it arrives intact NO price you pay will make any difference on the picture quality.

It saddens me when I see people being LIED to in consumer electronic stores about needing expensive cables.

Simply put - Don't waist your money on expensive cables.

Buy some really nice speakers instead, that YOU like the sound of.

A great article backing up my thoughts..

http://reviews.cnet.com/hdmi-guide/?tag=nl.e702

Excerpt from article...

Expensive cables aren't worth it
If you walk into your typical electronics store to buy an HDMI cable, you're likely to see prices upward of $50 with promises of better performance and faster speeds. Do you really need to spend that much money on a single HDMI cable?

Absolutely not--those cables are a rip-off. You should never pay more than $10 for a standard six-foot HDMI cable. And despite what salesmen and manufacturers might tell you, there's no meaningful difference between the $10 cable and the $50 cable. Unless you see something obvious, such as dropouts or a flashing screen, the digital information transmitted by both cables is exactly the same--no cable can make the picture any better or any worse. We've used cables from many different companies in the past--such as Belkin, Accell, Monoprice, Monster, and SimplayHD--and have not run into any consistent issues with any brand of cable. With working cables and solid connections, we've seen no dropouts and "sparklies"--just consistent, dependable, high-quality audio and video. It's that simple.

Different Models of PS3

PS3 achieved firmware...

http://www.ps3-hacks.com/category/3

Feature:	20 GB (NTSC)^[44]	40 GB (PAL, NTSC)^[45]	60 GB (NTSC)^[44]	60 GB (PAL)^[44]	80 GB (NTSC)^[44]
Colors	Piano Black	Piano Black, Ceramic White (U.S. and Japan only),^[46] Satin Silver (Japan only)^[47]	Piano Black	Piano Black	Piano Black
USB 2.0 ports	4	2	4	4	4
802.11 b/g Wi-Fi	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Flash card readers	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chrome trim	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SACD support^[48]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
PS2 compatibility	Yes — Hardware (Emotion Engine)	No	Yes — Hardware (Emotion Engine)	Yes — Software emulation	Yes — Software emulation
First availability	November 2006	October 2007	November 2006	March 2007	August 2007
In production	No^[49]	Yes	No	No	Yes

Video Cards and Component Video Adapters

Part 1- types of interfaces...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card

Component Video Solutions...

http://www.shopati.ca/searchresults.asp?search_id=10

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=1412

http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&id=ID3929101&partno=01778&search=DVI_ADAPTER&rsite=70927&rcode=

http://www.svideo.com/hdtvaiwr8500.html

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9600/radeon9600pro/specs.html

http://ati.amd.com/products/hdtvadapter/faq.html#1

http://ati.amd.com/products/hdtvadapter/index.html

http://shop.ati.com/country.asp

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1687

http://sewelldirect.com/DVI-to-Component-Adapter-Cable-15ft.asp

ATI HDTV Component Video Adapter Installation and Setup User’s Guide

DVI / HDMI vs Component Video - Which is Better

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/122868.html

ATI Cards with Component Output Support.

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition

ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro

http://www.nvidia.com/object/analog_component_out.html

Blackberry BES Security Issues

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-98ea2d4f-5f81-4e07&sub=322725

Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction Participants...

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/en/sf08900e.html

http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=377626

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2008/03/17/rogers-and-telus-expected-to-remain-range-bound.aspx

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-d268dc87-a04e-4255-8826-8b12327d6e7a&Portal=479bef03-5b6d-4a21-9c1a-9a0c1885d3a4&ParaStart=15&ParaEnd=30&direction=prev&Previous=Previous

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/en/home?OpenDocument

Links to ATT Phone Support

http://www.wireless.att.com/support/content.do?page=phone-device-support

http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/phones-devices/specialty-vertical-devices.jsp;dsessionid=ULEBHZZEJHWKFB4R0F4CFEY

http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/en_US/pdf/SpecialtyVerticalDevices.pdf

How to Make a Copy of the Mac OS X install Disk

http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/make_a_dvd_copy_of_mac_os_x_tiger

Laptops with built in Modems

The next Trend. That's my opinion....

http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/wwan/index.html

Verizon Explains New Open Device Policy

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2277399,00.asp

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/03/25/verizon.access.ap/index.html

Sound and Vision Online...

http://www.soundandvisiononline.com/

http://www.ultimateavmag.com/

http://www.ultimateavmag.com/avreceivers/

An Interesting Articele on how to setup your 5.1 System.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_9_3/feature-article-multiple-crossovers-9-2002.html

Home Theatre Wizard

http://www.axiomaudio.com/indexwizard.html?utm_source=1071&utm_medium=b&utm_campaign=160x600b#

MAC SHORTCUTS

Mac OS-X Keyboard Shortcuts...

http://www.usingmac.com/2007/11/21/mac-os-x-leopard-200-productivity-booster-hotkeys

So you think spending 10K for a DVD player will make a difference. Maybe NOT!!

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi

Testing Methodology...

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6462_7-5125589-1.html?tag=txt

Blackberry Pearl Shortcuts

http://mobilewirelessnews.com/2006/12/08/how-to-blackberry-pearl-8100-keyboard-shortcuts/

Yamaha RX-Z1 Receiver

http://www.ultimateavmag.com/avreceivers/103/

Yamaha RX-Z9

http://www.ultimateavmag.com/avreceivers/1004yamaha/

Yamaha DVD-CX1

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_10_1/yamaha-cx1-dvd-player-3-2003.html

Worldwide TV Standards

http://www.jvbdigital.nl/jvb.asp?cur=2&level=modifications&page=title&title=754&map=TV

Worldwide DVD Regions

http://www.jvbdigital.nl/jvb.asp?cur=2&level=modifications&page=title&title=754&map=Region

Worldwide Blu-ray Regions

http://www.jvbdigital.nl/jvb.asp?cur=2&level=modifications&page=title&title=754&map=Region

Great Place to buy 5.1 Music

http://store.acousticsounds.com/

http://store.acousticsounds.com/category.cfm?sct=dvd&id=140

Place to download Software. Music and Programs...

http://thepiratebay.org/

DTV transition from analog to digital TV

http://reviews.cnet.com/dtv-transition/?tag=lnav

Poker strategy- Wikipedia

Remote Control PC Software...

www.gotomypc.com

www.webex.com (PC NOW)

www.logmein.com

Routers that support USB or PC express cards...

ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DIR-451.pdf

http://www.dlink.ca/press/pr/?prid=285

http://www.dlink.com/press/pr/?prid=313

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/novatel-ovation-hsupa-usb-modem/2216011102

Video on Ovation MC950D Modem...

http://blip.tv/file/427685?utm_source=aolvideo&utm_medium=aolvideo

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/novatel-ovation-hsupa-usb-modem/2216011102

ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DIR-451.pdf

Windows Mobile 6.1 Video Demos of new features

http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=189&p=242

Croma Up sampling Error Info for DVD player

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_8_2/dvd-benchmark-special-report-chroma-bug-4-2001.html

Players that do and do not have the bug..

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_8_2/dvd-benchmark-special-report-chroma-bug-4-2001-list.html

DVD Audio Info and standards including an explanation of Meridian Lossless coding.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_8_4/dvd-benchmark-part-6-dvd-audio-11-2001.html

PTCRB DATABASE for cell phone

PCS Type Certification Review Board

www.ptcrb.com

Global Net Commerce Inc

http://www.globalnetcommerceinc.com/pages/home.html

Top 25 Technologies you can't live without.

http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=6162001

New Sierra Wireless Aquisition...

http://www.cradlepoint.com/

HDMI vs Component Video

Digital may not always be the best solution

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all&manufacturer=25

From this article

When testing the S2500, I noticed a pretty significant difference between the HDMI output and the component outputs. Obviously one of the main draws to this player would be the HDMI output which offers scaled resolutions of 720p and 1080i, as well as a direct digital video path. This is definitely the preferred delivery system to a digital display as it alleviates the need for transitions from digital to analog and back, along with the filtering involved in the process.

The only downside here is that the component outputs are actually better, since they don’t have the same issues that this player’s HDMI output is exhibiting. The component outputs also have an array of video adjustments that are not available with the HDMI output.

On the core side, the component outputs are just about flawless. The frequency response is rock solid, and I didn’t notice any artificial ringing in my subjective analysis. The Ziva 5 chip did fine in our chroma tests, especially since the Faroudja chip masks any issues associated with it. Pixel cropping was not an issue via component or HDMI.

ASUS Eee PC at the Source in Canada

http://www.thesource.ca/estore/category.aspx?ref=1207&language=en-CA&catalog=Online&category=Mobile_Internet&pagenum=1&sort=1

18 things Windows should add to their Software (Mac has most of them)

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/c9c9db2d0a01040801a08be5fa76d897/pg0.htm

Desktop themes for XP etc VERY COOL

http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm

Telus Considers Changing to GSM

http://www.thestar.com/article/293353

18 things Microsoft should add to windows

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/c9c9db2d0a01040801a08be5fa76d897/pg0.htm

Use Remote Control to remote control your office PC

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/05/23/brannock.solar.car.wlky

Expand a drive

http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive

Ebay Flat Rate from Canada Post

http://pages.ebay.ca/flatratebox/index.html

HTC Touch Diamond Keyboard

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=390688

PS3 INFO AND LINKS

Welll yes you can play DSD 5.1 on the PS3 over toslink if you have version 2.0 Firmware.

Now the hard part getting the unit back to version 2.0 Firmware.

Playstation 3 secrets

http://www.edepot.com/playstation3.html

PS3 ver 2.0 firmware may break wi-fi

http://psubuntu.com/2007/11/10/ps3-firmware-20-breaks-wifi/

SONY E-SUPPORT

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/index.pl

DAT INFO

GREAT WEB SITE FOR DAT INFO

http://www.datrecorders.co.uk/index.php

AudioIdiots Web Site. Too Funny...

http://audioidiots.com/merk.apparaat.php?apparaatID=2349

LASER DISK ARCHIVE

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/sony/sony_laserdisc_archive.htm

JULY 7, 2008

How to Capture Bit accurate PCM streams on Various Sound Cards.

http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-56795.html

So the new idea of the day....

My next project / idea, capture DTS encoded streams at 44.1 and 48 kHz to a DAT deck.

This technically should allow me to make up DTS 5.1 music mix DAT tape recording.

If it works this is VERY cool thing to do with an old DAT deck.

STAY TUNED.

THIS COULD BE VERY COOL AND MAKE THAT OLD DAT DECK VERY USEFUL.

cheers,

UPDATE JULY 9 2008.

IT WORKS 100% YEE HA...

YOU CAN NOW RECORD 5.1 DTS MUSIC ON A DAT DECK...

I did my first test today using a DTS CD being played back through an optical cable plugged into my Sony Portable DAT DECK.

I recorded the DTS bit stream onto my Sony DCT-D8 portable DAT Deck.

When I played the recording back through the optical output it provided the DTS signal to my Receivers DTS DECODER.

This is a really amazing breakthrough in home recording as you now can use a DAT deck to record 5.1 music.

VERY COOL...

P.S. Turns out others have already tried this, but info is hard to find on the net.

The next test will be to use the Creative DTS-610 to real time encode DTS 5.1 onto the DAT DECK.

keeping my fingers crossed this will also work.

Has some really useful applications.

Some application examples..

1. recording 5.1 SACD / DVD-AUDIO Disks to DAT tape

2. Recording 5.1 audio mixes from Music Videos to DAT

3. Recording 5.1 DTS sound on a DAT deck for various concerts etc.

I am sure there are lots more uses as well

Cheers and stay tuned for more.

I will post videos and pictures as soon as I can.

Creative DTS-610

Creative Store where you can BUY a DTS-610

http://us.store.creative.com/Home-Theater-Connect-DTS610/M/B002651ZEM.htm

Real time 5.1 DTS encoder from Sound Blaster

VERY COOL

I call it the little magic box. :-)

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=16&product=14191

DTS USES 20 Bit encoding for potentially better sound the 16 bit CD's

http://www.telarc.com/dts/default.asp

http://www.telarc.com/dts/title.asp?sku=CD%2D84402%2DDTS&mscssid=9CTVMBLNHJN59L4C6205VT509MSSDF60

DVD-Audio from Telarc's point of view

http://www.telarc.com/dvd/default.asp?mscssid=9S3KB0VKT66E8HV1SXE161AU5LUKCSF3

YES IT CAN BE DONE

5.1 SACD to DTS CD

I use the above box to convert 5.1 SACD's to 5.1 DTS CD's and DTS 5.1 DAT TAPES

The Creative DTS-610 can do 2.0 2.2 (Quad) or 5.1 to DTS with the Creative LABS DTS-610

VERY SIMPLE TO DO

1. Hook up your 5.1 analogue source deck e.g. SACD player or DVD-Audio Player to the analogue 5.1 input of the Creative DTS-610

2. Hook the digital output of the DTS-610 to the digital input of either a DAT DECK or CD RECORDER (Can use Toslink or Coax digital connector depending on input of equipment)

Hit play on the SACD player and record on the DAT DECK or CD RECORDER and you are good to go.

You will notice that the display shows a constant -12 dbm. This is normal as you will not see any variance on the display as the signal is a continuous DTS bit stream which the recording meter can't read.

Only negative is that the CD Recorder and DAT Deck have to have chapters marked manually. Easy to do on a DAT deck. Press the track mark button. For CD recording it's more about using the pause button at the end of each song.

Other thing to note is that some CD recorders will modify the bit stream. If your CD Recorder unit has a digital volume control like my Yamaha CDR-651 then this type of DTS recording will NOT work. My JVC XL-R5000 works 100% but I had to make sure I turned off the sampling rate converter to get the DTS bit stream to record on it.

Head over to Quadraphonic Forum - for additional info.

http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/

http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6627

For DTS 5.1 Playback.

DAT playback - hook up your Dat deck to your DTS capable receive's digital input and set the receiver to decode DTS. (some are not automatic at doing this.)

DTS CD playback. - Put the newly made DTS CD in a CD or DVD player with digital outputs and hook the output into the digital input of your receiver. Select that input and hit play on the CD or DVD player.

My setup for making DTS 5.1 CD's and DAT Tapes as well as copies from CD-4 Quad Albums. (discrete 4 channel sound)

I use a Grado Silver cartridge which has a frequency response of 10 to 60,000 hz for the CD-4 Records.

(yes that's an old JVC Quad receiver that I use to decode CD-4 quad disks to make DTS 2.2 CD's)

Equipment Used to make DTS 5.1 CD's and DAT Tapes

A - Sony SCD-XE670 SACD player

B - JVC XL-R5000 CD Recorder (turn off sample rate converter)

C - Sony DTC 60ES DAT Deck (Using this to copy SACD's in 5.1 DTS)

D - Sony DTC 60ES DAT Deck (back up DAT Deck)

E - Creative DTS-610 bottom left.

Connecting Your PC to Your Home Theater Without DTS-610

Without DTS-610 connecting your PC to your home theater involves long, messy cables, cable extenders and the chore of figuring out how to connect the multitude of cables to the back of your receiver.

Conventional PC Audio to Home Theater Connection (without DTS-610)

Connecting Your PC to Your Home Theater With DTS-610

With DTS-610 connecting your PC to your home theater is easy, just connect your PC to DTS-610 with a standard PC speaker cable and plug the optical cable into your home theater receiver. All the cables and everything you need is included in the box.

Connecting Your PC to Your Home Theater With DTS-610

Watching Movies with External Video Devices

Converts OPTICAL SPDIF Output to COAX SPDIF. Connects Non-COAX equipment with OPTICAL equipment and vice versa which is extremely helpful when using legacy devices with only Coaxial connectors.

Re: SACD to Creative Labs DTS-610 out = DTS disc?

My SACD to DTS explanation posted here...

http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6627

Yes you can convert SACD 5.1 to DTS 5.1 and record to the DTS stream to a DAT Deck or CD Recorder very easily.

I am using a Creative DTS-610 encoder with a Sony SACD player model SCD-XE670 as a source drive for 5.1 SACD Music. I have hooked up the 5.1 analogue outputs of the SACD player to the input of the Creative DTS-610.

The DTS-610 encodes the 5.1 analogue audio and puts out a 44.1 kHz DTS stream. This stream can then be recorded on to a Sony DAT (DTC-60ES) deck or my JVC XL-R5000 CD recorder. It’s fully compliant with either of these formats as the DTS stream looks like a standard PCM 44.1 Khz stereo stream. (It just looks like a strero stream but actually has the 5.1 DTS encoded info on it.)

This also works with my old 70's JVC receiver with a CD-4 Quad decoder which conveniently has pre outs on it. I use an Oracle Delphi Mark 1 turntable with a Grado Silver cartridge to feed the JVC receiver. The CD-4 decoder locks on no problem. (The Grado Silver Cartridge is rated to 60,000+ Hz so it easily sends thought the 30 kHz pilot tone for CD-4 Decoding. To make a quad DTS recording, I unhook the Center / Sub input on the DTS-610 and it then sets up as only 2.2 DTS recording. NICE!!! I can then record Quad CD-4 Records to a DTS CD or a DTS DAT tape. This works extremely well.

No issues with copying 5.1 music. Works great for 5.1 DVD-Audio Disks as well. I generally rip those directly via the DVD compatibility mode to 5.1 PCM seperate streams and then encode with the sure code DTS encoder to make DTS 5.1 CD’s. Once I have the DTS CD, I can also copy to DAT to make a 5.1 mix tape. Am listening to one right now.

Feel free to visit my site for additional details and pictures. Still got lots to post as I have just started doing this about a month and half ago. Sounds like others are on the same page based on what I have read on this thread. Am also interested in buying an additional DTS-610 unit if anyone knows where to get one.

best regards,
Paul DeMara
www.pdemara.com

Article on new chip that the Creative DTS-610 uses...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Nov_8/ai_n15783763

More info on Analogue Devices Chipset

http://www.analog.com/en/embedded-processing-dsp/sharc/adsp-21262/processors/product.html

Windows Media Player 7, 10, 11, Downloads

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

DAT TAPE TECHNOLOGY

INFO

Great Place to learn about DAT DECKS

http://www.datrecorders.co.uk/index.php

Iphone Links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4AHFRjVWM

Audio Idiots.com

http://audioidiots.com/index.php

Quad Receivers

Sansui

http://www.classicsansui.net/Quad%20Receivers.htm

http://www.vintage-audio.com.ua/index.php?lang=en&theme=cat&ctg_id=219&begin=11

Various Sony Equipment Sale Prices

http://audioidiots.com/merk.apparaten.php?merkID=1

Low Card Diets actually work better than low fat diets...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/16/dueling.diets.ap/index.html

Spectrum Auction Highlights...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/21/tech-spectrum.html

TOP 8 CD RECORDERS

http://hometheater.about.com/od/cdinforeviews/tp/aatpcdrecordera.htm

CD RECORDERS ON EBAY...

http://electronics.listings.ebay.ca/CD-Players-Recorders_CD-Recorders_W0QQfclZ3QQfromZR11QQsacatZ14976QQsocmdZListingItemList

DTC-57ES

Rotary head

DAT RECORDER INFO

http://www.datrecorders.co.uk/dtc750.php

http://farzeno.club.fr/sonydek.htm

http://farzeno.club.fr/edat.htm

DAT HOME DECKS

http://farzeno.club.fr/deck.htm

DAT PORTABLE DECKS

http://farzeno.club.fr/portable.htm

DAT CAR DECKS

http://farzeno.club.fr/autodat.htm

Sony TCD-D7 and TCD-D8 Resource guide

http://www.rockpark.com/d7/

DAT World

http://audiotools.com/dat.html

Commercial DAT info...

http://www.datmgm.com/

DAT Roadmap

http://www.datmgm.com/datroadmap.htm

VINYL IS COMING BACK YEE HA.

check out this great article from England about the re-birth of Analogue Records with the under 25 crowd.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/groovin-on-vinyl/

Yamaha Support Pages Worldwide

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/english/result.php?div_code=av&model=&cat_code=

Free Network Management Tools

10 Great Network Apps... FREE

http://www.itworldcanada.com/articles/10greatfree/10downloads.htm

IPHONE INFO...

5 Good reasons to buy an Iphone NOW!!!

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/65acd93ec0a8000601e8d41005a8f506/pg1.htm

AC3Filter for Direct Show to play AC3 and DTS files

DTS Software

http://ac3filter.net/

http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html

Get you Quad Records / 8 Tracks / Reel to Reel etc. Converted to DTS CD

AVConvert - Extreme Quality Audio and Video Conversions - don't be caught in the wrong format, AVConvert!

AVConvert - Extreme Quality™ Audio Conversions - Restorations, transfers to CD

AVConvert - The Re-Birth of QUAD! - Quad conversions and transfers to CD

FREE USER/SERVICE MANUALS...

http://safemanuals.com/

http://www.retrevo.com/

http://www.hifiengine.com/

http://safemanuals.com/

http://www.fixdevice.com/smanuals/file/855.html

Sony Canada Service Manuals

http://esi.sony.ca/esupport/esupport/CD%20Rom%20Service%20Manual/022000/thiscd/sm-e/pa/

NOT FREE MANUALS

www.nodevice.com

Place to buy Remote Control Replacements

http://remotes.com/

SONY E-SUPPORT

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/index.pl

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=SCDXE670

Sony Resources Guide for older vintage Sony Equipment.

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyresource/SonyResource-main.html#

Laser Pickup Cross Reference Guide for Sony CD DVD players

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyresource/resource-laserpicks.html

Sony Serial Number guide. We are the 7 series in Canada

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyresource/resource-snumbers.html

Sony Equipment Colors

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyresource/resource-colors.html

Sony History Site

VERY COOL...

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/index.html

http://www.audioscope.net/

Used Vintage Stereo Equipment

American Sound of Canada

http://www.americansound.com/specials/deals2.htm

Project Audio Turntables etc

http://www.project-audio.com/main.php?cat=default&lang=en

Vinyl Records are Selling Well year over year

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2008/db20080822_135963.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

AMAZING CASSETTE DECKS...

The Sony TC-KA7ES

http://www.thevintageknob.org/SONY/sonyes/TCKA7ES/TCKA7ES.html

You can still buy one for a about a Grand from Japan Direct. NICE !!!!

It's definitely on the must have list.

http://www.japan-direct.com/cartitem.asp?prodid=476

The Sony TC-K808ES Cassette Deck NICE !!!!

http://www.audio-extasa.eu/sony-tck808es-cassette-deck-champagne-p-768.html

Why CD's don't sound as good as Analogue Recordings.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm

Example of CD vs DVD audio specs.

	CD Audio	DVD Audio
Sampling Rate	44.1 kHz	192 kHz
Samples per second	44,100	192,000
Sampling Accuracy	16-bit	24-bit
Number of Possible Output Levels	65,536	16,777,216

SACD / DSD - DIRECT STREAM DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

The BETTER way to record in digital.

http://www.canadapromedia.com/Articles/sacd/sacd.htm

SACD Pulse Train

The resulting pulse trains "looks" remarkably like the audio waveform that it represents. Furthermore digital to analog conversion can be as simple as running the pulse train through an analog low pass filter!

Sony and Philips designed DSD to capture the complete information of today's best analog systems. The best 30ips half-inch analog recorders can capture frequencies past 50 kHz. DSD can represent this with a frequency response from DC to 100 kHz. To cover the dynamic range of a good analog mixing console, the residual noise power was held at -120 dB through the audio band. This combination of frequency response and dynamic range is unmatched by any other recording system, digital or analog

New Windows Mobile Browsers.. Bringing the web to portable devices...

SKYFIRE - looks like the best of the best right now.

http://www.skyfire.com/

Opera 9.5 - looks pretty darn good

http://www.opera.com/

http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/download/

DVD / SACD Audio output board project etc.

https://www.dvdupgrades.ch/product/Modification/SPDIF/Output/Six_channel_S_P_DIF_output_boardSix_c/24308.html

A good summary of SACD benefits from Marantz

http://www.marantz.com/new/index.cfm?fuseaction=Support.FAQ&cont=eu&bus=hf

Sound Blaster Drivers

http://hosted.filefront.com/BadBoyforum

DTS AC3 Forum

http://www.dtsac3.com/

The Needle Doctor

Grado Gold Cartridges Etc.

http://www.needledoctor.com/Grado-Gold-Prestige-Series-Phono-Cartridge

NICE cartridge upgrade. from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs (A Deal at 3500 US)

http://www.mofi.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=9

MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LABS

AWESOME 180 gram LP's (I love these records for their quality sound)

Highly recommended for an amazing listening experience

http://www.mofi.com/productcart/pc/viewcategories.asp

http://www.vinylnirvana.com/ar_for_sale.shtml

http://www.audio-extasa.eu/

wired4sound

http://www.wired4sound.net.au/index.htm

Cannuck Audio Mart

Selected Categories.

Vinyl

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/classifieds/music_vinyl/14

Vintage Equipment

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/classifieds/vintage_equipment/17

Analogue

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/classifieds/analog/6

How to setup PS3 with a media server for Windows / Mac / Linux

http://www.rbgrn.net/blog/2007/06/how-to-set-up-media-servers-for-your-ps3-or-xbox-360.html

How to Choose a media server for your PS3

http://www.rbgrn.net/blog/2007/08/how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-software-in-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux.html

Welcome to classicaudio.com

http://www.classicaudio.com/index.html

12 Things to turn off to speed up Vista

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=49831

James Randi Offers $1 Million If Audiophiles Can Prove $7250 Speaker Cables Are Better

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bullshit/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better-305549.php

MonsterCable vs.CoatHanger, Audiophiles can't see difference

http://digg.com/hardware/MonsterCable_vs_CoatHanger_Audiophiles_can_t_see_difference

Turntable Information

Vinyl Asylum

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/bbs.html

http://www.theanalogdept.com/

http://www.retrohifi.co.uk/

How to tune your turntable suspension

http://www.theanalogdept.com/susp_tim_bailey.htm

http://www.theanalogdept.com/suspension.htm

Where to situate the turntable..?

Is your floor really solid...? Or, does it bounce a little when you walk...? Do you plan to put the turntable on top of a floor standing audio rack. Over a bouncy floor..? If so, you won't like these suspended Thorens very much. They are sensitive to foot fall vibes. The solution to bouncy floors and suspended tables is the wall mount. Below are some examples.

diy concept in steel tube, diy concept in wood.

Apollo (commercial) Target (commercial)

note the potential for open access to underside of turntable on these racks. Replace the top shelf with a platform that has a large rectangular opening in it and the rack can also function as your tuning jig.

Kenwood Quadraphonic Logo

Quadraphonic Info

http://members.cox.net/surround/quaddisc/quadindx.htm

Quad Links

http://www.8trackheaven.com/quadlinks.html

Rating DVD PLAYERS from DVD Secrets. (yes it's not just about the price)

This is interesting in that you don't always get what you pay for. Hmmmm

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi

Apple IPHONES

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.must_have_iphone_apps.fortune/index.html

GPS Navigation Information - Cool Site

http://www.gpscarnavigation.net/

Seven HDTV Myths Busted

http://www.retrevo.com/content/special-reports/2008/09/seven-hdtv-myths-busted

Ranking of Largest Canadian Businesses by market CAP

(I work for #17 Rogers Communications)

http://list.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/investor500/2008/q1/top-500/market-value/Default.aspx?sp2=1&sc1=4&d1=d

Rogers is #37 in profitability

http://list.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/investor500/2008/q1/top-50/profits/Default.aspx?sp2=1&d1=d&sc1=2

NEW FLASH OCT 10 2008

TELUS AND BELL ANNOUNCE HSPA 3G LAUNCH.

(I have been saying this will happen for 2 years now)

Telus HSPA Announcement

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2008/10/c5165.html

BELL CANADA

Bell HSPA Announcement

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2008/10/c5177.html

UMA vs. Femtocells.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-06aff137-3aa1-4faa&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=322725

GREAT CAMCORDER REVIEW WEBSITE

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/

Thoughts on why LP's / Records sound better than CD's

http://whatigotsofar.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/why-does-music-sound-better-on-vinyl/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-9964576-47.html

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029

What Causes Heart Problems - Interesting new facts..

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/16/healthmag.cholesterol.inflammation/index.html

How to connect to the Console with windows terminal Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278845

Apple Iphone Enterprise Support page

http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/

RIM VS IPONE...

some interesting thoughts on enterprise and the IPONE..

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-4abb152f-fa01-4279&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-7b6a2c72f30b&sub=322725

ROGERS SPEED TEST...

(Must be on the Rogers Network)

http://rsoesnly1.rci.rogers.ca/t/2170/13850/3607/0/

http://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=support_internetServices_speedCheck&cm_mmc=grdrt-_-all-_-en-_-speedcheck

Blackberry Software Links

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/builtforblackberry/

http://www.blackberrysolutionscatalogue.com/

http://www.mobile.blackberry.com/

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/features/media/mediasync.jsp

Memory Loss - YES I have it sometimes

A Great article explaining what happens to Humans as they age.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/10/24/o.midlife.memory.meltdown/index.html

Who Pays the TAX bill in the US

Interesting data...

Security Clearance Canada / USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance

Blackberry Media File Support and using the desktop manager as well as file conversion info

Great info on which file formats are supported by BB

Supported Media Types on BlackBerry Smartphone

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05482&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=185006185&stateId=1%200%20185004605

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05419&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=14085915&stateId=0%200%2014087972

Blackberry Desktop Media Manager

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/features/mediamanager.jsp

Macbook vs Macbook Air

http://www.retrevo.com/content/special-reports/2008/10/apple-killing-macbook-air?cmpid=Email

http://minidisc.ch/

Kind of Cool - Make your own custom street sign

http://www.ezstreetsigns.com/Default.aspx?TabID=36&CategoryID=2&LangID=0

Some cool things in Physics. Very Interesting....

Eötvös effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_effect

Coriolis effect - Why we have anti skating on a turntable...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Coriolis_effects_in_meteorology

Nov 2, 2008

A LITTLE UPGRADE. for me.

Just auditioned and picked up one of these today.

Marantz PM-80. Class A / Class A/B Integrated amp. AMAZING sound in Class "A" mode..

Thank-you Chris. (you are an awesome Canuk Audio Mart seller)

This 20 year old unit sounds very much like a TUBE amp when run in class "A" mode...

We listened to this amp with these floor standing speakers from Merlin Audio.

http://www.merlinmusic.com/

Absolutely AMAZING - Reference quality speakers.

Link to Stereophiles comments on these being recommended

http://www.merlinmusic.com/reviews/sp_rec_com.htm

We were using this CD transport from the Perreaux audio line.

WOW is all I can say...

Have never heard anything so Analogue like from a CD player.

http://www.perreaux.com/home/

PERREAUX "CD1" CD PLAYER

Also had a chance to listen to one of these amps from Chris is White Rock.

WOW...

PERREAUX "R200I" INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER

R200i 200W Stereo Integrated Amplifier

http://www.perreaux.com/products/radiance/

Also Auditioned and purchased a set of these speakers

Angstrom Pochetto

http://www.angstromloudspeakers.com/detail.php?id=1573&top_cat_id=76

These speakers are amazingly accurate and transparent.

(Note: Room Placement is very important)

Software to convert Blackberry AMR Files...

http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/amr

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html

NCH Software

Really great audio tools etc.

http://www.nchsoftware.com/index.html

Half of Canada's workforce "dragged down" by office negativity

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=50470

$100 netbook will come with broadband strings attached

sub notebook prices are heading south BIG time...

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-69e262ca-020b-43fb&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=322725

Why it's (finally) time to buy stocks

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/03/news/companies/stocks_tully.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008110311

BIG IP from F5

Very cool device to route your IP traffic

http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/

A little about F5

Who relies on F5?

Seven of the Fortune 10 companies rely on F5 as well as Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, and SAP all recommend F5 to their customers. In all, over 16,000 organizations worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running -- and that number just keeps growing.

Great Blackberry Bold Review

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/rim-blackberry-bold-at/4505-6452_7-33016450.html?tag=nl.e723

IPhone sells more units than Blackberry

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/11/07/iphone-passes-rim-gains-on-nokia/

Wow "The Source" files for bankruptcy protection in Canada

Circuit City files for Chapter 11 in the US. NOT GOOD!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/10/intertan.html

Screenshots of Windows 7

Very interesting. MS may be on the right track here.

(seems to be much more MAC like. LOL)

http://itworldcanada.com/articles/windows7/index.htm

HI-FI for your IPOD...

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2423/v/1/?source=weeklyemail&attr=editorial1

VERY IMPORTANT TO GET THE BEST QUALITY FROM YOUR IPOD...

A curious quirk of iTunes is Apple's failure to understand the importance of error correction when ripping CDs to the media player. It also defaults to 128kbps AAC (Advanced Audio Coding… a sort of SuperMP3) as standard. Neither of these settings are acceptable for hi-fi grade listening. Instead, go to the Preferences drop-down menu, and click the Import Settings button on the General box that appears.

Now change the 'Import Using' setting from 'AAC Encoder' to either 'Apple Lossless Encoder' or 'AIFF Encoder' (we prefer AIFF to WAV, because AIFF includes all the metadata about a track as standard). You can adjust the AIFF Encoder (using the 'custom' button directly below) to look specifically for 44.1kHz sampling, 16-bit precision recordings on CD, but 'auto' works well enough. Now beneath these two options is an unchecked box marked 'Use error correction when reading Audio CDs'. Turn this on.

An IPOD DOC that outputs true digital signals...

Interesting

http://www.wadia.com/products/products_main.htm

Recent Ogopogo Story - Nov 10, 2008

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=5680c1d8-fa74-42fe-98b8-5a48872a713f

A little info on MPLS etc.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Differences-between-MPLS-and-frame-relay/546386

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching

New Google Phone review. Kind of a big YAWN I think for now.

http://www.retrevo.com/content/special-reports/2008/11/seven-things-missing-first-google-phone?cmpid=Email

Blackberry Storm Thoughts in Time Magazine.

(not exactly as good as you might think)

BlackBerry Storm: The Novelty Wears Off Fast

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1860717,00.html

• Rim's BlackBerry Storm Awkward and Disappointing

15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/ab029daec0a80006018db581dab5dbc6/pg1.htm

IPHONE ver 2.2 SW is now available from APPLE

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

How to control your PS3 with an infrared remote

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-7847_7-6644963.html?tag=nl.e702

Blue-ray players with analogue 7.1 outputs

Analog assault: Blu-ray players with 7.1 audio outputs

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6463_7-6644614.html?tag=nl.e702

5 Free Anti Virrus Programs you can download

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=50998

Eight reasons to pick the iPhone over the BlackBerry Storm for business

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=50982

2008 Google Most popular holiday gift searches

http://www.google.com/landing/holidayshopping08/gifts.html

Full Screen Flash playback on your PS3... NICE...

http://news.cnet.com/ps3-firmware-update-enables-full-screen-flash-video/?tag=nl.e729

AT&T to start testing femtocells

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10119848-1.html?tag=mncol;posts

RIM ANNOUNCES IT'S BUYING CHALK MEDIA

I predict that lots of folks and businesses are going to be using video clips to help accelerate the learning curve for new technology. (much better than reading the manual)

RIM seems to see this too and is investing in a company that can enable this on a blackberry.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-59968e14-0ed4-4cdc&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-7b6a2c72f30b&sub=322725

http://www.chalk.com/

Mini Monitor for Blackberry Data Usage

http://www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/

Use Kinoma FreePlay, the world's first mobile media browser, to find and play video, audio, and pictures on your mobile phone, home PC, or favorite sites (including YouTube and Flickr).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/totalaccess/software/software/kinoma.mspx

Housing developer installs wireless roaming software

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-a4d209a6-b924-45b8&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=322725

Nortel contemplates bankruptcy, says report

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-d5933f21-1806-4ed6&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=322725

Rockbox Logo

ROCK BOX 3rd party Software for your IPOD and other devices to play lots of different files types

http://www.rockbox.org/

A bit of info on the FLAC PCM compression technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec

Which Tech companies will do well in a recession.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/15/technology/mehta_predictions.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008121509

TASK MANAGER INFO. (Find out WHY your computer is running so sloooooow)

INFO ON PROCESS SCANNER

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=51214

DEC 23, 2008 NETBOOK TECHNOLOGY...

(A net book has no DVD or CD ROM drive)

(The next wave for laptops - maybe)

So I just bought a new LG X110 Net book with Windows XP. (Same as the MSI Wind) Lets just say this is a really cool simple technology that lots of folks are going to want to get into. It all started with the Asus Eee PC and well there's money to be made in this space as so everyone is jumping on board.

For the small sum of $450.00 cdn dollars at Future Shop you get a super small laptop running XP home with 1 gig of ram and a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with hyper-threading. (much better for battery life than dual core chip) and a nice big 160 gig SATA 2.5 inch hard drive along with 3 fast USB 2 ports and external VGA adapter.

Remember the Sony Picture books etc from 2001 - 2004. All these micro laptops were really early net books but with a really high price tag. That's all changed now with the introduction of the latest Net book hardware.

First off running XP home on this little guy with 1 gig of ram on the 1.6 GHz Atom hyper threading processor SCREAMS with speed vs. what you would get with VISTA. Yes Vista is pretty looking and has a few nice features but XP is fast, stable and easy to use plus all the drivers are out there. Again this is not a gaming machine but for text based activates like web surfing, word excel, power point, basic photo work. playing video's it works awesome. I even loaded up my sling player on it and it's just perfect from a playback performance point of view. Again for me it's all about the common use apps not the specialty stuff like editing high def video or playing the latest 3D game.

I'll take fast and stable vs. Slow and pretty any day.

I chose the LG X110 Net book for some very specific reasons...

1. Reasonable sized keyboard. (for instance look how cramped the Toshiba keyboard is)

2. Built in Bluetooth 2.0 EDR (enhanced data rate)

3. XP Home (not really into Linux)

4. 10 inch LED back light display that you can read in direct sunlight

5. 160 Gig Hard Drive

6. Separate Audio in and out jacks

7. Hardware control of WiFi / Volume etc on keyboard

8. Built in SD reader with SDHC support

9. Screen scalability - I set mine for large fonts, turn off all the animation, and set the display to 800 X 600 which is good for me as I have BAD eyes.

10. Great 1.3 mega pixel web cam with reasonable light sensitivity. Surprisingly good performance from the built in Webcam.

AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT...

1. Slot for 3G internal modem (the spot is there but LG removed the header to save money on this North American version)

2. Bigger Battery. The 3 cell 2200 MAH battery is good for 2 hours ish but a 6 cell battery is probably a good idea. (not really something LG is likely to include as it adds to the weight of the unit.)

3. Sound is ok but LG needs to implement some wave guide technology to improve the low end frequency response. Based on what I have seen inside the unit they could put a small set of wave guides in the unit without changing the size .

MSI Wind / LG X110 Netbook review at CNET UK (It gets an 8.8 rating which is pretty good)

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39030093,49297130,00.htm

A quick summary of the LG X110

http://www.ncix.com/go-lg-x110

Ausu Eee PC 1000 reveiw from CNET

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39030093,49298100,00.htm

A Netbook with Windows Vista Business.

Right off the bat the article says - We don't like:

It uses Windows Vista Business, which slows it down

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39030093,49300261,00.htm

Below are some other good links on Netbooks...

GREAT SUMMARY ON WIKIPEDIA RE NETBOOKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks

THE 10 BEST NETBOOKS

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49297248-1,00.htm

Low cost Laptop Cheat Sheet

http://blog.laptopmag.com/low-cost-laptop-cheat-sheet

Why We Procrastinate ... and a way to move forward..

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/30/procrastination.economics/index.html

2009

Happy New Year

Some thoughts on where audio is going...

IS STEREO DEAD ???

The future of Hi-Fi

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2571/v/1/?source=weeklyemail&attr=editorial1

How to Hi-Fi your IPOD...

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2423

Sony Blu-Spec CD

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2439

720P vs 1080P

In my opinion there just isn't a whole lot of difference between 720P and 1080P on 50 inch and smaller sets. Heck even my 55 inch Hitachi pro set looks SPECTACULAR in 720P.

An article to backup my thinking...

(yes the marketing folks want you to buy a 1080P set but you really DON'T need it to enjoy HD)

http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6482_7-6558982-1.html?tag=nl.e702

If you're shopping at the low-end, it pays to remember our oft-repeated rule that even at the relatively large 50-inch screen size, it's tough to tell the difference between 1080p and lower resolution 720p models. That said, the best-performing plasmas we've reviewed all have 1080p resolution, but the reasons have little to do with pixel count. Check out the individual reviews for details.

Push to Talk on Your Blackberry

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackberrycool/mYUU/~3/504398330/

Subject: HipVoice bringing cross carrier push-to-talk to BlackBerry for $10/month. Wow.

I feel bad for all those poor souls that have locked themselves into Sprint/Nextel for push-to-talk functionality, only to wait an average of three years for new iDEN BlackBerrys. HipVoice is a cross carrier push-to-talk service that will soon be launching for BlackBerry. As the video shows above, not only does it work irrespective of your BlackBerry or carrier, subscribers will also be able to communicate with WinMo and Symbian devices (iPhone coming soon). Here are the different ways HipVoice can be used. UNICAST: Push-To-Talk one to one
MULTICAST: Push-To-Talk one to many (Also to Walkie Talkies)
CHANNEL: Push-To-Talk to anyone subscribed to the channel
RICH MESSAGING: Text message users that are on or off-line

HipVoice is looking to charge $10/month for the service. Honestly, I'm not sure how they're doing this, but sign me up. You can learn more about HipVoice at http://hipvoice.com.

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(c) BlackBerry Cool for BlackBerry Cool, 2009

Enhance your Paypal experience with Paypal Security

Have Paypal send you a text message code to your cell evertime you log in to prevent fraud. NICE..

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing_CommandDriven/securitycenter/PayPalSecurityKey-outside

Belkin Wireless Video Connection HD

http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/07_10_08FlyWire.html

PS3 IR Solution

http://www.schmartstuff.com/sony-ps3-ir-upgrad.html

Harmon/Kardon Go + Play

Wow what a great IPOD Player... Just picked one up. (Feb 2009)

Deal of the day at MTF ($149.00 cdn)

No Joy with Iphone or Touch but sure works good with my 160 gig IPODS

Uses the Firewire power wires so you have to have an older IPOD that can charge using the Firewire power system.

Review

http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-player-accessories/harman-kardon-go-play/4505-6519_7-32470848.html?tag=nl.e428

Windows loosing market share to MAC / Linux

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41291/140/

History of Marantz Equipment

http://www.thevintageknob.org/MARANTZ/MARANTZTIMELINE/MARANTZTIMELINE.html

Audio Database

http://audio-database.com/index.html

MARANTZ

http://audio-database.com/MARANTZ/amp/

Furutech's new DF-2 flattens warped LPs, including no-bead 180gm vinyl

http://www.audiyo.com/product_desc2.php?plid=7&cat=54&cat2=152

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1--compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1.European banks at a frightening 61 to 1.....
Fareed Zakaria
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009
The legendary editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, once held a "Boring Headline Contest" and decided that the winner was "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative." Twenty-two years later, the magazine was rescued from its economic troubles by a Canadian media company, which should have taught us Americans to be a bit more humble. Now there is even more striking evidence of Canada's virtues. Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it's Canada. In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada's banking system the healthiest in the world. America's ranked 40th, Britain's 44th.
Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it. Canadian banks are well capitalized and poised to take advantage of opportunities that American and European banks cannot seize. The Toronto Dominion Bank, for example, was the 15th-largest bank in North America one year ago. Now it is the fifth-largest. It hasn't grown in size; the others have all shrunk.
So what accounts for the genius of the Canadians? Common sense. Over the past 15 years, as the United States and Europe loosened regulations on their financial industries, the Canadians refused to follow suit, seeing the old rules as useful shock absorbers. Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1-compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1 and European banks at a frightening 61 to 1. Partly this reflects Canada's more risk-averse business culture, but it is also a product of old-fashioned rules on banking.
Canada has also been shielded from the worst aspects of this crisis because its housing prices have not fluctuated as wildly as those in the United States. Home prices are down 25 percent in the United States, but only half as much in Canada. Why? Well, the Canadian tax code does not provide the massive incentive for overconsumption that the U.S. code does: interest on your mortgage isn't deductible up north. In addition, home loans in the United States are "non-recourse," which basically means that if you go belly up on a bad mortgage, it's mostly the bank's problem. In Canada, it's yours. Ah, but you've heard American politicians wax eloquent on the need for these expensive programs-interest deductibility alone costs the federal government $100 billion a year-because they allow the average Joe to fulfill the American Dream of owning a home. Sixty-eight percent of Americans own their own homes. And the rate of Canadian homeownership? It's 68.4 percent. Canada has been remarkably responsible over the past decade or so. It has had 12 years of budget surpluses, and can now spend money to fuel a recovery from a strong position. The government has restructured the national pension system, placing it on a firm fiscal footing, unlike our own insolvent Social Security. Its health-care system is cheaper than America's by far (accounting for 9.7 percent of GDP, versus 15.2 percent here), and yet does better on all major indexes. Life expectancy in Canada is 81 years, versus 78 in the United States; "healthy life expectancy" is 72 years, versus 69. American car companies have moved so many jobs to Canada to take advantage of lower health-care costs that since 2004, Ontario and not Michigan has been North America's largest car-producing region. I could go on. The U.S. currently has a brain-dead immigration system. We issue a small number of work visas and green cards, turning away from our shores thousands of talented students who want to stay and work here. Canada, by contrast, has no limit on the number of skilled migrants who can move to the country. They can apply on their own for a Canadian Skilled Worker Visa, which allows them to become perfectly legal "permanent residents" in Canada-no need for a sponsoring employer, or even a job. Visas are awarded based on education level, work experience, age and language abilities. If a prospective immigrant earns 67 points out of 100 total (holding a Ph.D. is worth 25 points, for instance), he or she can become a full-time, legal resident of Canada. Companies are noticing. In 2007 Microsoft, frustrated by its inability to hire foreign graduate students in the United States, decided to open a research center in Vancouver. The company's announcement noted that it would staff the center with "highly skilled people affected by immigration issues in the U.S." So the brightest Chinese and Indian software engineers are attracted to the United States, trained by American universities, then thrown out of the country and picked up by Canada-where most of them will work, innovate and pay taxes for the rest of their lives. If President Obama is looking for smart government, there is much he, and all of us, could learn from our quiet-OK, sometimes boring-neighbor to the north. Meanwhile, in the councils of the financial world, Canada is pushing for new rules for financial institutions that would reflect its approach. This strikes me as, well, a worthwhile Canadian initiative. URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/183670

HI-FI WORLD BUYING GUIDE

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgintro.html

BUYING GUIDE - MINIDISCS

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgminidiscs.html

BUYING GUIDE & REVIEWS - COMPACT DISC PLAYERS - UNDER £300

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgcdplayers.html

BUYING GUIDE - TUNERS - UNDER £200

TUNERS - £200+

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgtuners.html

BUYING GUIDE & REVIEWS - CARTRIDGES - UNDER £200

CARTRIDGES - OVER £200

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgcartridges.html

BUYING GUIDE - TONEARMS

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgtonearms.html

POWER AMPLIFIERS - UNDER £800

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgpoweramps.html

BUYING GUIDE & REVIEWS - CASSETTE DECKS - UNDER £300

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgcassdecks.html

BUYING GUIDE & REVIEWS - DVD PLAYERS

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgdvd.html

INTEGRATED AMPLIFIERS - UNDER £300

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgintamps.html

BUYING GUIDE - TURNTABLES - UNDER £80

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/bgturntables.html

http://www.oaktreeent.com/index.htm

Vintage Stereo Equipment

FM Tuner Specs. . . . . . . What do they actually mean?

http://www.fanfarefm.com/fm-specs.html

FM TUNER BAKE OFF - Info on various tuners from Audio Ideas Guide

http://www.audio-ideas.com/reviews/tuners/aig-tuner-project-intro.html

http://www.audioscope.net/index.php?language=en

Very Nice Vintage Used Electronics from Europe.

Press the American Flag icon to go to US Dollars

NICE MARANTZ EQUIPMENT FOR SALE...

http://www.fl-electronic.de/neuklang/marantz.html

Great Vintage Audio Site...

http://www.audio-extasa.eu/

Great Photos of Vintage Equipment.

Yes Vinyl SALES ARE UP in the US

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/27/smallbusiness/new_spin_on_vinyl.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2009030209

Interesting bundle an Album with an MP3

Cool idea. My only request. Code at 320 kbs for max quality.

Audio Database

Cool info on stereo equipment from the past

http://audio-database.com/index.html

Great Site for Used Audio Equipment

http://www.audiogon.com/index.html

http://diamondgroove.com/default.aspx

A place to buy new Vinyl in Canada

Kenwood

http://www.vintage-audio.com.ua/en/cat/390/2625.html

Ultimate Sound - Vintage Audio

http://ultimatesound1.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html

Vintage Audio Site

http://www.wired4sound.net.au/

Serious HIGH END Luxman Equipment. (Mortgage not included)

http://www.onahighernote.com/

A Quote from their site which I FULLY agree with.

Easy On the Ear

A piece of audio equipment should offer excellent performance specifications.

Yet, the product that performs the best on paper is not necessarily the best sounding one - because there is no way to relate specifications to the degree of emotion a product evokes in the heart of the listener.

While LUXMAN place a great importance on numerical analysis of our products, still greater significance is given to actual auditions.

In essence, our performance concept is to ensure that a component produces the most natural sound possible when it plays back music.

Our senses are quick to detect unnaturalness in what we hear.

Artificial sound tires us, but rich, natural sound relaxes and frees us from stress and tension, letting us enjoys music at the deepest level.

Neat Speed test Software for Blackberry

http://www.xtremelabs.com/apps

Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/

Ya this is cool...

From this website...

http://www.retrothing.com/hifi_audio/

Pocket-Sized Headphone & Turntable Amp With Genuine Glowing Tube

Innards_2

Trends Audio PA-10 product page

Upgrading My Vintage iPod

My third generation iPod will soon celebrate its 5th birthday, which ought to qualify it for an old age pension in the electronics world. I keep casting a lustful eye at Apple's newest offerings, but the truth is that my scratched and abused old player still does everything it should. Its biggest downfalls are a lack of storage space - a cramped 15 GB Toshiba hard drive - and increasingly poor battery life.
Cf adapter
I looked into the price of replacement drives, but they're expensive and require me to replace the metal back with a deeper one. It makes more sense to jump into the futuristic world of flash memory. DealExtreme sells a nifty $4.95 Compact Flash adapter that lets you replace the standard 1.8" Toshiba drive with a CF card ranging up to 32 GB (around $60). That fits the bill for me.

Comments on why CD's don't sound that great compared to SACD or Analogue Recordings.

The Future of Sound: SACD

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 24, 2001

by Edward Jay Epstein

Mark Levinson, the archguru of ultra hi-fi musical reproduction, has stopped recording music on conventional CDs. He no longer even listens to them. And, while his name still is burnished on some of the world's most expensive CD players -- the Mark Levinson Reference CD Player, for example -- by a company which bought his brand, and name, years ago, he discourages clients at his own company, Red Rose Music, from buying conventional CD gear. Instead, he records all his music in the new Super Audio CD format (SACD) and recommends to his customers that, if they want digital music, they buy SACD players.

SACD, which was recently launched in America by Sony and Philips, the same partnership that, a quarter century earlier, developed and patented the CD, is identical to the CD in its dimensions and appearance but has a different and far superior way of encoding and decoding digital sound.

Mr. Levinson explains that this change is crucial to the future of digital sound. "SACD addresses what has become an international epidemic: PCM." PCM, which stands for Pulse Code Modulation, is the operating system used for all digital sound -- CDs, movies, television, DVDs, computers, etc. -- with the exception of SACDs. Mr. Levinson's concern about PCM goes beyond the quality of the music it reproduces. He believes that PCM induces toxic stress in listeners.

The Sony executives responsible for marketing this new format do not share Mr. Levinson's view about the toxicity of PCM. But they acknowledged that there were sonic problems with PCM, which had resulted in reports of "listening fatigue," as David Kawakami, who directs the Super Audio project for Sony, put it to me. All agreed that SACD was vastly superior. So why had PCM become the standard for digital sound?

Mr. Kawakami explained that PCM had come about as an engineering solution to "a bit-management problem." In the early 1980s, Sony stipulated two requisites for developing digital sound. First, the container itself, which was the CD disk, could not be more than 4.75 inches in diameter -- a dimension that would allow CD players to meet the European standard for an audio player on an automobile's dashboard. This meant, given the state-of-the-art technology then, that the CD could not hold more than 650 million bits of data. Second, it had to be capable of playing at least 70 minutes of music -- the length of a typical symphony -- which required more than 2.5 billion bits of digital data.

To meet these seemingly contradictory requirements, part of the signal had to be eliminated, but without degrading the sound so much that it became unacceptable to the public. Enter PCM. This ingenious electronic fiddle truncated the original bandwidth from 100,000 to 20,000 hertz, since humans cannot normally hear frequencies above 15,000 hertz, and "sampled," or took a digital snapshot, of the remaining information 44,000 times a second. This doctored data was repackaged into 16-bit packets capable of playing back a symphony in 74 minutes or less.

Of course, the acoustical engineers who invented PCM knew that the condensed 16-word product would be inferior to the original: For one thing, filters, on both the encoding and decoding ends, cause audible "errors." For another, chopping out all the information between 20,000 and 100,000 Hertz reduced the harmonic depth of the music itself. Still, PCM did provide a highly convenient means of getting sound, or its approximation, to the masses. Sony, with its partner Philips, gradually managed to convince enough people that the PCM CD offered superior sound to LPs and that its aural replication of music was . . . perfect. They and their licensees have so far sold roughly one billion CD players and 20 billion CDs.

Some diehard audiophiles refused to settle for the Procrustean world of PCM. They spent as much as $10,000 and more for digital-to-analog converters designed to ameliorate the filtering errors in PCM. But even the most expensive outboard digital gear could not restore the missing bandwidth. By the mid-1990s, however, digital sound technology had taken a giant step forward, enabling Sony to exorcise the PCM demon.

The answer was already for sale in every consumer electronics store in the world: the DVD. Originally developed to store digital video, the DVD player had a laser which could read marks packed much closer together than those on an audio CD. As a result, a DVD could store about eight times as much data as the CD. Indeed, there was more than enough room on a DVD to directly stream in single bits of a digital record of the sound of a 74-minute symphony, sampled 2.8 million times every second. The difference is evident when one listens in the Sony studio through earphones to the actual digital bitstream. With PCM, all that is heard is a hash of hisses. With SACD, so closely did this digital stream approximate the original that one can actually hear the music. And since this streaming did not need to be repackaged into 16-bit words or truncated at all, no digital filtering was used. It conveyed the entire bandwidth, audible or inaudible, up to 100,000 hertz.

Aside from being closer to the music (see Figure #1), it was simpler than jerry-rigged PCM and, therefore, cheaper to implement. The Super Audio project, under Mr. Kawakami's direction, was quickly green-lighted.

By this fall, Sony, once again partners with Philips, plans to sell SACD players for under $300. They will also be backwardly compatible with conventional CDs so that consumers can play the CDs they already own. Some 200 SACDs have already been issued.

Being an early adopter, I bought an SACD player as soon as it was available. But then I discovered my very expensive ($10,000) pre-amp redigitalized the SACDs into PCM. Aside from this sophisticated circuitry, there was the problem of the volume control. Like that of many other pre-amps, mine filtered out all bandwidth over 20,000 hertz. That is because, before the introduction of SACD, sonic information over 20,000 hertz would be heard as unintended noise. So I still was not getting the full benefit of SACD.

Surfing the Internet with key words like "audiophile" and "volume control," I then found in Boise, Idaho, something called a passive volume attenuator, made by Placette Audio and sold for $1,400. By using several dozen precision resistors, costing about 300 times as much as a conventional volume control, the Placette was capable of controlling the volume from the SACD without filtering out any of its bandwidth.

Once I had hooked up my Placette, I was finally able to listen to unadulterated PCM-free music. I listened on available SACDs, selling for about $25 -- everything from jazz and church choirs on the DMP sampler I bought to classical Bach on an acoustical guitar and a Rupert Brooke poem, read by "Sex and the City" actress Kim Cattrall (who is Mark Levinson's wife) on Red Rose Music's sampler.

After two weeks of listening, and comparing CD and SACD tracks of the same original recording, I can say unequivocally that I have heard the future, and it is SACD.

Some Really interesting Quotes on CD's and Vinyl Records...

From Stereophile Website

http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/is_analog_dead/

Is Analog Dead?
By John Atkinson • June, 1990

1950: "The ultimate in disc recording is to make the reproduced sound as near as possible to the original..." (The founder of Audio magazine, C.G. McProud, in "Recording Characteristics," Audio Engineering, January 1950, reprinted in The 2nd Audio Anthology, p.67, Radio Magazines, 1954.)

1951: "One of the important factors in the public acceptance of LP discs is the fact that they can be played with a total absence of surface noise..." (Maximilian Weil in "Phono Facts," Audio Engineering, June 1951, reprinted in The 2nd Audio Anthology, p.62, Radio Magazines, 1954.)

1979: "Digital audio recording promises to bring us a level of fidelity so far above that of both the mechanical disc and the analog tape recording that it cannot be ignored by anyone seeking the highest possible fidelity." (Stereophile's founder, J. Gordon Holt, in Stereophile, Vol.4 No.4, p.3.)

1980: "It has become a mindlessly parroted truism...that digital recording is the...wave of the future. At the same time, there isn't a single audiophile-oriented equipment reviewer, record producer or music critic who finds the treble range of current digital recordings musically natural and enjoyable." (Iconoclastic audio critic Peter Aczel in The Audio Critic, Vol.2 No.3, Spring through Fall 1980, p.18.)

1981: "Our feeling...is that [digital] doesn't offer any significant advantages over the best that analog can do. But we expect that in time it certainly will." (Recording engineer Gerald Reynolds of Nimbus Records, who a year or so earlier had produced a 45rpm LP set, Comparisons, where pianist Bernard Roberts had recorded Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" sonata direct-to-disc, on a ½" Ampex analog tape recorder using Dolby-A noise reduction, and via an early Sony PCM-1600 A/D converter. (It is one of life's delicious ironies that though Nimbus started the 1980s furiously committed to direct-to-disc and to analog tape, they were one of the first record companies to stop issuing LPs.) Quoted in HFN/RR, January 1981, p.61.)

1982: "Compact Disc...will not make the analog disc obsolete...Both systems will coexist for a long time. It is true that, last time around, the new and compatible microgroove records established themselves very quickly; but there was not, then, a record player in almost every home..." (Sony's Roger Lagadec, then with Studer-Revox, in "Digital Audio, the Studer View," Studio Sound, March 1982, and reprinted in HFN/RR, May 1982.)

1982: "Most critical listeners...have agreed that there are certain things unmistakably wrong with the majority of digitally-mastered analog discs." (J. Gordon Holt in Stereophile, Vol.5 No.7, September 1982, p.6.)

1982: "Just as Compact Cassette hasn't replaced the LP...CD in the immediate future will join, rather than replace, analog technology." (Myself in "Compact Disc, John Atkinson scratches his head," HFN/RR, November 1982.)

1983: "You're looking at the extraordinary new Compact Disc, the music format of the future." (A Sony UK advertisement in March 1983.)

1983: "It will take 10 years for the CD to replace the LP." (Steven N. Harris of Tannoy, then Product Manager of Marantz UK, commenting to me on the British launch of CD in March 1983.)

1983: "I have heard our hi-fi future, and...it is a clattering, clamorous cacophony." (Sacramento high-end retailer Keith Yates in "Slipped Discs," Sacramento, May 1983.)

1983: "I have watched with more than casual interest the unprecedented promotion for the CD. The traditionally noncritical audio magazines in the United States have been positively drooling over the merits of the CD. This created a demand for the player months before they even went on sale." (Famed mastering engineer Doug Sax in "CD: A Lie Repeated Often Enough Becomes Truth," Stereophile, Vol.6 No.5, November, 1983.)

1985: "I have not heard a single compact disc that sounds as good as the identical recording." (Music critic Edward Rothstein in "The Quest for Perfect Sound," The New Republic, December 30, 1985.)

1986: "Every technological advance in sound reproduction has been hailed as 'unmusical,' 'unnatural,' and 'contrary to God's law.' The first stereo discs were castigated by most sonically-aware critics on precisely the same grounds, except that two new cavil criteria had been added: inner-groove distortion and mistracking. Could we really have expected CD to be greeted with any less skepticism. What about giving CD the 28-year chance to prove itself that we gave the LP?" (J. Gordon Holt in "Give CD a Chance," Stereophile, Vol.9 No.6, September, 1986, p.5.)

1986: "It will probably be several years before the CD repertoire catches up with that of the LP phonograph record." (Two widely read mainstream audio writers, Hans Fantel of The New York Times and Ivan Berger of Audio, in The New Sound of Stereo, Plume Books, New American Library, February 1986.)

1988: "The existence of more than 3 billion LPs would suggest that it will be some time before the flimsy little silver discs entirely obsolete the LP." (Harry Pearson in answer to a reader's letter in The Absolute Sound, #52, Spring 1988, p.22.)

1988: "A 16-bit digital system with a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz is of the most heavenly and incontrovertible perfection (barring vulgar hardware and software foul-ups...)." (Iconoclastic audio critic Peter Aczel in The Audio Critic, Issue No.11, Winter/Spring 1988, p.35.)

1988: "A properly dithered 16-bit digital audio storage system with accurate analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters will outperform any analog storage medium in existence..." (Stanley P. Lipshitz, erstwhile President of the Audio Engineering Society and, with his associate John Vanderkooy, one of the acknowledged "Fathers of Digital Dither," in "Are D/A Converters Getting Worse?," AES Preprint 2586, presented at the March 1988 Paris AES Convention.)

1989: "149,700,000 Total CD sales for 1988. 72,000,000 Total LP sales for 1988." ("Broken Records," The San Francisco Examiner, July 9, 1989.)

1989: "We'll...carry turntables as long as they're available...I believe they'll be available for 10 years." (Wayne Inouye of retail chain The Good Guys, quoted in that The San Francisco Examiner article.)

1989: "We are living in the Golden Age of the Used LP...the non-audiophile music lovers of this country are divesting themselves of their LP collections at a rapid rate. Though this reflects the tragic demise of vinyl as a viable retail commodity, it's a bonanza for those of us who continue to love LPs." (Stereophile Publisher Larry Archibald in "Get' em while they're hot—before they're not," "The Final Word," Stereophile, Vol.12 No.5, p.210.)

1989: "It's a rapidly declining market, but...yes, I could sell more [LPs]...[The major labels] have cut out so many LPs and the ones they haven't deleted...often take as much as 3–4 months to come in." (Specialist record store owner Jim Albright, interviewed by Richard Lehnert in Stereophile, Vol.12 No.9, p.32. His store, Rare Bear, Santa Fe's last to stock an in-depth LP catalog, will be selling exclusively cassette and CD by the time you receive this issue.)

1989: "Stop buying records and start getting CDs." (Stereo Review Editor-at-Large William Livingstone in "Goodbye LPs, Hello CDs," USA Weekend, September 29, 1989.)

1990: "Turntables and scraping needles are as out of style as a Hyundai, the Berlin Wall, junk bonds, Cabbage Patch dolls, and blackened redfish." (An anonymous writer in "Current Samples," CD Review, January 1990, p.10.)

1990: "6,500,000 CD players." (The EIA's estimated sales to dealers of home and portable CD players in 1989, quoted in This Week in Consumer Electronics, January 15–19, 1990, p.28.)

1990: "CD player sales will still continue to grow at a faster pace than any other category in the industry." (Sony's director of hi-fi products, Bob Weissburg, quoted in that TWICE article. (LP turntables were not listed.)

1990: "Vinyl records...are all but extinct." (Tristram Lozaw in "Is the CD boom good for sound or just sound business?," The Boston Herald, March 30, 1990.)

1990: "I sold off my LP collection (about 2500 LPs) five years ago. I miss many of the records..." (Charles C. White, Jr. in a letter to the editor, Stereophile, Vol.13 No.5, p.37.)

1990: "Considered as sound, the early CDs were perhaps the biggest scam in the history of consumer electronics." (Movie critic David Denby in New York magazine, February 19, 1990, p.38.)

1990: "The record industry has been successful in its pogrom of destruction of analog..." (Loudspeaker designer and recording engineer David Wilson, interviewed elsewhere in this issue of Stereophile.)

1990: "Analog is finished." (A statement made to me by Goldmund's Michel Reverchon, over an excellent lunch one April 1990 day at Santa Fe's Comme Chez Vous restaurant, explaining why Goldmund is no longer manufacturing analog turntables.)

1990: "We are selling the last of our record players...whether we start up production again [at the end of 1990] depends on the market...we are hoping to manufacture a CD transport for another company." (Gifted engineer and turntable manufacturer John Bicht of Versa Dynamics, in a telephone conversation with me at the end of April 1990.)

1990: "Unless people walk over records with golf shoes or let their lava lamps explode on them, vinyl records will virtually always sound better than a CD." (TAS Senior Popular Music Editor Michael Fremer, quoted in the Lozaw Boston Herald article.)

1990: "JA, TJN, and I are just back from the recording sessions for Stereophile's second LP—if we can get the master successfully transferred to lacquer...the record will be something to hear." (Larry Archibald in "The Final Word," Stereophile, Vol.13 No.3, p.226.)

In response to the question that titles this month's "As We See It" column, I'll leave it to these objets trouvés to convey what the world thinks the answer should be. (I assume it's pretty clear how Stereophile sees it.)

While compiling these quotations, however, I find it hard to believe that almost exactly eight years ago, I sat in on a series of conferences where the then Managing Director of Sony UK, one Tim Steele, tried to hard-sell skeptical record-company executives on the benefits of CD to their business. "Who needs it?" was the overwhelming reaction to that Sony presentation; even in November of 1982—after the Japanese launch of the medium—a friend of mine who was a classical label manager at a major classical company was asking my opinion on the long-term viability of CD. These days, I wished I'd been a little less positive in my reply!

Stereophile 2008 records 2 Die 4

http://stereophile.com/records2die4/2008_records_to_die_for/

All Records 2 Die 4

http://www.stereophile.com/records2die4/

How to clean your Vinyl LP Records...

http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/josh_bizars_secret_record_cleaning_method/.

Great Web site for Marantz and Philips info pictures manuals etc etc

http://www.marantzphilips.nl/

MARANTZ DCC-92 Digital Compact Cassette Deck

Some interesting DCC (Digital Compact Cassette Info)

http://www.marantzphilips.nl/marantz_dd82_dcc_recorder/#review

http://www.marantzphilips.nl/marantz_dd92_dcc_recorder/

Sony 1995 1996 ES Catalogues

http://audioidiots.com/merk.catalogus.scanned.php?catalogusID=501

Bell is Buying the Source in Canada

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=52244

MS Windows Mobile Recite - cool software to keep track of things using your voice.

http://recite.microsoft.com/Pages/about.aspx

Mobile Manager for Netflix... COOL...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/totalaccess/software/software/netflix.mspx

http://recite.microsoft.com/Pages/index.aspx

http://www.soundonsound.com/

Sony Esupport Web Site. HANDY for Sony Manuals in PDF format...

http://esupport.sony.com/

Pick your area on the left side drop down menu...

Harman Kardon Owners Manuals Free!!! - Product Support

http://www.harmankardon.com/product_support/interstitial.aspx

Marantz Manuals Free Product Support

Achieved Manuals

http://www.marantz.com/new/index.cfm?fuseaction=Products.ArchProds&cont=eu&bus=hf

Current Manuals

http://www.marantz.com/new/index.cfm?fuseaction=Products.ProdDownloadHome&cont=eu&bus=hf

Cool Japanese Site with Great equipment

Auto translated by google.

http://www.hifimuseum.nl/

Translated by google

Hi-Fidelity Museum

Hi-Fi Heritage

http://www.hifi-museum.com/hf/index.html

Lossless comparison

FLAC comparison to other Lossless Codecs

Great article on Wikipedia explaining differences between lossless codecs.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison

Play FLAC files on your PS3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3_Media_Server

Play FLAC Files on the go

The Rio Karma (I have one) will play Flac Files

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Karma

http://www.dapreview.net/p/content/content.php?content.193

Not sure if anyone has heard the news today but Google is offering FREE phone service with a bunch of features.

http://www.google.com/voice/about

Looks like it works with Grand Central.

Skype is also moving the bar forward with enhancements.

Skype for cell phones

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/mobile/

Skype for Windows Mobile

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windowsmobile/

I expect a lot of development for wireless devices in 2009 with these kinds of products.

As well Blackberry IP Push to talk technology is either in market or arriving soon. (Hipvoice)

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/01/hipvoice-bringing-cross-carrier-push-to-talk-to-blackberry-for-10month-wow/

Pro Network Engineering tools. (Handy to diagnose those network problems)

http://www.solarwinds.com/products/toolsets/engineer.aspx

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HW-165

http://www.element-acoustics.ca/index.html

It's important to Clean Your Records to get the best sound.

http://www.soundstage.com/vinyl/vinyl031999.htm

Some interesting reading on music compression technologies.

http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/56/

http://www.stereophile.com/features/308mp3cd/

PASC which Digital Compact Cassette uses gets a decent comment about transparency.

A great Phono cartridge worth looking at. The Sure M97XE. (haven't bought one yet but plan to)

Shure M97xE...Std. Mount Only
Tracking Ability=A+
Detail=B
HF/Sibilants=B+
Separation/IGD=B+*****w/absolute perfect alignment only
Hum=B+
Installation=A
Durability=B+
Score=B+
Price=$57 thru www.amazon.com.
Remarks: Although it does feature super great looks with a chrome-like body that sports a unique dustbrush...this cart only approaches first rate sound. It may very well be the most neutral sounding cartridge ever made! The cart certainly is a great cure for the harsh sound that other brighter units sometimes embrace. It needs to be pampered a bit with dead accurate "overhang adjustment". This is necessary for lower inner groove distortion and extracting the special emotion that lies within the groove walls. A free stylus protractor is available from www.enjoythemusic.com. Make no mistake though...it is a bargain! It mounts easily in just about any tonearm you can think of. The Dynamic Stabilizer/brush renders top rate warp tracking in any tonearm with low bearing friction in both planes making it suitable for both low mass straight types or medium massed "S" designs. Mates perfectly well in Rega RB-250, Dual 1200 Series, AR EB and Pioneer PL-518 tonearms. Might very well be the sleeper in this group!

http://www.epinions.com/content_4327645316

April 14th Financial Headlines..

How the crisis happened

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/07/pf/ferguson_financial_crisis.moneymag/index.htm?postversion=2009040804

Stores suffer big drop in March sales

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/14/news/economy/retail_sales/index.htm

Wholesale prices in sharp decline

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/14/news/economy/ppi/index.htm

Still More Economic Pain Ahead

Economist Nouriel Roubini says there is too much optimism about the state of the economy.

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2009/04/14/roubini.bearmarket.041409.cnnmoney

Triple-digit selloff on Dow

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/14/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?postversion=2009041415

My thoughts are simple. Job are continuing to be lost

House prices mean that between 1/5 and 1/6 th of Americans are under water on their mortgage.

NEXT UP panic selling from people who just made 20% and want to lock in their profits.

The last time the market went up 20% in five weeks was 1933. THE MIDDLE of the great depression.

There are NO fast answers here. The economy is going to take a while to fix

Great Depression vs. 'Great Recession'

Comparisons between this economic recession and the Great Depression are common, but the granddaddy of all downturns was far worse.

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/recession_depression/

Place to get info parts for your Vintage Reel to Reel etc.

http://www.vintagemechanism.com/

April 20, 2009

Great Headphone Review

http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/uan/2868/v/3/?source=weeklyemail&attr=editorial1

InstaMapper

Instamapper for BB and Iphone

http://www.instamapper.com/

BLAST FROM THE PAST ELECTRONIC DESIGNS... VERY INTERESTING

http://my.reset.jp/~inu/ProductsDataBase/index2.htm

A Great Video on How Vinyl Records are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iByt8IinjC0&feature=related

EE Reel to Reel Tape info (extra efficiency tape)

Akai GX-636 EE tape info

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14486

http://audiokarma.org/

my handle is pdemara

Very cool site for discussions

Are Record Stores Worth Saving

Part 1

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10227429-49.html?tag=mncol;txt

Part 2

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10228277-49.html?tag=nl.e428

Part 3

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10228276-49.html?tag=nl.e428

Awesome Site for tube info...

http://www.decware.com/

Cool YOUTUBE SNOWBALL THE BIRD DANCING...(My Bird Dances too, have to video tape him)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/01/dancing.parrots/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYS09bfylA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZmRnAo6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOZp2ZftCw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvuWjqxL5io&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMBIGTteWA

Phono Cartridge Data Base

Find out what fits with what...

http://www.cartridgedb.com/

Planes start to get onboard WiFi Service

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/business.travel/05/04/airplane.wifi/index.html

A great site for photographers...

http://www.photocrati.com/

Tuner Information Site. VERY COOL INFO AND SPECS ON TUNERS.

YES TUNERS - Setup properly, a good tuner can really be a musical treat.

Vintage is best as most new tuners are not generally very good quality.

(Remember, you get what you pay for..)

http://fmtunerinfo.com/

Very Nice High End Champagne Stereo Equipment...

http://www.accuphase.com/

Acuuphase Museum... NICE...

http://www.hifi-museum.com/js/ap/accuindex.htm

HI-FI Museum...

http://www.hifi-museum.com/index.html

The Next WAVE Pico Projectors. Cool Man.... Cool...

http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/picoprojectorroundup?cmpid=Email

Vintage Reel to Reel Technology Article...

http://www.clydesight.com/wollensak_reel_to_reel_tape_recorder/index.html

http://www.clydesight.com/wollensak_reel_to_reel_tape_recorder/reel_to_reel.html

I myself have an Akai GX-77 reel to reel. (recently bought on eBay - April 2009)

I like it because it's auto reverse and uses metal foil on the tape to auto reverse at the end of the tape,

The GX-77 has awesome sound and has a dust cover that you can use while playing tapes.

It's from around 1982 so it's 25+ years old but considered one of the best 7 1/2 inch reel to reel decks out there.

As well it uses famous Akai Glass GX heads which are supposed to last a very long time compared to other heads.

Time will tell on this issue.

Have to find some chrome tapes as they are supposed to sound awesome.

Specs wise it has very low wow and flutter, decent noise figures and a frequency repose with the right tape at 7 1/2 inches per second to 33,000 hz.

The transport is also logic controlled and hence much easier on taps.

It also has two banks of heads. one set of 3 for each direction. (6 heads total)

Star Trek Tech We Use Today

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/403521e5c0a8000601144f66c54ff52e/pg1.htm

Microsoft says to business "Don't deploy Vista, wait for Windows 7"

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-b345d050-d423-4b2f&Portal=4fb7319b-aa7c-423a-822d-2f6e24698c71&sub=322725

PC biz headed for a wireless shakeup

http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/05/20/pc-biz-headed-for-a-wireless-shakeup/

AWESOME NEW Cooking PRODUCT for the OUTDOORS

http://www.flashpan.ca/flashpan_in_action.html

Understanding HDMI

A Beginners Guide

http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/hdmi-interface-a-beginners-guide

More HDMI Specs and info on connectors etc...

http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/hdmi-interface-a-beginners-guide/hdmi-interface-a-beginners-guide-page-2

Understanding HDMI ver 1.3

http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/understanding-hdmi-ver-1.3

Understanding HDMI differences ver 1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3 / 1.3a

http://www.audioholics.com/education/display-formats-technology/understanding-difference-hdmi-versions

The Geek Chic Checklist - 22 Sure Signs You're a Geek

http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/4a80b134c0a8000601144f66ab95fdd8/pg1.htm

An interesting Concept 20% time at Google to foster innovation

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2009/05/27/fortune.google.tt.052709.cnnmoney/

BlackBerry vs. iPhone - 30-day test tells which is best for business

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?sub=true&id=53310

Not sure I agree with everything in this article as I am a die hard BB user who also loves the iphone.

Bottom line is there is still room for innovation with ALL mobile devices.

Mindfulness training busts stress

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/01/mindfulness.training.stress/index.html

A really interesting article on how to combat stress. I fully agree with the thinking.

SKYFIRE BROWSER SUPPORTS FLASH 10

on SYMBIAN AND WM DEVICES

NICE...

http://get.skyfire.com/

Download from here...

http://www.get.skyfire.com/

Skyfire runs on these phones

Currently, Skyfire runs on Windows Mobile (smartphones and PPC) and Nokia N and E Series (Symbian S60, 3rd Edition) phones. Right now, we're officially launched in the US, Canada and UK.

Select your phone platform below to learn more.

Today's netbooks are a hard sell for CIOs

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-cda90646-fe93-4b46&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-7b6a2c72f30b&sub=322725

Great Place to buy various Audio Cables

http://www.techcables.com/

Cool ES System in France

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sony-ES-serie/index.html

Netbook Sales On the Rise in Canada

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-cb34757a-a4d8-422f&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-7b6a2c72f30b&sub=322725

Palm Pre Vs. Iphone

http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/8difference_AppleiPhoneandPalmPre?cmpid=Email

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-647d02c5-15ce-4d87&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-7b6a2c72f30b&sub=322725

Smart phones still strong, despite overall decline in mobile phone sales

First-quarter shipments of traditional mobile phones fell 37 per cent this year, while smart phone shipments grew by 33 per cent, according to IDC Canada Ltd.’s revised Canadian mobile phone forecast. The results are largely due to increased shipments of BlackBerry smart phones to the channel.

Overall, mobile phone market sales to channel partners fell 23 per cent compared to the first quarter last year. While drops in first-quarter shipments to the channel are typically related to seasonal factors, IDC notes this year's drop was “especially sharp” due to the recession.

Weak demand from end users, higher unemployment and tighter credit conditions are listed as contributing factors.

IDC Canada predicts an 8.3 per cent drop in the global mobile phone market this year, but anticipates the smart phone segment will continue to grow by 3.4 per cent.

eCommercePlayer

Taking audio and video

http://www.ecommerceplayer.com/info/EbaySellers.aspx

Canadians Traveling to the US.

Required documents Info...

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/whti-ivho/menu-eng.html

THE TAPE PLACE TM

A neat place to buy old reel to reel / cassette and yes 8 Track Tapes

(Hey they are all analogue formats so they sound great)

http://www.thetapeplace.net/

Windows 7 Release Candidate

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx?ITPID=wcfeed

A cool website with some great history of computers.

http://oldcomputers.net/

Re-master your music to high-definition and 5.1 surround

DVD Audio Creation Software

http://www.cirlinca.com/

Vintage Dual Turntable Website.

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Great summary of all the old 70's Dual Turntables.

http://dual-reference.com/tableinx.htm

(I myself have an old Dual 1216)

Complete Dual Reference Site. Cool...

http://dual-reference.com/

How to send a Text Message to a Rogers Phone

http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-text/send_message

MS OUTLOOK PLUG IN TO SEND TEXT MESSAGES

http://your.rogers.com/business/wireless/plans_services/smsoutlookplugin.asp

EMAIL TO SMS ROGERS ETC

http://www.theblog.ca/free-sms-canada

TAP SMS Paging Numbers for Rogers

http://www.notepage.net/tap-phone-numbers-q.htm

WCTP INFO for various Carriers

http://www.notepage.net/wctp.htm

SNPP Info for Various Cariers including Rogers

http://www.notepage.net/snpp.htm

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
email delivery Rogers

http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm

CB Radio Info

CB Radio Info

Various Sites with info on CB Radios

http://www.rigpix.com/cbfreeband/cbfreebandselect.htm

http://www.cbtricks.com/radios/index.htm

Realistic CB Radios

http://www.cbtricks.com/radios/realistic/index.htm

Upgrading Modulation etc.

http://www.hardtimez99.com/CB%20RADIO%20SECRET/qr.html

CB Radio Index

http://support.radioshack.com/support_electronics/15777.htm

CB Radio Microphones

http://www.premiere-electronics.net/store/cbradiomic.html

http://www.premiere-electronics.net/store/astaticmicrophones.html

http://www.premiere-electronics.net/store/basemicrophones.html

http://www.premiere-electronics.net/store/roadkingmic.html

The Source By Circuit City in Canada still sells some CB accessories

http://www.thesource.ca/estore/SearchResults.aspx?language=en-CA&keywords=CB&pagenum=0

US Radio Shack CB Radio Accessories

http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=cb&origkw=CB&sr=1

Blackberry Resources Info

http://www.blackberry.com/eng/newsroom/success

Great info on Blackberry

VINYL RECORDS

Vinyl records are able to capture the purest quality of recorded music in true form. This is possible because the initial recording is captured on an analog source (usually tape) for the ultimate in High Fidelity sound, it is then pressed onto virgin vinyl. Analog recordings capture the bottom end (or bass) while adding sweetness to the high end (or treble) better than any digital recording ever could. Analog systems are still commonly used before they are digitally transferred to CD. This means that the sound then is altered in the transfer process when CD's are produced. The word fidelity means accuracy and faithfulness. High Fidelity sound is faithful to the original sound made by the artist, capturing maximum accuracy of what was intended for the listener to hear. Vinyl records capture those sounds for the ultimate High Fidelity listening experience!

180/200 GRAM Vinyl LP

These vinyl records are produced with 180 or 200 grams of high definition premium grade virgin vinyl. This is a higher quality audiophile pressing than the typical vinyl record of 100-120 grams. These limited edition LP's are manufactured with the hi-fi enthusiast in mind. A 180 or 200 gram LP is sometimes also referred to as an audiophile pressing, there is a higher bass response and an even warmer High Fidelity sound. 180 or 200 grams LP's are typically manufactured in limited amounts and are considered collectables, commanding a higher price.

VINYL REISSUES

Typically, a vinyl reissue is a repressing of an original LP, usually extracted from the recording's master-tapes. In some cases, reissues are re-mastered to lower surface noise and improve overall sonics. Reissues help preserve the music of an original recording, especially when original LPs become unavailable or can no longer be found. Reissues can be pressed on a variety of thickness from 150 gram to 200 gram and offer a great opportunity for records collectors to own many classic recordings.

A place to get your GSM USB modem unlocked for a great price.

www.dc-unlocker.com

Windows 7 - Things you need to know...BEFORE upgrading...

http://www.retrevo.com/my/5875/article/10262175?cmpid=Email

Microsoft Direct Access - Very cool new technology

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/dd420463.aspx

LogMeIn Ignition

Log me in ignition for iPhone

https://secure.logmein.com/products/ignition/iphone/

View Video

https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/iphone/?WT.mc_id=5816

Cool Sony Portable Walkmans.

E.g. My Sony WM-EX1HG 15th anniversary cassette player

http://www.hiroai.com/cpjswalkman.htm

Technics SL-1000 MKII - Wow What a turntable

http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/sp10page.html

Cool vintage Sony Stuff...

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/radio-piffret/Materiels_SONY.htm

This is a very cool site

HEAD-FI (headphone hi-fi discussions etc.)

http://www.head-fi.org/

NEXT - THE DEAL OF THE DAY !!!!

Today’s update, The Quest for Quality Sound using Portable Gear,

Oh ya, it’s ALL about the sound.

So the latest part of my quest is testing portable CD players. There is a cult of people out there going goo goo gaa gaa for these 15 to 20 year old little magic wonders. So I thought hey, for $1.99 to $7.99 a player at value village etc, I can try to get in on this too. And I thought Vintage Audio meant that we are only talking home stereo equipment. Time to update my thinking, portable gear is on the list too. :-). Check out the HEAD-FI website listed above. VERY COOL stuff.

Wow, what a journey. The world of portable CD players is a really magic place.

Have a read of this article….

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f16/personal-cd-players-daps-through-ages-review-updated-04-17-2006-a-36819/

FROM THIS ARTICLE...

My favourite Discman of this collection without doubt is the Philips AZ6832, its ability to be smooth one moment, and aggressive the next is highly impressive, and more akin to a full sized player ~ although I will admit that this might not be to everyone’s taste.

Wow, Lucky me, I won the used CD player lottery and picked up a Magnavox / Philips AZ6832 for $1.99 this afternoon (Nov 9, 2009) at Value Village on King George HWY in Surrey B.C. YOU HAVE TO HEAR TH IS PLAYER... It's truly amazing. Dual 1 bit DAC’s and rich luscious smooth, not the clinical sound of many other players. Steely Dan has never sounded better. This unit may not look that great but boy do I get it now about what early 90's portable CD players can do… Truly AMAZING SOUND on MY SENHEISER PX100 Headphones. You can’t help but tap your foot… LOL Yuppers digital music can sound pretty darn good. (A Good MFSL LP still sounds better but what are going to do if you want to drive somewhere, better break out the portable CD player... )

So what have I learned, well it’s all about those little magic chips called DAC’s and their headphone amps. (Digital to Analogue Converters)

Who cares that the batteries only last 3 hours. The sound quality is truly AMAZING.... Maybe that's why the batteries only last a few hours. Turn up the bias on the transistors and run those internal op amps a little warmer...to get better sound.

While it says Magnavox it's really a Philips. (I guess it's all about brands LOL)

It still says AZ6832 not sure what the /17 is all about though...

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f16/personal-cd-players-daps-through-ages-review-updated-04-17-2006-a-36819/

From the Above Listed Article...

Epilogue

My favorite Discman of this collection without doubt is the Philips AZ6832, its ability to be smooth one moment, and aggressive the next is highly impressive, and more akin to a full sized player ~ although I will admit that this might not be to everyone’s taste. If you prefer things slightly smoother, then there is the D311, it has a very natural sound that seems to compliment the Eggos perfectly, ‘hand and glove’ is a phrase that springs to mind right now… The biggest disappointment of all was the D-EJ1000, for a top of the range player, it is very lacking in the audio department, even if it is by far and away the most portable unit.

Check out the HIFIMAN...

REAL Portable HIFI...

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f87/updated-hifiman-hm-801-portable-music-player-preorder-424053/

Cool Tube Headphone Amps etc.

http://www.head-direct.com/

http://head-direct.com/products.php?m=16#

Some cool Minidisc links (current gear) from Nigel in Australia

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-15696-Three+New+Panasonic+D-Dock+Compact+Hi-Fi.html

http://hifi-ring.com/2008/03/20/panasonic_d-dock_sc-pm670sd_sc-pm870sd.html

http://hifi-ring.com/2007/12/10/kenwood_new_clk-7i-s_clk-5i-s_w_slim_stereo_systems.html

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17189-Onkyo%E2%80%99s+latest+compact+Hi-Fi%2C+the+FR-N9FX.html

http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/12/rip_record_and.html

http://hifi-ring.com/2008/06/11/victor_jvc_ux-gm77_micro_component_system.html

http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/audio_w/home/ux-gm77/index.html

Get your Rio Karma Repaired here...

(Yes I have one of these in my collection)

http://firehouse7777.weebly.com/

Apple’s App Store Hits Six Digits; How Many Apps Do You Need?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/appstore/

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking at a press conference in Tokyo earlier this month.

How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/19/microsoft.windows.mobile/index.html

backup pal

Backup Pal Backs Up Cellphone Numbers

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/backup-pal-backs-up-cellphone-numbers/

http://www.solutions.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=15111

iTablet Gains OLED Display, Delayed Until End of 2010

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/itablet-gains-oled-display-delayed-until-end-of-2010/

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091118PB201.html

Now 19, 2009

My take on this. Apple didn't do so well in the past with the Apple Newton. This however will be a success as I belive we will all be reading content from a device like this in the future. Why well because it makes sense. Think itunes store but now think text instead of music. It's time to move on to a new format for books and I am convinced Apple has decided to be a leader in changing the way we read books, just like they changed the way we deal with music. Stay tuned should be interesting to watch.

Motorola Achieved Cable Box Etc Products

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/support/default.asp?supportSection=HomeEntertainment

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/support/default.asp?supportSection=blank

Sony PS-F5 Portable Turntable

http://ps-f5.com/about-the-sony-ps-f5-portable-turntable

Sony Products over the years. Cool stuff...

Sony Product History...

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/index.html

50's

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1950.html

60's

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1960.html

70's

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1970.html

80's

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1980.html

90's

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/1990.html

2000

http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/2000.html

XRCD

Technology to make CD's sound better.

http://www.elusivedisc.com/xrcdinfo.asp

An interesting story about cassettes.

I am sold. No compression and the smooth sound of Analogue..

http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/frary/sony_wm_ex7_review.htm

Impulse Smartwatch for Blackberry

Email, BBMs, and Incoming Calls, All on Your Wrist

Very cool...

http://gearpatrol.com/blog/2009/10/26/impulse-smartwatch-for-blackberry/

Sony Walkman Japanese Site

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~an4t-tkns/taro/walkman/walkman.htm

Use Google Translate to view

1979-1981

1981-1983 1981-1983

1985-1987 1985-1987

1989-1991 1989-1991

1991-1993 1991-1993

1993-1995 1993-1995

1995-1997 1995-1997

1997-1999 1997-1999

1999-2003 1999-2003

2003-2005 2003-2005

Sony Parts In Canada

Sony DD DC2 DDII DD2 Part that makes ticking sound problem

https://servicesplus.us.sony.biz/PartsPlusResults.aspx?stype=parts

SONY DD ticking sound problem part number is X-3578-142-0.

I guess this gear commonly gets a crack in it. Stay tuned for detail s on how I fixed this problem. Might surprise you what I have come up with....

When the centre gear is removed the split can be seen clearly., picture by Tim Jarman

Walkman Central info on the Walkman DD problem

http://www.walkmancentral.com/faq

Additional Sony Walkman parts

Some great sites for walkman info and forums

http://www.head-fi.org/

http://stereo2go.com/eve

http://www.walkmancentral.com/

Sony History Information - TPS-L2 etc.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/199907/99-059/

http://www.sony.jp/mail/mysony/feature/20090702/

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sony.jp%2Fmail%2Fmysony%2Ffeature%2F20090702%2F

Music's lost decade: Sales cut in half

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http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music_industry/index.htm?hpt=T2

America's BIGGEST rip-offs.

It's not how much money you make it's how much you keep.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs/index.html

RIM's smart-phone advantage

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/rims-smart-phone-advantage/article1453899/

DAVE Wireless to launch as Mobilicity

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/dave-wireless-to-launch-as-mobilicity/article1453342/

Gramophone Archive

http://www.gramophone.net/Page/View/292/Elisabeth%20S%C3%B6derstr%C3%B6m%20%281927-2009%29%20remembered

OLD Sony WM-10 Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8FDPtN_8M&NR=1

Sony WM-10 in a cassette case commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84eoM7n7Ws

Sony Web site History of Walkman's

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-e.html

History of Sony 101

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/history.html

Vintage Walkman Database

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/walkman-db.html

IPHONE for Business

http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/

3D BLU-RAY INFO - PLAYERS & PS3, HDMI 1.4

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10450795-1.html?tag=nl.e702

http://www.retrevo.com/my/5875/article/19681214?cmpid=Email

HDMI 1.4 INFO SPECS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Hammertone Image

Cool Audio Place in Kelowna BC

http://hammertoneaudio.com/

SONY WALKMAN CASSETTE BELT REPLACEMENT INFORMATION...

Replacement BELT etc for cassette Decks

http://www.studiosoundelectronics.com/cassette.htm

How to measure Belt Size for your Cassette Deck

http://www.studiosoundelectronics.com/beltmeas.htm

More on determining the thickness of square belts:

Our SBX series of belts (.090") are just a bit thicker than a U.S. Half Dollar (.085")
Our SBL series of belts (.075"-.079") are the thickness of a U.S. Nickel (.077")
Our SBM series of belts (.065") are the thickness of a U.S. Quarter (.066")
Our SBS series of belts (.046") are just a bit thinner than the thickness of a U.S. Dime (.051")
Our SBO series of belts (.039") are just a bit thicker than the thickness of a credit card (.033")