AudioBanter

What CDP function do you want?(CDP0008)

woter — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:46:15 GMT

Different styles meet different needs, There are plenty of different
CDP vehicle types out there, so it only makes sense that you should have a variety of in-car video and navigation systems from which to choose. You can opt for a simple player with a built-in screen or a full rolling home theatre set-up, complete with multiple screens, full surround sound, TV, gaming and much more. WhatCDP function would you like? CDP0008,maybe your good choice.

Who Killed Detroit?

BretLudwig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:36:53 GMT

((Buchanan has a point re: Sony. I used to drive a truck from St. Louis to
Quincy, Illinois three nights a week. Quincy had a Motorola plant that
employed nearly ten per cent of the town's working population. The plant
made a profit, but not the 20+% ROI after all costs were "factored in"
(i.e. Hollywood Accounting) Mother M was convinced it should. They sold it
to Matsu****a as soon as the last of the old guard of Paul Galvin / Bill
Lear people on the board died. Matsu****a closed it down in six months.))

Who Killed Detroit?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

>>"Who killed the U.S. auto industry?

To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the
demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs
no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and Koreans
prepared and built for the future.

I dissent. What killed Detroit was Washington, the government of the
United States, politicians, journalists and muckrakers who have long
harbored a deep animus against the manufacturing class that ran the
smokestack industries that won World War II.

As far back as the 1950s, an intellectual elite that produces mostly
methane had its knives out for the auto industry of which Ike's treasury
secretary, ex-GM chief Charles Wilson, had boasted, "What's good for
America is good for General Motors, and vice versa."

"Engine Charlie" was relentlessly mocked, even in Al Capp's L'il Abner
cartoon strip, where a bloviating "General Bullmoose" had as his motto,
"What's good for Bullmoose is good for America!!"

How did Big Government do in the U.S. auto industry?

Washington imposed a minimum wage higher than the average wage in
war-devastated Germany and Japan. The Feds ordered that U.S. plants be
made the healthiest and safest worksites in the world, creating OSHA to
see to it. It enacted civil rights laws to ensure the labor force
reflected our diversity. Environmental laws came next, to ensure U.S.
factories became the most pollution-free on earth.

It then clamped fuel efficiency standards on the entire U.S. car fleet.

Next, Washington imposed a corporate tax rate of 35 percent, raking off
another 15 percent of autoworkers' wages in Social Security payroll taxes

State governments imposed income and sales taxes, and local governments
property taxes to subsidize services and schools.

The United Auto Workers struck repeatedly to win the highest wages and
most generous benefits on earth—vacations, holidays, work breaks, health
care, pensions—for workers and their families, and retirees.

Now there is nothing wrong with making U.S. plants the cleanest and safest
on earth or having U.S. autoworkers the highest-paid wage earners.

That is the dream, what we all wanted for America.

And under the 14th Amendment, GM, Ford and Chrysler had to obey the same
U.S. laws and pay at the same tax rates. Outside the United States,
however, there was and is no equality of standards or taxes.

Thus when America was thrust into the Global Economy, GM and Ford had to
compete with cars made overseas in factories in postwar Japan and Germany,
then Korea, where health and safety standards were much lower, wages were a
fraction of those paid U.S. workers, and taxes were and are often forgiven
on exports to the United States.

All three nations built "export-driven" economies.

The Beetle and early Japanese imports were made in factories where wages
were far beneath U.S. wages and working conditions would have gotten U.S.
auto executives sent to prison.

The competition was manifestly unfair, like forcing Secretariat to carry
100 pounds in his saddlebags in the Derby.

Japan, China and South Korea do not believe in free trade as we understand
it. To us, they are our "trading partners." To them, the relationship is
not like that of Evans & Novak or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is
not even like the Redskins and Cowboys. For the Cowboys only want to
defeat the Redskins. They do not want to put their franchise out of
business and end the competition—as the Japanese did to our TV industry
by dumping Sonys here until they killed it.

While we think the Global Economy is about what is best for the consumer,
they think about what is best for the nation.

Like Alexander Hamilton, they understand that manufacturing is the key to
national power. And they manipulate currencies, grant tax rebates to their
exporters and thieve our technology to win. Last year, as trade expert Bill
Hawkins writes, South Korea exported 700,000 cars to us, while importing
5,000 cars from us.[To rebuild the auto industry, November 19, 2008]

That's Asia's idea of free trade.

How has this Global Economy profited or prospered America?

In the 1950s, we made all our own toys, clothes, shoes, bikes, furniture,
motorcycles, cars, cameras, telephones, TVs, etc. You name it. We made
it.

Are we better off now that these things are made by foreigners? Are we
better off now that we have ceased to be self-sufficient? Are we better
off now that the real wages of our workers and median income of our
families no longer grow as they once did? Are we better off now that
manufacturing, for the first time in U.S. history, employs fewer workers
than government?

We no longer build commercial ships. We have but one airplane company, and
it outsources. China produces our computers. And if GM goes Chapter 11,
America will soon be out of the auto business.

Our politicians and pundits may not understand what is going on.
Historians will have no problem explaining the decline and fall of the
Americans."<<

http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/081120_detroit.htm

--
Message posted using http://www.talkaboutaudio.com/group/rec.audio.opinion/
More information at http://www.talkaboutaudio.com/faq.html

Israel’s Schwartze Problem—And Ours

BretLudwig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:30:07 GMT

Israel’s Schwartze Problem—And Ours

By Takuan Seiyo

[Previously by Takuan Seiyo: The Case Of The “Disappeared” Subprime
Minority Borrower]

>>"Israel's mob wars are so lethal that the U.S. State Department has
issued travel advisories warning Americans of the danger from "bombs,
grenades, anti- tank missiles, and small-arms fire" from mobsters fighting
each with no regard for collateral damage.

On November 17, 2008, The Jerusalem Post announced Mobster Yaakov Alperon
assassinated [By Abe Selig].The godfather of the Alperon mob family had
just been dispatched to the next world with the aid of a bomb that
exploded in his car on a crowded Tel Aviv intersection.

The story referred to the rival Abutbul and Abergil families, with whom
the Alperons battled over a lucrative bottle-recycling racket. Several
visits to Israel and Morocco, and past residence in France, caused me to
notice that all these crime families bear Maghrebian-Jewish names, i.e.
these are dark-skinned Jews mostly from Morocco, who have as much in
common with Wittgenstein, Mahler and Bronfman as I have with Queen
Latifah.

Well, maybe it’s only five degrees of separation instead of six. Notice
these Ab and Al prefixes.

A primer of Israeli crime [By Amir Zohar, Haaretz, December 1,
2006]informs us that the fourth Maghrebian crime family is the
Ohaninas—"Rafi and Moshe Ohanina, from Kfar Sava, who want to avenge the
murder of their brother, Hananya" (NB: by the just-deceased Yaakov
Alperon). The fifth mob family of Levantine origin is that of Riko
Shirazi, a notorious extortion and money laundering racketeer. Though no
biographical information about Mr. Shirazi is available, the surname
originates somewhere in the crescent between Iran and Morocco.

From Arabian Jews to Arabs. The sixth Israeli mob family is the Jarushis,
who, legend has it, "fired the first LAW missile in the underworld." They
are described as the "No. 1 police target in the Arab sector." The rest of
the Arab crime families mentioned are the Karaja hamula (clan), the Abu
Ziads, the Mugrabis, the al-Issawi, Nazia and Sheikh Malik Khariri, the
Abdel Kader family from Taibeh, and the Khamed and Awari families from
Nazareth.

The only classy outfit on the Israeli mob scene seems to be the Azazma
Bedouin tribe, which has "unchallenged control of the desert," is
"meticulous about upholding agreements and faithful to everyone who pays
good money and on time," and "Israeli Jews do not mess with them."

The Ashkenazim (European Jews) seem to have a single boutique firm in the
Israeli underworld. Predictably, it’s not based on family or tribal
ties. The godfather, Ze'ev Rosenstein, was until recently tooling about in
an armored Mercedes 320 and was a regular staple in the Israeli society
columns. Facing extradition to the US on drug trafficking charges,
Rosenstein entrusted Amir Mulner (note Ashkenazi, i.e. European, surname)
with the management of the business during his "absence." Mulner is
described as No. 1 "engineer" and "up-and-coming star" of the Israeli
underworld.

Incidentally, on Jan. 2, 2008, an arbitration "summit" in the lobby of the
luxury Daniel hotel turned violent, as "knives and guns were drawn" and
Yaakov Alperon stabbed Amir Mulner in the neck. After that, Alperon went
into hiding and, as per this week’s news, has now disappeared for good
within the twisted shards of his car.

And so it goes —ethny against ethny, the East and the West that cannot
meet even when facing a common enemy. Brown-skin people with a full sigma
below the mean IQ of white-skin people and an "I and My Brother Against My
Cousin" mentality. Middleasterners versus Europeans; tribalism and
physicality versus a civic culture of respect for law, order and
rationality.

One additional aspect of the mob scene in Israel is the dreaded Russian
Mafiya, with roots among the Russian Jewish immigrants in Brighton Beach,
but of worldwide power and presence. The most notorious member is
Ukrainian-born Semion Mogilevich, but others like Monya Elson and Ludwig
"Tarzan" Fainberg are no slouches either. Most of these international
gangsters hold American, Russian and Israeli citizenships, and have much
impact in Israel, though their base is not there.

These are, by definition Ashkenazim, and many of considerable intellect
and education. But having grown up in the Soviet system, they have deviant
souls and predatory hearts, with the tribal unity of a Hun raider party set
loose in the fairyland of the West with an insatiable craving for plunder.

A small country does not offer a large enough arena for the talents of an
ambitious man. And so we find that the world trade in the drug Ecstasy is
a specialty of Israeli criminals, who control, among others, 75 percent of
the Ecstasy market in the U.S.

But these are not mere Israelis, as closer scrutiny reveals.

There is Jacob Orgad, an Israeli-Moroccan immigrant in Los Angeles who
started out as an electronics salesman, moved on to become Heidi Fleiss’
enforcer, and from that climbed to became America’s King of Ecstasy,
before ending up in Federal prison, acting as a rabbi.

Orgad’s counterpart on the East Coast, particularly in Florida and New
York, was another Israeli of Moroccan origin, Oded Tuito. Tuito, who had
the distinction of being one of eight Designated Foreign Narcotics
Kingpins, died in June 2008 of a heart attack while in the custody of the
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Among the various criminals linked to the great Orgad and Tuito mobs there
was the occasional goyische or Ashkenazi name like Kevin McLoughlin or
Melissa Schwartz. But the prevalence of Israelis of North African origin
is startling . A casual Internet search will yield multiple quotes of this
sort:

* "Expected to go to jury this week in L.A. Federal Court is the case
of Gilad Gadasi, 26, of Woodland Hills, who was arrested May 6 and charged
with conspiracy to distribute more than 118,000 Ecstasy tablets. And last
week, police in New York arrested two Israelis, David Roash, 28, and
Israel Ashenazi [sic], 25, for possession of 450 pounds of E, more than a
million tablets packed into eight duffel bags and a suitcase. "[How Cookie
Crumbled, By Sheldon Teitelbaum, The Jewish Journal, August 2, 2001]

* "The biggest fish named in the indictment is Gabriel Ben Harosh, the
reputed 39-year-old jet-setting No. 2 man in the Jerusalem Network.

"Ben Harosh… was taken into custody in Toronto and is awaiting
extradition. Though investigators describe Ben Harosh in sworn affidavits
as a "high-ranking member of an Israeli organized crime syndicate," [Ben
Harosh’s lawyer] Chesnoff says his Moroccan-born client is a legitimate
businessman." [Vegas has new crime element: Israeli mob, by Jeff German,
Las Vegas Sun, April 30, 2004]

Additional drug mobster Israelis with Maghrebian-Jewish names that a brief
Internet search will yield are Sasson Barashy and Alex Maimon, Yaniv Yona,
Ereza Abutbul, and David Bitton.

A certain Semitic catholicity in the American and worldwide narcotic pills
trade is provided by a few Ashkenazi Israelis or Arabs. Among the former is
Ilan Zarger, the head of the notorious Brooklyn Terror Squad, who famously
not only acted as supplier of Ecstasy to the Italian mob hit-man Sammy
"The Bull" Gravano but was caught on tape threatening to "whack" Gravano
over a price dispute.. Among the latter are a Syrian, Mounir Deiri, and
John and Tamer Ibrahim, two notorious LA drug kingpins, who are
Egyptian-born Coptic Christians.

At least since 1965, U.S. Immigration Law has been spectacularly naïve
and dysfunctional with respect to attracting and filtering the better
demographic segment from the large pool of potential immigrants to
America, whether legal or illegal. Actually, the American Establishment no
longer believes that a phrase like "better demographic segment" ought to be
uttered in polite society. But, to return to the case of Israel, there are
qualitative demographic changes in the source populations there as well,
and they are controversial there too.

During my first visit to Israel, in the early 60s, the prestige areas of
the city were adorned with café’s that would not have been out of place
in Vienna. That went for the lingua franca—primarily high Polish and
German with a smattering of native-born Hebrew—and the quality of the
pastries. When the young Placido Domingo sought to perfect his craft in
the early 60s, he did so for three years with Hebrew National Opera. When
the young wunderkind Zubin Mehta looked to make his mark in the world of
classical music in the late 60s, it’s with the Israel Philharmonic he
did it.

But now, Ashkenazim—the founding ethny of Israel—are 37% of the
population. By 2000, my last visit there, the cafés had been replaced by
shwarma joints and fast food franchises. The role of classical music had
diminished greatly, as the old Ashkenazim die out and their children have
one fourth the number of children of the Arab Jews and one fifth that of
the super-orthodox Jews and the Arabs.

In additional to the generational divide and the Idiocracy factor,
Israelis of non-European extraction do not appreciate classical music and
protest its support by the Ashkenazi establishment. And Israel has its own
Affirmative Action, through which the Arab-origin Jews of a more primitive
cultural cast and fewer educational attainments have been elevated to
positions of unearned power. Through their influence, the country drifts
further into the Middle-Eastern cultural sphere.

In the old days, Israeli Ashkenazim used to refer to their co-citizens of
Arab-Jewish origins as schwartze, which is the same German/Yiddish word
for “black” that the older Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants in New York
used in reference to American blacks. It stood in both places as a code
word for lower cultural attainment and unseemly behavior. Now the term is
gone there, as it is here, and anyone who uses it is likely subjected to
public censure.

But when words and perceptions that discriminate between qualities are
gone, quality is gone.

Israel no longer feels like an outpost of Old Europe in the Middle East.
Instead, it’s more like a cross between a Lebanese shopping center and a
Moscow disco.

But then, Europe no longer feels like an outpost of Old Europe either. Sic
transit gloria mundi."<<

Takuan Seiyo [Email him] is a multiethnic and multilingual Euro-American
immigrant, writer and former international media executive. A happy and
highly contributive Californian for decades, TS left as a demographic,
political and fiscal refugee. He is now content to live in Japan, a
country that does not actively pursue its own extinction, where he is an
oft-fingerprinted and respectfully discriminated-against minority.

http://www.vdare.com/seiyo/081120_israel.htm

--
Message posted using http://www.talkaboutaudio.com/group/rec.audio.opinion/
More information at http://www.talkaboutaudio.com/faq.html

What's a good dvd software that i can download for free?

Jony347 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:30:07 GMT

I have a toshiba lapop and all the dvd players that it came with suck! the quality is horrible and the frame size is small and the bigger i set it, the worse the quality gets. i want to download a new dvd player software that's good, is free, and doesn't have any viruses. thanks to all who anwsered.

Behringer cracks me up

vdubreeze@verizon.net — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:40:27 GMT

And this is serious, kind of. They have a speaker that looks like
this:

http://www.8thstreet.com/Product.asp...ory=Monitoring

Now, I've had these in my study for 10 years:

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com...ors?sku=600632

Now, purely on a visual level, wasn't it more effort to accomplish
that then to not?

I mean, years after all the court cases they had about the innards of
their gear, and this is what they keep putting out?

Why? What's the point?

Does Arny know when he's beat?

Boon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:46:56 GMT

Hey, Arny! I noticed you bowed out of the religious discussion when I
posted this:

"Here's a better example of one of the inconsistencies of the Bible.
I'm sure Arny will find the right version to explain this
discrepancy. I've asked clergymen to explain this, and they've never
failed to supply a totally ludicrous, bull**** answer:

Adam and Eve were the first two people on the Earth. They had two
children named Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel. God banishes Cain
from the Garden of Eden and tells him he has to walk the earth, just
like Caine in "Kung Fu." Cain complains that everyone who sees him
will want to kill him, so God puts a mark on him to protect him.

The question is...who is "everyone"? At this point, there are only
three people on the face of the earth. Who are all these indigenous
people Cain might encounter?

The stock answer is often something like "Many theologians believe
that after the Garden of Eden, God started placing people all over
the
earth." Unfortunately, the Bible does not state this. Seems like
kind of an important detail to forget.

Other clergymen have actually said, "You need to have faith, and God
has provided these mysteries to test it." WTF? Is that like the
whole dinosaur thing? Stupid people will go a long way to avoid
admitting they were wrong. In that respect, Arny is a good Christian."

You don't have an answer? Or are you too busy responding to threads
that were abandoned weeks ago?

Boon

What spec tells how "hot" a mic is?

HiC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:57:06 GMT

I.e. - how loud a mic is at a given input level of the preamp.

ADAT io - solutions ?

Sigurd Stenersen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:23:37 GMT

Given studio equipment that has two ADAT input ports and two ADAT output
ports - what are the options for connecting these ports to a PC ?

I just want Sonar 7/8 to be able to do audio i/o, no fancy features are
needed but any solution is better than none...

Sigurd

NAD CD Player remote

Michael L Kankiewicz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:00 GMT

Hi all. My NAD 5340 CD player died. I see several NAD players on ebay,
but most are missing the remote. Does anyone know if the remote from my
5340 will work with other NAD models? Thanks.

LP inferior?

Sonnova — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:50:17 GMT

The current wisdom, and a wisdom that I mostly agree with, says that vinyl is
vastly inferior to digital as a music media. There are exceptions, of course,
but generally speaking this would seem to be true.

In the latest (December, 2008) issue of Stereophile, there is a story about a
German physicist and integrated circuit designer turned "Tonmeister" named
Ralf Koschnike who decided to start a record company. He records at 24-bit,
192KHz sampling rate using Alesis A to D converters then he down converts
those files to 16/44.1 for Redbook CD release. He also makes LPs from his
masters using the latest incarnation of the Direct Metal Master (DMM)
technique. After experimenting with both DVD-A and SACD, he finds that his
vinyl LPs are closer to his 24/192 masters than are either of these super CD
formats and of course, much better than regular CD. To prove his point, he
shows a number of photographs of the spectral analysis of a short tutti
passage from the 24/192 master of Shostakovich's 15th Symphony. Also shown
are spectral analysis pictures of the same passage on LP and on CD. Except
for some high-frequency noise in the LP spectral analysis photos, the LP
looks almost identical to the master recording. The CD shows everything above
22KHz as GONE, just a big black space taking up 3/4 of the spectral
photograph. This shows that the LP faithfully preserves the HF content of the
master, while the CD does not.

Koschnike says that he is confident that its the HF cutoff that makes CD
sound less natural than hi-rez digital or LP, when the latter is properly
executed. He goes on to say that he thinks that his LPs are more than
competitive with those from vinyl's golden age.

While I DOUBT seriously that what's going-on in the ultrasonic stratosphere
can have any affect on what goes on in the range of human hearing (and that
assumes ideal human hearing (20-20Khz) which is a state that goes away
quickly as youth fades.), it is interesting to see just how much of the
recorded spectrum that the CD plot shows thrown away (and I wonder how much
of the LP spectrum analysis will be left after a few plays - even on top
flight playback gear). I urge everyone interested to pick-up the December
issue of Stereophile the next time that you are at your local magazine
emporium and turn to pages 16 and 18 and take a look at the spectral analysis
pictures. Very interesting.

TLM 103 D acoustic guitar track clip is up

Ty Ford — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:34:47 GMT

Hi,

http://idisk.mac.com/tyreeford-Publi...LM103DD28S.wav

It's a 21MB file I recorded today. The Neumann RCS software has the 80 Hz
high-pass filter in, but nothing else. No effects, no EQ, no nothin'.

Note: The TLM 103D is not as big on top or bottom as the original TLM 103.

Regards,

Ty Ford

--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA

Stereo and bass signal into bass speaker cabinets

steverossiter@sbcglobal.net — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:43:26 GMT

Hi,

I would like to find a way to play both my stereo and bass guitar
through a pair two 4x10" bass guitar speaker cabinets. Since the
cabinets have two sets of input jacks (1/4" and Speakon) I was
wondering if I am able to feed the bass signal coming from a mono bass
amp (700W @ 8 ohms) to each of the two cabs and use the remaining 1/4"
jacks to receive from the stereo (60W per channel @ 8 ohms). Even
without an electronics background this does not sound good (60W up
against 700W or impedance issues for the amps or the cross-wiring of
signals from separate sources meeting at the speaker input jacks).

The other solution I can see is to sum first the left and right
signals of the stereo, reduce its strength and further mix this with
the bass signal from the guitar and then into the input jack on the
front of the bass amp. It would be nice to keep the stereo as stereo
but since the bass amp is mono this could not be avoided under this
scenario.

Thanks for the help, Steve.

u87 Ai vs "A i"

samiswilf@gmail.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:02:57 GMT

I've seen u87's with "Ai" written on them and then others with
"A i" written on them with a long space between the A and i. any
difference? which one was manufactured first?

Need CLIPS for pairs of audio faders: Scott, Mike, others?

blackburst@aol.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:41:39 GMT

Can any of our audio gurus point me to a specialized piece of audio
"equipment," either pre-made or some obvious home-made solution?

In my PEG Access TV studio, most of the inputs to our audio mixer are
stereo, and they end up on two separate faders, panned L-R. I have
seen mixers with clips that make the two faders move as one. Any idea
where I could get some? (A primitive device which clips onto or is
screwed over a pair of faders).

I can anticipate the obvious question - what brand-model of mixer. I
don't know! We're currently using a 32-in Mackie and a similar
Behringer, but I plan to buy a new mixer, brand undetermined.

(I did a post here a few weeks ago about what mixer to get for a TV
studio with many stereo inputs. None of the research I've done has
turned up a suitable (and affordable) "broadcast board" (with many
stereo inputs), so I'll probably be using a monster recording/live
board.)

Many of our users are amateurs, and it is hard to get them to use
pairs of faders. I am hoping a clip on each pair would make it more
obvious, even unavoidable.

remote controlled audio mixer/equalizer project

msg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:47:51 GMT

Greetings,

I would appreciate some suggestions for implementing a stand-alone
audio mixer/equalizer box using commodity components, in the shortest
development time at the least possible cost. I am tending to
want to to use four PCI sound cards in an older PIII 1u rackmount
cpu to create a four audio bus/eight inputs mixer, with
four independent equalizer channels. It should be controllable
using an arbitrary protocol over RS232 or ethernet, not require a
resident GUI, nor local mass storage except perhaps flash for program
loading, and won't do any local capture, only audio I/O at 44.1 or
48kHz sampling rate to and from unbalanced line level connections.

Some preliminary thoughts are to use a version of *IX as the o/s
and layer ALSA and LADSPA with plugins on it, connected with the
'jack' framework, and for testing just control it through remote
shell command scripts until a complete control program is written.
Since I'm using low-end hardware, I had dismissed using 'Pulseaudio'
as a framework (unless convinced otherwise).

Should I be considering some other o/s or RTOS?

Has this been done as an opensource or freeware project (I don't
find much on the 'net)?

Replies are much appreciated.

Michael