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Best magazines?
What magazines does everyone read? I'm a fan of Performance Auto and
Sound (www.pasmag.com), myself. That magazine is always 200 pages long, usually with really good articles that are informative. |
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Best magazines?
Car Audio and Electronics is the best, IMHO.
I also read Stereophile and Home Theater. MOSFET "Pious Audio" wrote in message oups.com... What magazines does everyone read? I'm a fan of Performance Auto and Sound (www.pasmag.com), myself. That magazine is always 200 pages long, usually with really good articles that are informative. |
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I was checking out Stereophile at Borders yesterday, it did look good.
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"Pious Audio" wrote in message oups.com... I was checking out Stereophile at Borders yesterday, it did look good. It can be a LITTLE snooty sometimes, and you kind of have to ignore that (I don't own a single-ended triode tube amp so that makes me scum in Stereophile's view....). But it's a great magazine as it really delves deep into a product's attributes, both positive and negative. I love learning about the really cutting edge, avant garde, high-end stuff, in other words, the stuff I can't afford. It's a great magazine for that kind of gear. MOSFET |
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MOSFET wrote:
Car Audio and Electronics is the best, IMHO. I also read Stereophile and Home Theater. MOSFET "Pious Audio" wrote in message oups.com... What magazines does everyone read? I'm a fan of Performance Auto and Sound (www.pasmag.com), myself. That magazine is always 200 pages long, usually with really good articles that are informative. I've enjoyed CA&E for... oh, 16 or 17 years now. Always been a good mag. The most important criteria, of course, is how many ads they have featuring bikini-clad models posing with amps and subwoofers... --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0620-0, 05/15/2006 Tested on: 5/16/2006 10:19:10 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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I think it was Stereophile, many many years ago, that tested what was then
a top-of-the-line Mark Levinson monoblock amp... they were greatly impressed with its design ability to operate as almost a pure current source (ie. able to drive an almost dead-short), and tested this capability by using its output to - get this - WELD STEEL. Yup. One side of the output, as I recall, was hooked to the metal... the other side to the welding-rod holder... a 1kHz squarewave was fed to the input... and they actually welded two pieces of steel together. That's SOOOO cool. I love that kind of thing. Imagine that, a dead-short and yet the current KEEPS coming!!! Talk about LOW IMPEDENCE CAPABILITY, OR MORE PRECISELY, NO IMPEDENCE CAPABILITY! A similar trick was done some years ago (well, kind of similar) with a PPI amp (I think it was PPI). At an on-site training meeting, a PPI factory rep. played a 60 Hz test-tone through a PPI amp and connected the positive and negative speaker wire to the power cord of a circular saw. Sure enough, it was able to cut through a thick piece of plywood (when the volume was turned WAY up, of course). It impressed the hell out of me, though I'm sure your welding example is MUCH MORE impressive as that represents what should be a dead-short. MOSFET --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0620-0, 05/15/2006 Tested on: 5/16/2006 10:22:00 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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MOSFET wrote:
I think it was Stereophile, many many years ago, that tested what was then a top-of-the-line Mark Levinson monoblock amp... they were greatly impressed with its design ability to operate as almost a pure current source (ie. able to drive an almost dead-short), and tested this capability by using its output to - get this - WELD STEEL. Yup. One side of the output, as I recall, was hooked to the metal... the other side to the welding-rod holder... a 1kHz squarewave was fed to the input... and they actually welded two pieces of steel together. That's SOOOO cool. I love that kind of thing. Imagine that, a dead-short and yet the current KEEPS coming!!! Talk about LOW IMPEDENCE CAPABILITY, OR MORE PRECISELY, NO IMPEDENCE CAPABILITY! A similar trick was done some years ago (well, kind of similar) with a PPI amp (I think it was PPI). At an on-site training meeting, a PPI factory rep. played a 60 Hz test-tone through a PPI amp and connected the positive and negative speaker wire to the power cord of a circular saw. Sure enough, it was able to cut through a thick piece of plywood (when the volume was turned WAY up, of course). It impressed the hell out of me, though I'm sure your welding example is MUCH MORE impressive as that represents what should be a dead-short. It's a cool trick. In the real world, most people wouldn't have much use for that capability. It WOULD be the ideal amp for electrostatic speakers, which being largely capacitive loads (vs. inductive like normal speakers), present VERY complex loads that easily approach 0 ohms at certain frequencies, and rely on lots of current more than lots of voltage to obtain solid output. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0620-0, 05/15/2006 Tested on: 5/17/2006 12:11:13 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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Best magazines?
The most important criteria, of course, is how many ads they have
featuring bikini-clad models posing with amps and subwoofers... My wife calls PASMAG my "porno magazine that acts like a car magazine." |
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Best magazines?
Oh good, someone who hasn't heard my joke yet....
What does a Southerner call that fencing material used by cattle ranchers and prisons? Bob Wa.......ld I love that one. MOSFET |
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