Recent content by Mike Rivers

Any chance that they might see the value in making a new cassette deck? I'm hoping for a playback-only but high quality transport and decent electronics. I want another deck for "archival" playback but the price of TASCAM 122s has totally gone through the roof.

I have a set of Large Advents from 40 or more years back that I don't use much any more (location, location, location). When I discovered that they had no bass output, I removed the grills and found that there was practically no surround suspension left on the woofers. Got a couple of kits and...

Good connections usually do sound better than bad connections. Your description of the change is a bit audiophile-y, but I'm not surprised that you heard a change. It's one of the reasons why manufacturers can get away with selling $500/foot speaker cables with really solid terminations..

"Room correction" is a bit of a misnomer. You correct a room using a sledgehammer. Using a room correction program or black box adjusts the frequency response and time delay of the signal feeding the speakers so that it will be correct at one point in the room. If you have a decent room to start...

If I had a more modern interface, I probably never would have brought this up. I have the latest firmware and ASIO driver for it, but still, it's at least two years old. Everything I have around here is old (including me) but still works. I nearly bought a UR44 a couple of months ago to put...

Good thought about the ASIO buffer size. That reminded me that the last time I used this interface was when I was reviewing a virtual bass plug-in, and I wanted to see how low I could get the latency. This driver doesn't have the usual "how many samples?" buffer settings, it has five presets. It...

I updated the Win7x64 version (the one I sent the log file from) with the latest build and it might have been a little better. But when it hangs up when processing the calibration measurement, I have to restart Windows in order to get it to send data to the interface again. I'd been running...

I've found REW to be kind of flaky when running a sound card calibration. Level check is OK, the sweep runs, and when the sweep is complete, it hangs up in the Calculating FFTs process with the progress bar stuck at 95 to 96%. I can close the Calibration window but nothing else works. All I can...