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Hi. I'm looking for some intro books on hi-end audio, something that will
go over the basics like transformers, power supplies, filters, speaker
design, cables, etc. I would prefer to start off at a very basic level and
absorb the essentials, before I tried to go further into it. Thanks.


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Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
Hi. I'm looking for some intro books on hi-end audio, something that will
go over the basics like transformers, power supplies, filters, speaker
design, cables, etc. I would prefer to start off at a very basic level and
absorb the essentials, before I tried to go further into it. Thanks.


A good starter book can be had for free download at Pete Millett's
site. It's by Norman Crowhurst, and IIRC the title is "Basic Audio," or
something like that.

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Hi. I'm looking for some intro books on hi-end audio, something that will
go over the basics like transformers, power supplies, filters, speaker
design, cables, etc. I would prefer to start off at a very basic level and
absorb the essentials, before I tried to go further into it. Thanks.



http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide...e=UTF8&s=books


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I'd recommend the complete works of Sigmund Freud to try to understand
the minds of the people who post on audiophile newsgroups.

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Bret Ludwig wrote:
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I'd recommend the complete works of Sigmund Freud to try to understand
the minds of the people who post on audiophile newsgroups.


Why bother? Sigmund figured everything boiled down to food, ****,
cocks and ****s. Two paragraphs could sum his theories up. Mostly
horse****.

A cocaine addict, like Hitler and GW Bush.


Of course, you've read most of the Standard Edition so this is a
balanced comment based on intimate knowledge? Tell me, for instance,
what you think of screen memories? Or the latent period? Or hysterical
conversion?

You probably know as little about Freud as you do about Hitler. Shall
we start on Europen history during and after the first World War, or
did everything boil down to food, ****,
cocks and ****s there as well?

Oh, by the way, Happy New Year. Make a resolution to read some books in
2007.



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Thanks for suggestions on Harley Book. That looks like a fun book to
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Hitler was a common rabble rouser who used the standard, proven, and
not wholly unjustified grievances of his day and leveraged them against
the situation in Germany, which was a nation reduced to penury by the
Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression. Things went out of
control when the war broke out , aided by his drug habits and tertiary
syphilis induced lack of sanity.


That seems about right, though Germany had started to do quite well
again up to the Wall St Crash when aid was withdrawn. Hitler seemed to
have had a wholly psychopathic ability to take control of things by
using the most ingenious kind of thuggery, so he was a bit of
"virtuoso" rabble rouser in a manner of speaking.

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Andy Evans wrote:
Hitler was a common rabble rouser who used the standard, proven, and
not wholly unjustified grievances of his day and leveraged them against
the situation in Germany, which was a nation reduced to penury by the
Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression. Things went out of
control when the war broke out , aided by his drug habits and tertiary
syphilis induced lack of sanity.


That seems about right, though Germany had started to do quite well
again up to the Wall St Crash when aid was withdrawn. Hitler seemed to
have had a wholly psychopathic ability to take control of things by
using the most ingenious kind of thuggery, so he was a bit of
"virtuoso" rabble rouser in a manner of speaking.



The notion that things were under control prior to WWII is absurd.

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Had Hitler been assasinated in 1937, he would be a hero in every
history book today.


By 1937, Hitler had already been persecuting Jews for years, had made
himself a dictator, had engaged in extensive political violence, and
had shut down media coverage of said violence. A monster by any
measure.

And though no sane society will ever extol him as
a heroic figure, his days of being the locus of evil in history books
are already coming to an end. That's why they are throwing historians
in jail all over Europe. It will backfire and the consequences-an end
to Judeocentric neocon power in the US and Israel being forced into
some very unpleasant policy changes-won't hurt my feelings at all. A
Palestinian Tel Aviv will burn their ass, especially when they have to
accept the fact the alternative is one turned into a green glass
parking lot. As the United States loses the last of its industrial base
and is turned into a broken nation, with a Mestizo-ridden Southwest, it
will be quite powerless to intercede no matter what fundie TV
preachers or Americn Jewry may say.


Oy vey!

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That's why they are throwing historians in jail all over Europe

Yes, interesting point this. Maybe in future years historians will be
thrown in jail in NATO countries for suggesting that the Balkan war was
started in the first instance by NATO cocking up the agreement between
Milosovic and Tudjman - an agreement that everybody expected to be a
formality - by making demands (most likely over oil and gas line
franchising) that resulted in Milosovic storming out of talks saying
the Serbian equivalent of "over my dead body". Although, seeing how the
prime movers of NATO comprehensively ****ed up in Iraq maybe history
will look backwards and realise that they had already started ****ing
up in Yugoslavia. The way things stand, history has no grasp on the
Balkan war and Milosovic is conveniently dead and so unable to put the
record straight.



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Bret Ludwig wrote:
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That's why they are throwing historians in jail all over Europe

Yes, interesting point this. Maybe in future years historians will be
thrown in jail in NATO countries for suggesting that the Balkan war was
started in the first instance by NATO cocking up the agreement between
Milosovic and Tudjman - an agreement that everybody expected to be a
formality - by making demands (most likely over oil and gas line
franchising) that resulted in Milosovic storming out of talks saying
the Serbian equivalent of "over my dead body". Although, seeing how the
prime movers of NATO comprehensively ****ed up in Iraq maybe history
will look backwards and realise that they had already started ****ing
up in Yugoslavia. The way things stand, history has no grasp on the
Balkan war and Milosovic is conveniently dead and so unable to put the
record straight.


If you will throw a historian in jail for saying one thing, you will
throw him in jail for saying anything, at which point history will be
left to imbeciles and manipulators, as the samrter will abandon it.
That's what they are counting on.


During the Balkan war the only semblance of neutral information came
from the previous entity of Non Aligned Nations (NAM), such as India.
The coverage in NATO countries was a joke - the TV and radio "news" was
taken word for word from NATO as spewed out by Jamie Shea. You could
always tell because whenever Shea came up with a new phrase (like
"Milosovic is defiant", or "ethnic cleansing") it was round the whole
of the news channels that day.

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Bret Ludwig wrote:
thomas wrote:
Bret Ludwig wrote:

Had Hitler been assasinated in 1937, he would be a hero in every
history book today.


By 1937, Hitler had already been persecuting Jews for years, had made
himself a dictator, had engaged in extensive political violence, and
had shut down media coverage of said violence. A monster by any
measure.


Jews had been kicked out of what was then and is now Germany, or parts
thereof, many times before Hitler. And not wholly without good reason,
though one may wll argue most Jews were innocent of the reasons, the
people made it imperative they be kicked out. Jewish
financial-kingmaking interests came to influence the government and the
people rebelled.

Hitler was a coarse, brutish man. No other would have succeeded, as in
Iraq with Saddam Hussein. He had a talent for **** disturbing and
engineering "thuggish" behavior: again, else he would not have
succeeded. His goals including expelling all Jews from Germany
partially because it was politically expedient and saleable but also
because otherwise none of the necessary changes in finance and
marketing needed to get Germany working would have been feasible. Not
every Jew was profiteering from the German plight-probably more than
not were suffering along with everyone else-but powerful Jews
unquestionably controlled the media and the entertainment businesses.
THey would have stopped him dead had he not removed their influence,
and he did it. One could reasonably argue that Hitler saved countless
lives by stopping Germany from becoming Communist, where most of the
best Germans would have been slaughtered as millions were in the Soviet
countries. Had Germany avoided war with the US and Britain, "The
Holocaust (TM)" would certainly never have happened.

Want to prevent future Hitlers? See to it that a population such as
that of Germany-or America- is not put in that position again. Protect
American industry, send Mexican illegals back home where they belong,
and stop needless American adventuring abroad where it only causes us
trouble.


The thing I liked about Hitler was that he didn't take any **** from
magicians. But the rest of your story--holy moly! Not a lot of people
will go to bat for old Adolph, other than neo-Nazis.

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