Comments on: Great cheap-outs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/ Same old blog, brand new place Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Russell Nelson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/comment-page-1/#comment-2254 Russell Nelson Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:19:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/#comment-2254 PCSoundWorks++ E. Power Biggs's rendition of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Yum. PCSoundWorks++

E. Power Biggs’s rendition of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Yum.

]]> By: CGHill http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/comment-page-1/#comment-2240 CGHill Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:45:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/#comment-2240 I have a brace of Cambridge's old Model 88s, which are stereo units with a built-in subwoofer. The tuners are marvelous, both AM and FM: everything comes in where it's supposed to, and nowhere else. And the one AM/FM simulcast in town, well, you sometimes have to look to see which band you're on. (It's a sports-talk outlet, and the FM is strictly mono.) I have a brace of Cambridge’s old Model 88s, which are stereo units with a built-in subwoofer. The tuners are marvelous, both AM and FM: everything comes in where it’s supposed to, and nowhere else. And the one AM/FM simulcast in town, well, you sometimes have to look to see which band you’re on. (It’s a sports-talk outlet, and the FM is strictly mono.)

]]> By: Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/comment-page-1/#comment-2209 Doc Searls Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:24:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/#comment-2209 Thanks, Milan. I knew better, but... whatever. I'm still no local, that's for sure. My driving is still cautious, for example. And Michael, I'd agree about the Tivoli, but I think I might like the sound of the Cambridge better. The dial on the Tivoli is more precise (a pointer rather than a broad green light), and as I recall it also has right and left line out RCA jacks, which are nice. I also don't know how the Tivoli does for front end overload or "blanketing" by strong local stations, but I tested the Cambridge at the warehouse, which sits at the feet of the towers from which at least half of Boston's FM stations radiate, and there was no problem at all. By contrast, fancy receivers in the store were rendered useless by the thick local RF. It's shameful how awful the FM tuners in those things are now. Thanks, Milan. I knew better, but… whatever. I’m still no local, that’s for sure. My driving is still cautious, for example.

And Michael, I’d agree about the Tivoli, but I think I might like the sound of the Cambridge better. The dial on the Tivoli is more precise (a pointer rather than a broad green light), and as I recall it also has right and left line out RCA jacks, which are nice.

I also don’t know how the Tivoli does for front end overload or “blanketing” by strong local stations, but I tested the Cambridge at the warehouse, which sits at the feet of the towers from which at least half of Boston’s FM stations radiate, and there was no problem at all. By contrast, fancy receivers in the store were rendered useless by the thick local RF. It’s shameful how awful the FM tuners in those things are now.

]]> By: Michael R. Bernstein http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 Michael R. Bernstein Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:10:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/#comment-2208 For an extra $20, you could get a Tivoli Model 1. For an extra $20, you could get a Tivoli Model 1.

]]> By: Milan http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 Milan Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:04:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/21/great-cheap-outs/#comment-2203 Whoops. When talking about You-Do-It's location, I think you meant "I-95" (which the locals still call "128") rather than 495. Whoops. When talking about You-Do-It’s location, I think you meant “I-95″ (which the locals still call “128″) rather than 495.

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