Diana Ross's Slick RCA Records Debut

Advantages: The Rock-Funk classic, Mirror, Mirror
Disadvantages: Few of the tracks are just mediocre

...In 1981 soul music legend Diana Ross hit the headlines when it was announced that after twenty successful years she was fleeing Motown Records for a whopping $20,000,000 deal with RCA Records. Ross had signed to Motown records at the tender age of 16 and gradually became the labels biggest selling artist. Motown was the pioneering record label in black music and Ross and the companys boss Berry Gordy had helped change and shape the whole face of black music in the twentieth century. Ross went to Berry Gordy to see if he could match RCA Records' deal for $20,000,000 but he simply told her he could not afford such an extravagent deal and pointed out to her that she would not be afforded the same lavish care and attention her career had always received elsewhere. When Ross' contract expired in early 1981 she was adament that she was not...

IanPhillips 07.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Diana Ross

Diana Ross's RCA Records Debut Album

Advantages: Contains a few great tracks
Disadvantages: A few weak links

...Diana Ross' brand new life at RCA Records kicked off to a promising start both personally and professionally. She enjoyed the satisfaction she'd craved for so long in producing and generally being a more creative force with her studio albums. Diana virtually controlled every aspect of this album right down to the revealing cover shot where she is dressed in a startling zebra-skin outfit which she had incidentally designed herself. Aided by six studio technicians, Diana produced all 9 tracks on the Why Do Fools Fall In Love album which was belatedly released in September 1981, six months after its origanal schedule date. For somebody who had never produced an entire album before she certainly did remarkably well. Oddly enough the premier RCA single would be the cover version of Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers classic hit...

IanPhillips 31.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Why Do Fools Fall - Diana Ross

Good but not good enough

Advantages: Improve picture quality for most games
Disadvantages: some glitch still exist

...Cost: You can get it for £21.99 from Amazon. It is very expensive for the genuine article since those compatible cables are around £5 - £7 and some even less. Easy of installation??? I have a Sharp HD ready TV and I didn't look carefully at the connection port before I decided to buy one of this to improve the picture quality of my Wii. Hassle! Not every digital TV has the full five female sockets for all the five male RCA plugs of this cable (try not to be too technical here). My TV certainly hasn't got two phono sockets for the audio plugs. It has the YPbPr sockets (Y = turquoise colour socket, Pb = deep sky blue socket, Pr = orange/red socket, in contrast to the usual Red/Green/Blue sockets) for the HD video RCA plugs (strangely enough they are in green, blue and crimson/red colours instead - colour weakness for the Wii...

volcano 27.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nintendo Wii Component Video Cable

X540 Speakers

Advantages: Good Sound Quality, Stylish
Disadvantages: none

...Excellent speakers with a good bass, a rarely need either the volume or bass turned up above 50%, and I probably still annoy the neightbours with these. Green/Black/Orange connectors for full 5.1 surround sound from your PC, or use the provided "games console adapter" to use the red and white RCA audio output from your Xbox or Playstation Worth remembering that these are PC speakers, and so the cables arent massively long, so probabl aren't suitale for your living room. They are however, perfectly ample for an average bedroom. Each speaker can be swiveled on its stand to allow it to stand either upright on a desk, or at 90 degrees to the bass for wall mounting. The centre speaker mounts well ontop of a flatscreen monitor. Definately worth the £50...

mcdonger 24.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Logitech X 540

Certainly works for me.

Advantages: Light and easy to use ,great sound quality
Disadvantages: none to date

...on a gig with my band I use a small stereo mini jack to RCA/phono connector ( about £3 from radio shack) plug it into the headphone output on the shuffle and this allows me to play it through the bands PA system, I hit the random play and away we go instant DJ support for my band. The boys in the band could not believe the sound quality coming from some thing so small.Can't be bad. Battery life so far seems to be very good and the 1gb storage is ample for me ( 240 four minute songs) as it is so easy to up and download songs and edit your play list through itunes. I also bought the wall charger for it . This was £19.99 from apple plus shipping although I now notice that it can be found cheaper from the likes of Jigsaw24 online. All in all I consider this to be a great little piece of kit....

cliffie 01.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB

One of the BEST choice for sound card.

Advantages: smaller size, usb connection support, 3D sound experience, very cheap, high SNR ratio.
Disadvantages: Does not support all OS, requires very powerful processor& ram,all features not works on XP

...) Stereo Line in (1/8" mini jack) Headphone out (1/8" mini jack) Left/Right Speaker out (2x RCA jacks) Rear-Left/Rear-Right out (1/8" mini jack) Center/Subwoofer out (1/8" mini jack) Optical out (TOSLINK) 1 Here, the mic input is standard mic jack, allow you to use any normal speaker with this system. Same description goes for the headphone jack as well. What is most impressive about this sound card is that, there?s one dedicated port for subwoofer .Which is extremely helpful for avid musical fans and party fun. The optical out supports stereo SPDIF out, or in simple words it will pass through the multichannel DVD sound. Very impressive, I must say. STANDARD FEATURES The first thing about this sound card is creating high quality 3D surround sound. This is very helpful for certain games and music as well. Even using...

Gladiator007 03.03.2009 (12.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

Sharpest knife in the draw

Advantages: Good value, good sound, good quality, well known brand
Disadvantages: Limited to 8 pre-set equalisers preventing custom tweaking

...We decided to dump the old Hi-Fi system and opt for something a little more modern. We chose this medium sized system because we liked its appearance and its sound. You actually get a lot in the machine for your money, such as 3 CD auto changer, 2 full logic tape decks, Dolby Surround Sound, 5 speakers, 100 watts RMS altogether which is distributed over the 5 speakers, 2 AUX RCA connectors for connecting TV and video, or an extra device such as a turntable. The sound is very rich and clear, and the bass is gentle, but good. The construction of the system feels solid and well made. As with all systems these days, a remote control is included which provides access to most of the system's funtions....

bobsmith 16.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Sharp PC651H

Old Owl Eyes Is Back

Advantages: Some Essential Reed Songs
Disadvantages: A lot of filler

...This was Lou Reed's second solo album, post Velvet Underground, produced under the aegis of his mentor and RCA label mate of the time David Bowie. The album is heavily influenced by "Ziggy" era Bowie, which ironic considering that Bowie was heavily influenced by the work of Reed with the Velvet Underground. Reed influencing Bowie influencing Reed. The album is none the worse for Ziggy's influence. The cover is interesting featuring a scary stark pure black and white photograph of Reed on the front and models representing Reed's male / female personae on the back. There are some fine songs here, opening with the excellent "Vicious" which could have graced a VU album, this is floowed by "Andy's Chest" about Mr Warhol. Next up we have "Perfect Day" which was also the "B" side of the stand out song here "Walk On The Wildside" with that...

mikeydred 17.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Transformer [Remastered] - Lou Reed

Great for anyone DJ and homeowner alike

Advantages: Pioneer quality, many features, great sound
Disadvantages: An annoying pause feature.

...I bought two of these for the bar I managed when the cd players we currently ran were broken by a dj. These things a genius as is all of this series of product. They can be hooked up by analog RCA cables, quarter inch cables, and the ones I bought came with an adapter to go from XLR to quarter inch. They have automatic tempo control to speed up or slow down a song as well as the ability to do it manually by turning the cover of the disc drive. They even have bells and whisltes of adding sound effects to a song, remember and repeat playing just portions of the song and giving different treble and bass levels. They are extremely durable the two we used at Red Square Nightclub living through being dropped, being stepped on by a 340lbs dj, having beer and rum spilt on them and the untold amount of dust in the dank dark bar we...

Albinorhino 11.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Pioneer CDJ 200

Great value for money

Advantages: Sony quality
Disadvantages: More inputs on back, just has Scart with S-Video on front of unit

...claim it will burn to all + and - DVD's including R and RW. Just to clarify on the spec: REAR: HDMI out (with 1080p upscaled pictures) Scart 1: RGB, S-Video and composite video + stereo audio out Scart 2: RGB, S-Video and composite video + stereo audio in; S-Video and composite video + stereo audio out Component video (via 3 x RCA/phono sockets) with PAL/NTSC progressive scan S-Video out (via 4 pin mini din) Composite video & stereo audio line out (via 3 x RCA/phono sockets) FRONT: S-Video (via 4 pin mini din), composite video and stereo audio in (via 3 x RCA/phono sockets) Playback format compatibility: DVD-RAM, DVD/-R/-RW/+R/RW (including dual layer formats), CD/-R/-RW, DivX, JPEG, MP3, S/VCD Record format compatibility: DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW, -/+R Dual Layer...

ninjatech 08.01.2008 (07.01.2008) · Read review
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Review of Sony RDR-GX 350