You should be able to get your sound back in the center with the key combo alt-shift-k. You can do this either in the equalizer window, or in the main Winamp window. Evan

My life partner has had this experience of her machine being mysteriously muted a few times. What I have found when this has happened is that the volume was set to zero. So, at least in the instances

Yes, I had a Book Sense fixed by them, twice actually. It all went very smoothly. But that was several years ago and things may have changed. Hopefully, you’ll hear from people who’ve had more recent

Hi Ann, Why not just Google "asynchronous motor"? I did, and the first result is a Wikipedia article on induction motors, which are also called asynchronous motors: "An induction motor or asynchronous

You’re welcome Steven. You can monitor the recording by plugging headphones into the headphone jack on the Book Sense. You may have to play around with the output level a bit before you really get sta

If you’re talking about microphone only recording, then the Book Sense does not record in stereo. It has only one internal mike. Evan

Yes, the Book Sense records in stereo. Make sure it’s set to stereo in the Recording Settings menu. Also, make sure it’s set to Line In and Not Microphone. Then plug a stereo patchcord into it and you

Well, I went to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind from 1966 to 1978. It wasn’t perfect, but what is? Overall, though, I had most positive experiences there. And I do go to the Alumni get-t

I had forgotten about the Optacon in this discussion. I am fortunate enough to be able to have two of them, so I won't have to go without if I should have to send one back to Richard Oehm for repair.

My thought would be that if you want to find a nice braille display at a good price is to subscribe to the Blind Ads list. I got a perfectly functional Pac Mate Omni BX version with a great 40-cell br

At the risk of getting into that long debate I said I didn’t want to get into, I will add something I think I should have mentioned in my original response to Ron. When I said that the process of read

Well Ron, as I said in my original message, I really don’t care a whole lot about this issue, so I’m not going to get into a long debate. I will only say that, while braille is not the same as print,

Well, I would say that listening to an audio book is not the same as reading it, either in braille or print. To illustrate, if I tell you a story, would you say that you had read it? No. Now, what if

Hi Steven, Thanks, I’ll follow up on those links if you send them off list. I haven’t played with anything at all, just read a bit about it and talked with a friend of mine who doesn’t use screen read

Thanks Jim. I’ve subscribed to that list and I will try my question there. Evan

Hi Steve, I was asking about software packages you run on your computer. You still have to connect something to detect the radio signals to your PC, but most of the functions of the radio are performe

Hey Guys, I asked this on the All Audio list, and the Blind Tech list, but didn’t get any responses other than inquiries as to what Software Defined Radio is. So I’m hoping that someone here may be ab

Thanks Joanne, I didn’t know Carlos, but I gather from many posts that I’ve read here that he was a remarkable fellow. I fully understand and wholeheartedly endorse memorializing him and his contribut

Sorry, but I just can’t agree that the price differential between SSD’s and traditional hard drives is not that great. It’s still very large. You’re saying that a 1TB SSD for $100 is a good deal? Well

Have you ever had any trouble telling if the machine is on? I mean, what if your voice quits? How do you know whether the machine is still on? Has that ever come up? Evan