DAK April 21 Newsletter Delivery Failure and 8 Tutorial Review

April 21, 2003	DAK's Hot Products	Today's New Product	Talk Back Poll
Today's Tech Tip		Electronics Quiz	Final Thoughts

Here's Your Newsletter Update From DAK Industries, Inc. Dear Fellow DAKonian,

OK, first an admission. I'm still having problems with the newsletter eMail distribution. So, I'd appreciate your help.

Two weeks ago, I asked if you'd received the Newsletter with the big LP Tutorial in it. And an astounding 62% of you had not. (See Poll at Right.)

Last week it was the newsletters to AOL that seemed to be having delivery problems. So, here's what I've done. I've made a change in the formatting (not what you see, it's invisible).

Here's Your Link
for the "Turning My LPs Into CDRs" Review

Grab the Mixer or the Turntable, or Both.

Oh, and it's not me, or at least I don't think it is. I'm using one of the bigger eMail delivery companies and I'm still having problems. Drat. After working through 4 different people, they said oh yes, AOL seems to be having some problems with our 'click tracking', so turn it off. (That's how I know when the eMail is delivered and clicked on.) So after several months of missed mail, maybe this will solve it. I wish any of the first people had helped me. Oh Well.

Anyway, in this week's newsletter I'm doing 2 special things.

Thing One. I'm providing links to our last two products

Thing Two. I'm providing you with an archived list of my DrewTorials (My Tutorials) you can access and check out if you missed any of them.

Here's Your Link
for the "Equalizer/Spectrum Analyzer" Review

Plus I'm asking you to please pick one of my polls below to let me know if you if you've gotten the last two newsletters or not.

It's anonymous, so please do pick a poll and vote. Then I can get back to writing tutorials and reviewing products again. Oh, and next week I might try just a text eMail as a test too.

OK, Here are my Polls.

AOL PLEASE

NON-AOL PLEASE

OK, Now Why Not Check Out The Tutorials.

Here are Some of the tutorials I've written. You might want to save this newsletter so you can have easy access to these tutorials as you have time. And, I'll post some of these again and some of the other tutorials in Future Newsletters, so stay tuned and keep reading.

Tutorial - Keyboard Shortcuts - Here's a bunch of really easy time saving ways to do easy tasks right from your keyboard.
Tutorial - Shortcuts The ShortCut Bar and More - Here's how to use the Office Shortcut bar to do much more for you from now on.
Tutorial - Working With Digital Pictures on your computer - Learn things I missed Fast. If you're doing pictures. This will really help.
Tutorial - Customizing Word - Don't be stuck with the defaults. Make Word Really 'sing' for you. You'll save time and do things that you may not have known you could do.
Tutorial - LPs To CDs HOW TO - This is great. If you love your LPs, here's how easy it is to turn them into CDs yourself FAST. Cassettes and Open Reel Tapes too.
Tutorial - LPs To CDs The Software - OK, so you didn't know what to do with the Software? Well here's a step by step look at software to convert your LPs into CDs.
Tutorial - LP Memories How to Find Them On The Net - Remember your favorite LPs from the past? Have you lost them? Did you ever own them? Well, now you can find them fast and cheap.
Tutorial - Frequencies And Improving Your Stereo's Sound - Want Great Sound from your stereo? The more you know about the individual frequencies that each instrument creates, the more you can do to improve your music from now on. Big time.

Next newsletter. More product revises and more tutorials. Let the good times roll.

I Hope you had a great holiday.

Your DAKonian Buddy,

Drew Kaplan
President

P.S. Below, I've reproduced Both the Frequency Tutorial (The More You know, The Better It Sounds). And the opening to the Equalizer Review in case you missed them.

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You'll find and scan all 11 16 new products quickly and easily. Does this format work?

Check out the headlines, see the pictures and click on a picture to see the whole review.

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Smart Sound Detonator Equalizer, Spectrum Analyzer and Drew's (my) Test Disc.

Make all your music dramatic and dynamic. REALLY.

It's really amazing how many people don't have equalizers now that CDs and MP3 have given us so much to work with. Have you checked out the Smart Sound Detonator Equalizer Review?

Imagine infusing your music with the powerful rich drama that the deep bass of a string bass or contra bassoon adds. It's really amazing that all the sounds are actually in our music but we can't hear them because of:

1. Analogy source material
2. Poor recording
3. Room Acoustics
4. Imaging problems
5. Our own ears
6. More. . .

Now you can boost the trumpets, violins or flutes to sound just the way you want. Add mid-bass without giving your favorite vocalist a sore throat.

Now you can take control of and sculpt your music so it's vibrant, alive, and literally throbbing.

This isn't a small improvement. And if I sound excited, I am. Over 280,000 DAKonians have added equalizers to their systems in the past. I guarantee you'll be thrilled with the results.

What's really great is that by using the in/out defeat switch, you can instantly hear the exact improvements you've made. I'm not even slightly worried that I've raised your expectations too high. Once you engage this equalizer, you simply won't ever take it out of your system again.
Check out the Equalizer Review Here

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Drew's Frequency Equalization Tutorial
The More You know, The Better It Sounds.

What's a fundamental? What's a harmonic? Why should you care? Why not visit the Frequency Tutorial?

OK, if you love music like I do, you've really have to know and understand the frequencies that you're listening to in order to know how you can improve what you hear.

Is it missing mid-bass? What is mid-bass anyway? What frequencies are covered by the human voice? A Male? A Female?

What if you want to hear more of a tuba? Less of a Violin? What if a CD is too strident for your liking?

Well, check out today's tutorial on frequencies and get a firm grasp of what frequencies are covered by what instruments so you can access what will improve your sound. Visit the Frequency Tutorial Here.

So here's a question. Is your sound really good now? How do you know? Have you tested it?

Do you know what frequencies you're hearing? Well, why not check out the tutorial and check out my Instrument Frequencies Chart to see.

The more you know, the better your can make your stereo and all your music sound from now on.
The Frequency Tutorial is worth seeing.

.. . .Drew

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OK, that's it for this issue of the DAK Electronics Newsletter Update. Please do let me know what you think.

What you'd like. What you didn't like. Is it too much? Too little? Here's an easy link to tell me about the newsletter DrewKaplan@DAK.com.

Don't forget to check out what's new at DAK. Here are two links to help get you started
Hot products

Quizzes (Check out the Customizing Word Quiz. It's a blast.)
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And just below is your way out of my newsletters if you're not interested in the DAK Tech Times or my ramblings.
Note: You can always scroll down to the bottom of any newsletter I send you and do what you must.

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