Red's Notes   
(Use the "X" to close this window when you are finished here.  Thank you.)

The files showing in this play list are approximations of the exquisite CD-quality sound on the CD itself. In order that we may speed-up your download times of these samples, some of the fidelity of the original has been reduced, and "clipping" has been used to protect our copyright.

These are streaming audio files, and in times of heavy network congestion, or if your hardware is not optimally configured to today's constant changes is media presentations, you may receive a "buffering" notice in your media player. If this happens, the media player will resume playing the same. 

If you are using the Windows Media Player, and buffering appears to be excessive, you may try some of the following:

Tips for Improving Windows Media Player Performance

If you are experiencing drop-outs in the audio stream, you may need to change some settings on your Windows Media Player. The default configuration for WMP is only a 3 second buffer and it uses UDP, which is not error-correcting. Here's how to fix it:

Version 6.x

1. Click on any music to Start the Player.
2. After it has started to play, click the STOP button.
3. Go to the menu View --> Settings --> Windows Media Source Filter.
4. Change the Buffering to Buffer and enter 15 seconds.
5. Under Protocols, Uncheck the UDP option.
6. Click OK, (or Press Enter) then EXIT/QUIT the player.
7. Restart the player by clicking on an audio link.

New Version 7.0

1. Open version 7 of Media Player to its expanded screen position
2. Click on Tools located in the upper left corner task tray.
3. Click on Options and inside that click Performance.
4. Set the Network buffering to 15.
5. Click open Network and uncheck UDP.
6. Before closing up the Options screen click OK.
7. Click OK, (or Press Enter) then EXIT/QUIT the player.
8. Restart the player by clicking on an audio link.

This will increase the buffer size and will force the player to use an error-checking protocol instead of the non-error-checking protocol.

If you want to tailor the Frequency Response of the audio, you can set up the equalizer, Go to View --> Settings --> Windows Media Audio Decoder. I've found the following setting helps remove some of the digital artifacts of the high frequency sounds. Set the 19.2K and 9.8K sliders all the way down, and set the 4.8K slider about half way down. If you listen to other higher bandwidth content, don't forget to reset these settings for that content.