<HTML>In a message dated 01/12/2002 10:04:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, cedel@supernet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Friends, How many of you ETD users do aural checks?  Isn't that a waste of time, if you can trust the ETD?  Or can't they be trusted?  (I'm not giving my opinion -- yet, anyway.) Clyde </BLOCKQUOTE> Clyde,  I use an accutuner ll , and I use aural checks,not because I don't trust the machine, it's just smart buisness, to take advantage of both set of ears.If you have an interval out,you are gonna hear it,whether you want to or not,if you are a tuner.For instance,when I'm tuning the tempermant octave,if I am hitting thirds or fourths,or whatever,I know whether they are sharpe or flat,fast or slow,before I see the lights,I can't help it.But the machine really helps save my ear,by the end of the day,helping me listen.I have great thoughts for answers,but ramble with the typing,oh well. Good tuning Hazen Bannister</HTML>