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All of what I want just "piques" my already tight post-holidays wallet.
A wide variety of audio products, from portable to extreme, are announced every year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Anything from the recent CES pique your interest?
The Thiel CS3.7. The Thiel CS3.6 was a cost/performance standard for over a decade but is long overdue for an update. The New CS3.7 looks to be a worthy successor. It will be interesting to see how long it takes Thiel to incorporate the new technology for the CS3.7 into their other models.
I'm afraid I can't break up the two--I was intensely "piqued" by the sound, looks and feel of the Krell Evolution 1 amp and Evolution preamp. I hope to see a review of this most worthy pair in an upcoming Stereophile issue.
The affordable stuff piqued my interest. YBA's new gear in particular. The expensive stuff was interesting and awesome, but I have very little interest (other than getting a little insight into the manufacturer) in seeing Stereophile devote much deadtree space on these sorts of things.
I'm very interested in the music server products you covered. I have a dedicated Apple computer using iTunes to run uncompressed music ripped from my CDs in our main system. It sounds great, but I'm sure it could be tweaked to sound even better. I'm not interested in downloading files, but just finding better servers and software for organizing my library.