Sorry to call her out, but I was just curious to see, week after week in the Vote section, only ONE obviously (allegedly since you can write anything) female voter. I've never seen her post anything on the Forums, and sadly, the only other woman I'm aware of posting is May Belt.

I am not really sure where to post this query. I was recently flipping through the November, 2008 issue, and Sam Tellig mentions that the Cary CDP1 is his current reference. I refer back to the April, 2007 issue in which he discusses that player, as well as the Rega Saturn. His conclusion was that he was not sure which to purchase.

I'm sure many of you are aware of this, I though I'd share it anyway.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print

I recently read Bob Bairds article on the recent revival of a record pressing plant in Brooklyn, NY.
Looking at some of the photos, it appears as if the vinyl compound is the same schwag that's been used for the past 60 or so years.

Hasn't chemical engineering advanced just a little since 1950? Or is vinyl LP manufacture regarded as a "poor relation" that is simply not worthy of further development?

I don't know if this would be classified as a tweak, but I guess it could be considered a tip, so I'll post here.

The last day or so, I've been listening to a CD burned from a download of the Ultimate Demo Disk 2 from Chesky Records.

I downloaded it as a set of FLACs and converted them to AIFF with Max, and burned a CD in iTunes. Been listening to the CD the last few days on my state of the art Sony Playstation, SPCH-101. I bought one of these for a whopping $34.95 on eBay after reading Art Dudley's review of it in October.