If, God forbid, you were forced to give up all your recordings but one, which one would you keep? Based on how often I play it and sit smiling, tapping my foot, totally absorbed in the music, I think my choice might be "Soular Energy" - Ray Brown, Gene Harris, and Gerryck King.

I found your picture.

I thought I'd put up a list of software that I've been fooling around with lately. I've seen EAC, Foobar, & Flac mentioned before in passing but I haven't seen any threads for people to contribute useful free applications that they have found. With any luck we'll end up with a fairly comprehensive list.

F.L.A.C.
Free Lossless audio codec
Make sure to check out the extras, lots of great tools there

Hi All! I'm new to these forums and a newbie audiophile (well, I guess that's not really possible, right?!). Anyway, I'm a music junkie and am just revisiting an old love for vinyl. I recently purchased a Rega P1 turntable and found a great closeout price on a pair of Epos ELS-3s. What would you recommend for an integrated amp or phono pre amp / amp combo to drive this modest system? I will primarily use it for vinyl listening in my small home office.

Thanks in advance.

I want to thank all the posters on the board for their enlightening opinions and insights. When I was listening to John Coltrane meets Duke Ellington last night I was reminded of just how beautiful some recordings can be if you have some good equipment. When I was debating the Arcam Solo a number of people stepped up and said "it's a great unit" and the same for the Paradigm Speakers. I have to say that when I first got the speakers it didnt sound as good as they do now but people said to give them 30 hours or so to "warm up".