Once again, another shady Obama appointee, former auto industry czar Steven Rattner settles lawsuit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_cuomo_rattner_settlement

Look like a nice all in one component for DAC, preamp and headphone amp. Including async USB. Would be great to see a review of it.

Thanks, Ralph

Just saw this network music player in the new Audio Advisor catalog. Any plans for a Stereophile review? Would be interesting to see a comparison to the Squeezebox Touch, which is about half the price. Thanks.

I am 20 years old, enrolled at Memorial University in Newfoundland. My father, having been a diehard music lover and listener, has owned many stereo systems since the early 70's. Upon leaving for college, my father gave me some of his vintage components:

Technics SU-V8 Integrated Amp
Technics ST-S3 Tuner
ADC Sound Shaper III, Mk II Equalizer
Pioneer CT-F1250 Cassette Deck
Kenwood KD-3070 Turntable
Realistic APM-300 Power Meters
Pioneer SR-303 Reverberation Amplifier
Panasonic DVD-S35 DVD/CD Player (obviously not vintage, but a component, nonetheless)

Hi all,

I recently had an extended conversation with my neighbor, who works at Dolby Labs here in San Francisco.

In the course of our discussion, I took my usual opportunity to bemoan the decline of DVD-A. He informed me that their Dolby TrueHD offering is based on MLP Lossless - also the core of DVD-A technology - and has been further enhanced with better data rates and channel options.

Thus, it now seems DVD-A is far from dead. This is likely old news to Stereophile staff members, but I no doubt missed the memo.

Bill

Hi all,

Are there any top flight music servers out there that will copy & store high-res formats like SACDs, Blu-spec and DVD-As?

Thanks & see you at CES!

Bill

Hi All,
I've been reading through the forums and I've been really impressed at the quality of the responses.

Anyway, I'm trying to update my old system as my receiver died. My old system consisted of:
Harman Kardon hk795i receiver
B&O red line speakers
B&O turntable
Nakamichi BX125 tape deck
Yamaha CD player - don't know the model

The recent posting of the review of the Halide Design S/PDIF Bridge has a major omission in referring to DACs that support asynchronous USB. The article states: "However, only a very few products currently available—from Ayre Acoustics, dCS, and Wavelength Audio—have featured this mode, and these have used it as the front-end circuit for a full-function D/A processor".

The second generation HRT Music Streamers all support asynchronous USB, from the entry level Music Streamer II at $149 to the Music Streamer Pro at $499.

I have found a sony ex-2m record player/ 8track and tuner combo. It was in my grand mothers closet. It seems in good shape, the 8 track and tuner works but for the turntable I cannot get it to work. won't spin. I took off the "turn table" and it seems like where I think the idler wheel should be it is spinning and changes speeds. But, there is no rubber on the idler, but there is no broken or parts of any wheel or rubber in side the case. I cannot imagine at anytime Grandma took off the cover and removed anything. I cannot find any info on the web on this model.

I am loading a lot of my CD's into the computer to Channel D's Pure Music and iTunes...ALL are WAV files. 75% produce album art when the right buttons are pushed BUT the rest do not. It seems the art is available if iTunes sells the music but if I find the art on any other source, it refuses to load. I get a error message that says the artwork cannot be modified (even when there is none)...

I tried 'cover scout' but that pretends to not even see my files...