How come these people haven't got food and water yet? Decent medical care? This sounds like Katrina only much worse. I hope you losers that blamed all that on the last president feel like shit this go around. Along with all the other bullshit you idiots were wrong about. Pft!

Oh, and BTW, don't think people are not noticing a guy says goodbye to his girlfriend and shuts down thousands of people for hours at Newark and some other loser walks through the wrong door at JFK and the whole mess starts all over again. Yeah, this hope and change shit is working splendid.

Many of you know that I've owned the MPS-5 since the spring of 2008. I was surprised to see it in Stereophile, because I didn't think that there were enough dealers to qualify for Stereophile's arbitrary standard. I posted my own little review in the forums at the time.

Anyway, MF's experience coincided pretty much with mine, particularly the improvement over time. It's absolutely stunning with SACDs and high rez PCM. In my experience, it makes RBCDs sound as good as they can, given their limitations.

You guys are going to love this....Lexicon took a $500 Oppo BD-83, and quite literally stuffed the entire chassis into a Lexicon skin and front plate and is selling it for $3500.00

There's an in-depth review of it here on Audioholics:

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/trans...xicon-outside-1

I was at the Midwest record collectors fair today.

Ive been attending regularly for around 2 years, with each show it gets busier. Todays show was easily the most popular ive seen, the sellers were spilling into the hallways and all the tables were straining under the weight of full boxes of albums. Every person attending also seemed to be buying.

This is not a small show, they have 60+ exhibitors and easily 200+ people walking around when i was there.

Any ideas for new/used amps, power or integrated to drive Magnepan MMGs? I'm exploring subwoofers to take the sub-50 Hz duty. I might even play around with various high pass filters to completely relieve the MMGs below 50 Hz. I saw a used Creek 5350S which looked promising.

In this thread, more technical details of layout/topology and internal images were requested for the Ayre QB-9 D/A processor. The thread evolved quite nicely and, IMO, definitely serves a need for technophiles as well as the more-curious general reader.
Can someone repeat this for the Meridian 808.2 CD player?
Let me get the ball rolling with these top-cover-off images I found on the German web site, stereoplay.de

Audio Pro = Swedish brand. http://www.audiopro.com/ Anybody know anything about their subwoofers or their speakers in general?

They appear to offer a fairly extensive line. Not high priced, but maybe a good value-for-money trade-off?

Googling turned up some reference to them on UK A/V forums and some mostly favorable consumer ratings but not much else.

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/trans...xicon-outside-1

I was just browsing Craigslist and saw a used HD-DVD player. Now we all know that the HD-DVD format is obsolete. Since it is backward compatible with Audio CDs what about using one as a transport for coaxial and/or optical SPDIF out?

The one I saw was:
Toshiba HD-XA2 1080p HD-DVD Player - $98 USED
[coax and Toslink digital audio outs]