Cary Audio Design Music Server

Cary Audio Design Music Server

With 1TB of internal music storage, backup management program and Shoutcast internet radio capability, the Cary Audio Design Music Server appears to be a screaming deal at the estimated $2000-2500 price range. You can also add additional music storage via USB and control everything with an iPhone or Touch running their app.

LOMC for rock, blues, and jazz

Would anyone care to opine or recommend a LOMC cartridge in the $200-$500 range for the above genres? It will be mounted to a low/medium mass straight arm pipe (I also have the heavier "S" shaped pipe)for a JVC QL-Y66F table. I'm using a tubed Audio Experience Solo MC step-up into the MM side of a Cambridge 640-P phono amp. The Solo has quite a bit more gain than the MC side of the 640-P alone. I'm using Klipsch speakers so my system leans a little toward the bright side. Any and all opinions and/or recommendations will be greatly appreciated.

Western Government Sovereign Debt in Trouble

Interestingly PIMCO looks to be one of the 1st to move forward in its lack of confidence in government bonds of UK and America.
This could cause aggravation for both governments as it puts the interest up on future loans they look to secure.

Good read if interested:
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-01...debt-in-trouble

Website wishes

Happy New Year to all at Stereophile, I'm certainly looking forward to the year's articles reports and reviews.

I have three wishes for the New Year (well, these are my top 3, I have plenty of others):

1. Make the blogs searchable.

2. Index the regular columns by products covered, not just issue number.

3. Remove the one-year-at-a-time limit on searches in the forum.

Computer audio: more memory (RAM) = better sound?

Don't recall the issue, much less specific review and/or article (tho' I think the reviewer was Wes Phillips)...anyway, WP noted something like more RAM memory yields better sound (all else being equal).
What's your experience?
How much can one expect to gain WRT sound fidelity when adding x amount of memory? Is there an upper threshold (a point of diminishing returns) -- e.g., 4GB RAM, etc?

Shifting gears a bit, anyone do a head to head comparison of new SSD drives vs. std. magnetic HD?

Direct Digital NAD M2

Direct Digital NAD M2

NAD is well known for its traditional, high-quality, and relatively affordable integrated amplifiers. At this year's CES, NAD introduced a revolutionary new integrated, the M2 ($5999). NAD's Stephen DeFuria (right) told me that the M2 is what NAD calls a "Direct Digital" amplifier&#151;there is <I>no</I> analog circuitry!

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