"One of the nice things about being an Audio columnist is that I can not only strongly encourage but also grant full diplomatic immunity to any reader of this magazine who suddently lunges forward and violently karate-kicks the next audiocreep who repeats that age-old hi-fi lie about how only people who regularly attend live music events can accurately judge the sound of audio gear.

From the article found on the front page of the web site entitled Grabbing the Crystal by the Ball. Great read, much of it oddly prescient, but I especially liked these gems:

"Stereo Review magazine will publish an article offering conclusive proof, supported by irrefutable statistical evidence, that under carefully controlled conditions it is impossible to distinguish an oboe from an English horn. It will assert that people who believe they are playing an English horn are deluding themselves, and are actually playing an oboe."

I have had the same system for the last ten years. I have only upgraded speakers and amp. Currentlly I have A NAD Amp driving Thiel speakers. As time has gone by all my music has been migrated to an itunes libray. My current MAC is an 27 inch IMAC. I run all my music through the Aux input of the BEO 9000. My problem is that I have to have the BEO repaired again and I feel it is time to replace this as it will be the third or fourth time under the knife and it is acting as though the power supply is bad.

Hi all,

I am looking at getting some equipment for my dad. He wants to have a digital source; he said something like a portable music player with uncompressed music, but I'm wondering if there is any easier or cheaper way to accomplish this. If it matters, he has an old British Fidelity A100 amplifier and two DCM TF500 speakers. I myself am pretty new to the audiophile scene and welcome any suggestions you may have.

I read thru the topical section in the Quality... article from 1995, as well as countless Measurements sections in Stereophile CDP or D/A reviews old and new.

I don't understand:

(a) how Stereophile derives bit depth from Spectral Analysis?
(b) why bit depth/resolution is randomly reported in Measurements (i.e., reported in review of a particular CD Player or D/A processor and not a particular CD Player or D/A processor in another review)?

ABBA, but not Little Feat, Los Lobos, or even Alice Cooper.

Are The Monkees in the Hall?

Would you put ABBA in, or no?

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I have some old video's of party's and family events. These often have a lot of very bad sound in addition to the conversations I am interested in. Is there a CSI like audio program that could separate out the conversations I want from the music and background noise that makes the thing a sonic mess??

On a related question/issue...I was watching a CSI again last night and once again they used a crappy surveillance video to find a car in the crime. They goosed the video to make the fuzzy license plate clear...does such video enhancement program exist??