i heard the most amazing cover of American Tune on one of the NPR affilliates here tonight as I was driving home from the laundromat... it was sparse, just piano , voice, drums..the singer was a real soulful type sort of like..i dont know.. ray lamontangne and mayer without the cheese..amazing vocal chords on the guy whoever he was..

did a you tube search..darrel scott, sounds sorta like it but not soulful enough, not enough vocal acrobatics..glen phillips cover is whiny....forget indigo girls.

wasnt paul simon either..

who was it??

Greetings!
C'mon down! The weather's terrific!
If any of you are in the neighborhood, Buddha and I will be once again hosting our humble endeavor, NFS Audio, at the 2010 THE Show in the fabulous Flamingo next week (Jan 7-10). I just completed this year's batch of Limoncello and I am still sober enough to wright about it!
I even made a small batch of Orangecello in honor of the name of the super-secret prototype speaker that we will be listening to...!

Now for the Other Things that happened in the 00's....

Every decade has innovation - the 90's had the Genesis Digital Lens, TacT Millennium and PS Audio Power Plant. But the 00's will go down as the MOST INNOVATIVE period in the history of high-end audio. Divided into new components, innovative ideas and new tweaks :

New Components

-Hard-disk playback / Memory drive.
The right way to drive digital ?

-Master-clock generators.
Expensive, dedicated clocks for digital signals. But can we make a better clock in the DAC ?

How did you ring in the New Year, music-wise? And what's on the turntable/radio/cd player/server today?

I have a thick, miserable head cold, so it was Doom's 'Born Like This' and Johnny Cash's 'Now There Was A Song' dayside and then an early bed before I ever got to the Booker T. box set. I even slept thru' the ball drop, which the missus and the dogs woke up for.

Today will be Andrew Hill's 'Verona Rag,' and maybe Mos Def.

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Stereophile Community,

I am now several weeks into researching the purchase of my first real sound system so I thought it would be appropriate to post on this section of the forums. I am on a relatively tight budget judging from what I have seen suggested on other threads on this site. My current budget is capped at around 600$ (I am a current college student and this is already pretty pricy for me).

Hi all,

I was on a trip to New York a few months ago, and made an afternoon pilgrimage to Lyric Hi Fi. Upon arrival I ended up listening to a variety of speakers, and eventually came upon the Nola Micro Grand Reference.

I wanted to alert the Forum readership, and hope someone at Stereophile takes a look at them soon - I'd be interested in reading a comprehensive review. I compared them to a pair of Sonus Faber Amati Anniversarios in the same room, and to my surprise, found the half-pint Nolas far more compelling.

If you were starting from scratch and did not own ANY DRM-ed AAC audio files what software library player (on the desktop PC) would you use?

I've heard Apple's iTunes is the best music interface (on the computer).
Now first and foremost I am starting my library and down the road will purchase a portable music player.
Okay I am about to start converting my CD library for the very first time.