http://www.nonesuch.com/store/all-artists/vinyl

I bought a lot of LPs last night. Also, free shipping!

One of my favorite record labels, long live ECM:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/arts/music/27eicher.html?ref=arts&pagewanted=all

I'm aware that Pandora is 64Kbps AAC or something like that. Does anyone know if they're "enhancing" the signal in any way? Expansion, adaptive EQ, de-essing?

As a faithful 14B SST owner I could not of been more upset with MF for his unflattering review of the 7B SST2 in the January 2010 issue. He tried to be flattering but in the end it only ended up being insulting.

Since seeing the ad in the latest issue that the Buyer's Guide was on newsstands now, I've visited two national chain bookstores on three occasions and a couple of other stores and none of them have it. Has the publication been delayed or has shipping them out been delayed? I'd really like to get one but don't want to pay the high shipping and handling from Stereophile. Ideas?

Is anyone familiar with this format? I stumbled across several of these discs on Elusive disc. Of course, while the recording may be high-rez, it's still a red book cd.

One thing that never seems to be discussed here or in magazines is product consistancy.

We are dealing with pretty small differences in sound quality with the high end units, if one component in their manufacture is faulty or out of spec this can have a massive effect on the sound quality. An out of spec resistor, a leaky cap, a poor P-N junction on an op amp there are numerous possibilities.

I beleive this is a real issue, ive bought/auditioned units and experienced bad sound quality when i should have had great sound quality.

Anyone with experience with this code?

Vortex Box web site

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