I have recently acquired a Raysonic CD168 player. I replaced the tubes that came with it with some NOS tubes. I'm elated with the results I'm getting in my system with this fantastic player.

Anyone have experience with the CD238 or CD228?

http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html?mc_cid=698b599f54&mc_eid=eda656c884

I just noticed this the other day on Stereopile features.

Are ionizers still controversial?

Scroll down the blog for comments on the article.

http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/powering_the_ionizer/

~ Cheerio

A while back, I linked to the gramophone.net site where ALL of the magazine's past issues (back iinto 1920's!) are archived and PDF'd. This is obviously a boon for record collectors, etc., for checking out contemporary reviews of historical recordings...

But I've been discovering that Gramophone used to have a pretty active equipment reviews! Very fun to read & relatively thorough, especially compared to the 3-4 paragraphs they devote nowadays at the back, which are nothing more than adverts, really.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Things will not seem all that unique until you get about 1/3-1/2 way through. Then it will begin to 'come home' as to what he is proposing and he has actualized for everyday use. Simplification and perfection of this sort of technology, if pursued, cannot be more an 5 years away.

Quoting Art Dudley from Listening #78 (June 2009)

I often worry that my approach to domestic audio is thoroughly, irreconcilably, and altogether unhappily out of whack with everyone else's. In my case, however, aging has made the problem worse, not better.

First: It seems that, the older I get, the less tolerance I have for conspicuous consumption.

Second: I firmly believe that home music systems should exist for all the people who live in the homes that have them. The fantasy paradigm that has dominated our hobby for so long

Audiobook on vinyl. I just found out about this through the Stereophile twitter page, FYI. Which breaks news just a wee bit faster than Michael Fremer.

Audiophile siblings,

My parents recently moved house for the first time in over 25 years and my father (now a sprightly 79) decided this was as good an excuse as any to invest his 'final' stereo. Good to know the old man still has his hifi mojo!