Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I'm curious about the format of the digital Stereophile. I have a paper subscription, but was thinking about adding a digital subscription because I do a lot of work travel and it would be nice to be able to access the magazine on the road (when I've stupidly left the magazine behind).

Is it published as a .pdf? Or is it some other form of electronic document? The reason I ask is that ideally I'd like to be able to access it with my iPod Touch, and .pdf would work for this.

Thanks!

I am a longtime Folding @ Home participant, so I was thrilled to see the
SETI Distributed Computing project

ive been on for a while. Check it out, join up!

Just heard that Jim Thiel has passed away. RIP Jim...

As a general rule, are Pinnacle speakers worth it? (Yes, I get the overreach of the question.)

I don't see them on many 'best of' lists, but the occasional comment I run across seems pretty approving.

tks,

s.

I have never had a decent stereo sytem, and darn it I deserve one! I can really only spend about $500-700 dollars though. I have the opportunity to buy a used Onkyo TX-8511 receiver $65. It works fine, is this a decent receiver? Or should I just buy a new one? I thought I could spend about $500 on cd player and speakers. Should I get better speakers or cd player? am I just being cheap to only spend that much or can I build a decent system within that budget?

Romantica!