http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5WRrUJu...player_embedded

I (still) have and use an old Luxman C-12 preamp with the "linear tilt" tone control - I believe they licensed it from Quad. What are your thoughts and experiences with "well done, reasonably designed" tone controls? Useful? Useless, no place in the high performance gear??

I listened to Vitus SS-101 with Wilson Maxx and Audio Research CD7. demo condition was not good but i try to explain my idea about Vitus.

Vitus is the sound of silence with great sense of ease, liquidity (absolute grain free texture) and harmonic integrity that help me to be relax in long listening term. It

I've read the various reviews in Stereophile on the Cary CD 303/300, the Ayre CX-7e and the Bryston BCD-1. All were excellent accounts and certainly grabbed my attention - and based on these reviews, all three are now on my short list for consideration. Unfortunately, I have only heard the Ayre (without the MP upgrade), which was a bit forward but astounding in its detail and vocal realism. The other two brands aren't easily found in my neck of the woods.

Sheet music, recently identified as part of a childhood creation by Mozart, was shown during a press conference held by the research department of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Mozart's momentous legacy grew Sunday as researchers unveiled two piano pieces recently identified as childhood creations by the legendary composer.

This is very nice and on the heals of the recently discovered lost Beethoven Piano Trios performed in Chicago recently.

http://www.berkeleyaudiodesign.com/

On PBS; http://television.aol.com/show/the-music-instinct-science-and-song/10517651/cast