Wilco-(The Album)
Great Lake Swimmers- Lost Channels
Dex Romweber - Ruins of Berlin
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Tell Em What Your Name Is
John Doe & the Sadies - Country Club
Obits - I Blame You
Dan Auerbach - Keep it Hid
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done my Brother
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
Buddy & Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
Willem Maker - New Moon Hand
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Vetiver - Tight Knit

In his review Michael Fremer wrote: "at some point soon the floodgates will open, and you'll be able to download hi-rez digital files of all your analog favorites."

I will be thrilled if Mr. Fremer's prediction becomes reality in the near future. I would purchase considerably more albums if all recordings (new and old) offered high resolution downloads; and a really great audio hardware delivery system for $15K or less.

SOX

very handy, and according to the white paper, much faster/efficient than the PPPS version.

set mine up earlier... everything being resampled ditheredto 32bit/192

(I posted this question earlier--did it get deleted for some reason???) How does it make sense to compare heavy-gauge Naim speaker wire to Radio Shack 16-gauge dinky-wire? Why not at least compare the Naim to zipcord of the same gauge. It's not too surprising that 16-gauge wire doesn't give you great sound...

Post deleted by Bob Stern

This is my first post on Stereophile !

I am shopping for an entirely new system. Right now my only audio source is a ipod connected to a pair on Sennheiser 555. I do enjoy music and I feel that investing a bit in a audio system would be rewarding.

I have a 2000$ budget for a DAC, an amp & speakers. The music is exclusively coming from a pc with, among other things, flac-encoded files.

I would really prefer to go for a cheap sound card with a toslink/spdif output and move the processing into either a dac or an amp with a dac.

Rega Planar 3 Hifi Audiophile Turntable - $400
"An older Planar 3 that hasn't seen a whole lot of use and is in great shape. The cartridge definitely still has some good life on it."

Is this a good deal for $400?

I liked the review a lot, especially the comparison with the Boulder integrated, which costs a chunk less than the CTH8550, although still pricey. Thought WP handled it well, the high price issue, voicing his preferences conscientiously and without being snarky.

What section of Stereophile do you turn to first each month? Are there parts that you don't read at all?
Just wondering. Thanks.