My CD transport (EMM Labs) conked out last week, and since it's gone for repairs, I've been listening exclusively to LPs. Yesterday, 16-yr old son comes over and asks me if I can show him how to use the record player! So far, his listening has been exclusively through his iPod or through his laptop (mp3), and he has never been curious about operating the CD player/DAC. Any of my CDs he liked, he ripped on his laptop and wouldn't care about the hifi.

I have 3 Lascalas across the front. My reciever has lots of different modes, 5ch stereo, Neo 6, DPL 2 etc. It seems that I like plain stereo better than any other format. I Use these for surround, I also have Klipschorns in the rear for surrounds but it seems for music 2 ch stereo is best. Does anyone here prefer any other format except stereo for music?

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Has anyone ever heard that tube amps will self destruct if powered up with no load?

Many good recommendations by JA and other authors refer to online downloads from HD Tracks.
I find that it makes sense as online music is probably (and sadly) the music format of the future.
However, HD tracks sells only within USA. I am in Canada and cannot get these interesting music

Hi Everyone, I'm a huge Louis fan but have trouble deciding what albums to purchase because there are just so many. I know some of them while being great in the music sense, aren't so great in the recording sense. Louis and The Good Book is a prime example of that, excellent music but not the greatest recording.

What are considered to be the best Louis Armstrong CD/SACD/XRCD discs in terms of sound quality and music?

Thanks a ton.

- Lukas
Audio Junkies

Working on a related project, wondering what, if anything, people have on top of their speakers?

Also, are those sonic or decorative?

Example:

My La Scalas...

I also experiment with objects behind my Apogee Grands, but I have no photo link that's current.

Worst figures since Reagan had been in office for two years.

Two years!

You have to go back to 1975 to find the next highest rate.

Who the Hell was President then?

6 years into Nixon/Ford!

Gotta go all the way back to the Great Depression if you want top Reagan's unemployment rates, and Franklin was busy cleaning up Hoover's mess.

I recently bought a Conrad-Johnson PV12 preamp to drive my Jolida JD801 as a power amp. I've been quite impressed with it in this application. The Jolida integrated works really well in this application as a power amp, and the sound is detailed, musical, and very easy to listen to.

On a lark Monday night, I was browsing Audiog and did a search for Conrad Johnson. A C-J Premier 11A power amp had just been listed and the seller was reasonably local. Today he brought it by for me to audition in my own system, and well...you can guess how that turned out...I snagged it.