I'm interested in putting together a good sounding setup on the cheap. the further south of $500 the better.

I'm thinking integrated stereo tube amp and a pair of bookshelf speakers, but the options are quite frankly overwhelming and I feel like I'm not getting anywhere in the selection process.

Any advice/recommendations would be appreciated.

I don't know if this has been posted before.
Please enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741

last month we were told we would hear more about the great integrated amp/cd player system. can you tell me when, waiting with baited breath.

everytime I post, this stupid screen comes up saying "you are about to be taken back to the forum" and the option comes up asking me if I want to view my post.

cant we get rid of that stupid screen? just have it go straight back to the thread?

Soundesign was my reality, but Krell was in my dreams. It was the early 1980s. I researched and made up lists of equipment and riddled out how long I would have to save the two dollars an hour I was making before I could afford to own the objects of my acoustic desire. I soon dismissed the whole idea.

$7.99 on release day last week for the new CD "Swoon" by Silversun Pickups. Definite "best of 2009" material.

Got some Monster Cable interconnects from audioadvisor - probably this line of cables are discontinued now - interlink 400MKII ($18 for 1 meter pair) and 300mkII ($15 for 1m pair).
Can't afford not to buy them - that's less than what you will sometimes pay for generic or Rat Shack cables, yes?

I connected a cdp and the preamp with the 400's and I think I hear a microscopic improvement over the previous cheap interconnects. Can't complain.

Everybody loves Monster Cable, right? (that's just to poke a stick into the cage, for fun...)

I normally loathe all things rap(or as the defenders of that faith say, HIPHOP ) but this guy is entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya7WyYESkH0

Sorry to bring this up again (not really), but on December 23, 2008 in this now-locked thread:

http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=55469&an=0&page=3#Post55469

Ted Denney wrote the following promise: