I just recently found how amazing vinyl can sound on a road trip I took with a few friends and heard the true quality that I was missing from a record in a small ma pop restaurant.

Since then, I have been hunting down records for songs that I love (sam cooke, nina simone, delfonics, cooke, redding, sinatra,and newer artists etc etc) and am extremely excited to hear them and feel all that I've been missing.

Unfortunately, I am clueless, and hate the idea of posting this thread because the amount of these generic 'help me' threads must be staggering.

I got a new pair of Pinnacle Black Diamond BD-1000 speakers. I don't know much about these speakers, but they were free so I figured they'd make a good replacement for my Infinity OVTR3 speakers that have 50% cracked and busted speaker cones. I was right, the BD-1000's do sound a lot better than my busted Infinity speakers.

I hadn't seen this discussed, and since it seems to be a clich

Once in awhile I go to www.cdjapan to purchase some high quality Japanese CD's at a better price than on Amazon. Recently I have been seeing this:

Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD players).

Does anyone know about this and is it really better than standard CD's?

Want to try out this brand! Any happy users in here?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28808317/

The Top 5 Rock Songs Based on Shakespeare's Plays

1-"Hamlet (Dog Eat Dog in Denmark)"-Richard Thompson
2-"(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet"-The Reflections
3-"King Lear's Blues"-John Simon
4-"Macbeth"-John Cale
5-"Romeo had Juliette"-Lou Reed

As far as I know Power amps consume a lot of power and u really need to feed them their diet to get the best out of them,but interestingly many of the manufacturers don't provide that info on their brochures, so It makes me wonder just how many people end up buying components they wont be able to feed properly and the reviewers also omit this in their reviews.so I've made a rule of thumb that class A amps consume about 4 times as their output power where as class AB will need about half as that.So the 4800 Watts of my Ac line if only dedicated to my power amps, would feed about 1200 watts o

Somehow the join in my VPI turntable belt managed to slip it's glue join after 5 years or so of use. Having failed to get the Australian VPI importer to answer any of my emails about a replacement I emailed VPI in the US. I received an immediate answer with the offer to mail me a new belt free of charge.
It arrived one week later and turns out to sound way better than the stiffer original one. I don't want to start a debate here about why that may be the case but the new belt is thinner and a lot more elastic than the original.