I have been reading a good bit of silly justification for the high price of audio gear and cables in terms of the gold or silver used in the unit. This, to be charitable, is BS. Here are some basic stats on gold and silver.

Pure gold sells at under $840 a troy ounce
Pure silver at under $11 an ounce

Your home IS your castle: After years of leniency, top judge says burglars must face stiff sentences

By Matthew Hickley

Lord Judge

Warning: The Lord Chief Justice has stressed burglary of a home must always be treated as a 'serious criminal offence'

Burglars must expect stiff punishment for violating homes, says Britain's top judge.

The Lord Chief Justice yesterday urged the courts to impose harsh sentences on thieves who target vulnerable victims, steal irreplaceable sentimental items or terrify residents.

Hello:

I'm in the process of putting together a HT system and want to get a decent set of speakers that I can use for both classical music ( I have a lot of CD: orchestral and piano as well as a lot of LPs ) and also videos and movies. My budget is about $2K for the speaker system. Will this be a good choice for such a system?

Thanks for the feedback on this,
Jhon

OK, finally got to spend some time with those clear 45RPM Classic Records pressings.

First off, I think back in the day, my

I really like RD's article this month!
One thing I got out of it is that just because one person doesn

Another thread got me thinking about this (although I've given it consideration before), and I didn't want to hijack it so here it goes:

Im looking for an entry level, but good cd player...
-Here is a list of a few players I found on online auctions.

NAD c520
Rotel RCD-971
California Audio Labs DX-1

The ROTEL is probably going to end up going out of my price range but the other two I would be comfortable purchasing.

The NAD has a 20bit DAC and some decent specs but I have read that the disc trays tend to fail on these units often.

I listened to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Mobile Fidelity labs today and it was like listening to it for the first time. I heard things I never heard before and was reminded just how good an album this was/is. I recommend this version to anyone it's just amazing

...that we all have in common sounds?

I was sitting and listening tonight thinking it might be cool to see how others might describe what they hear with the same recording. Comparing where in the imaging a certain sound happens, location of performers, etc...

Example: If we all have Kind of Blue, does the trumpeter sound spitty at the start?

Is Miles' trumpet centered, or slightly right?

Where is the piano?

Or, maybe for something like Dark Side of the Moon, what do you hear and where is it and where does it go?

When I turn off my preamp my speakers pop. To stop this I have been turning off the speaker "a" section on my amp before I turn off the preamp.

-Right now I have the Amp plugged into one of the switched inputs on the back of my pre. Is this bad? should my amp be plugged directly into its own outlet?

Is there anything I can do to prevent the "pop" when I turn off my preamp?