It was nice to read the follow up on the players from Ayre in the latest number!

However, it was a pity though that the follow up were not mentioning anything about the new upgrade "MP" that's about to come. At least when I saw the content page, I had these hopes at first that it should be around the MP-ugrade!?
This also since I read on the Stereophile CES-Blog that it should not be a "subtle" upgrade.

Hi,

I am about to take delivery of a brand new pair of B & W 685 speakers. I read somewhere about breaking them in by playing low level back ground music for up to 50 hours.

Does anyone know about breaking in speakers, and can give some guidelines?

thanks.

The Crutchfield catalog is promoting "Hi-Fi 2.0". Saying that trends towards looks and convenience have robbed folks of good sound over the years, and they want to promote attention to higher quality, less compression, speaker placement, etc. Nice to see that from a company that has helped create and feed the market for the opposite. But never mind, it is a positive thing for them to do. http://www.crutchfield.com/app/Promo/Product/hifi.aspx

Considering a PrimaLuna tube cd player. It has a high output impedance. Understand how this works when dealing with preamps/amps. How does this work with a transformer based passive line stage like my Sonic Euphoria? I know of two tube units that will not work with the transformer line stage (EAR phono stage and Eastern Electric phono). EAR goes unstable. Don't think this is the same as bad impedance mismatch. Should I avoid all tube sources with this line stage?
just trying to understand the technical side of this.
thanks
barondla
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They bumped that number to $1.3 trillion when interest is included. For info, that is about half of ALL the revenues we get from all sources for all programs in a year! I remember last years piddly $125 billion rebate program and all the angst. Today that is the "Good old Days"...