We need to start thinking about setting aside a little bit of proceeds from Stereophile Magazine so we can have our own retirement home. We can pick pick pick at each other all day. Short sheet DUPs bed. Yell down the hall, "TURN THAT SHIT DOWN! ITS TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!" "WHAT?"

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I just bought a new DAC and had it hooked up with Kimber PBJ interconects. The sound was very good and much like I was used to. I got to experimenting with my old CD player, comparing the old system with the new. I plugged the PBJ in that system while I broke out an old transparent interconnect for the new DAC and found a difference I had not heard before with cable shifts on the same front ends. While I had experienced more clarity in the highs and lows with different cables I had never found a soundstage change.

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With all the current auto manufacturers competing with each other for business we have seen a rash of high end car systems. Names include Linn, Naim, B&O, B&W to name a few, has any hifi publication done a serious review of these systems ?

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I'm not a home theater guy. But I have a general interest question: With the proliferation of LCD and plasma TV screens, are magnetically shielded drivers in speakers necessary anymore? Most speaker makers still seem to use some sort of shielding.
Just wondering...

I just noticed that Steinway, of piano manufacturing fame, is making really high end speakers under the name Steinway Lyngdorf. The press release stated that they released their first commercial products in febraury of this year. i was just curious as to if anyone has seen any of the reviews on these speakers, or have heard them. while they are totally out of my price range, i thought it was interesting that the manufacturers of such great piano design have entered the wonderful world of loudspeakers. just thought it to be an interesting thing to bring up.

My stereo system (Music Hall 25.2CD/Creek Destiny integrated) currently sits within a 26" x 26" space in our built-in bookcase. Right now, my components are stacked on top of each other, with the cable DVR on top due to the large amount of heat it produces. This is certainly not optimum from many standpoints, not least of which is that the components do not have any "breathing room" and the Destiny in particular gets hotter than I like.

I would like to get better input than is available from the headphone jacks common to some cd players and intergated amps without buying an expensive headphone amp. Is there a safe way to connect the output of a cd player or the pre outs of my amp to headphones? I remmeber that transformers were once used to connect an amp's speaker output terminals to headphones, but this method is no longer in use.