In my opinion one of the best bands of the fusion era was Return To Forever. Chick Corea, Al DiMeola, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White were together what a lot of people refer to the "Beatles of Jazz". The first album I ever heard from them was Romantic Warrior which to this today is always in heavy rotation for me.

It makes me want to vomit whenever I read that term "toe-tapping," either in forums or reviews. It literally makes me cringe in intense aversion & hatred. Please share your least favorite audio cliches. PRAT? WAF?

What a find. I never knew that this place existed all this time I've lived in Upper West Side in NYC. (It's located on 72nd St. & Broadway; to the west of Broadway.) Perfect little gem of a used LP store. I couldn't believe how many records were packed into such a small space! They mainly do classical and jazz, very little or no rock. But for classical, at least, their selection was on par or better than Academy Records near Union Square. They had a VPI 17.5 there, and I suspect they do a pretty good job cleaning their records.

I'm trying to build a sub-$3000 system (not including Subwoofer) and would appreciate comments on the setup and suggestions. I'll start off by saying that I live in Hong Kong.

The system should be expected to run PS3 Blue-Ray movies, Media Center movies (Surround, sadly by Creative Labs's Xi-Fi and their horrible analog surround setup), and play music from both CD player (computer) or collection (MP3s, WMAs).

I currently have a small living room (a 10x13 feet space within a 10x18 room), but am expecting to be using this system in a larger setting in the future.

I wasn't sure if any of you local Stereophile folks would be interested but Polk Audio is hosting the annual Polkfest at the HQ in Baltimore, MD this year.

This is our 7th year of having a forum member organized event and only the second time that Polk has opened the doors to the membership and beyond. The following day is a celebration of all things audio related, from tubes to tube traps and more.

Here's a link to the information page:

Hey everyone. I am ripping my records to 24/96 files and saving them as .aif files. Sadly, there is no meta data with the files, so I have to manually select them from Windows Media Player. I would appreciate hearing from other people who are doing this sort of thing. Please tell me what file type you are using and what player to organize your library. That sort of thing.

Thanks!

Trey