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Jan,

People living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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Alex,

People with no moral compass should be stoned.

How long are you going to keep this up, you little, pathetic baby. I can sit here and insult you forever, Matter o'fact, I find you quite easy to insult.

Get over it, Alex.

Interesting read:

http://www.tempoelectric.com/caps.htm

Hi

Just a thought to throw around.

My initial thought would be piano

Any others ?

Alan

It has finally got the better of me.

Ever since my first high-end system bought 15 years ago, I got it home and the left channel was louder than the right. I traced it to the amplifier, took it back to the dealer and funnily enough it was perfect at his place. He was good enough to exchange it for a new one anyway, but when I got it home, exactly the same thing!

Check out teh list of companies that do stuff in audio...quite the list http://www.aes.org/events/125/exhibitors/exhibitors.cfm

Hello everyone. As I have indicated on my previous turntable discussions I am returning to the audio world and trying to piece together a nice system that will deliver a soundstage my maggies will gladly reproduce. I know I am preaching to the choir, however, I am going to need some power to deliver to the maggies.

What is the best stand alone option for converting LPs to digital format nowadays? I can't bring my turntable and records to the office, so I'm stuck with the iPod.

I'd like to just be able to record straight to a hard drive and then mess with everything later. I don't have a desktop computer (and don't want one) so any soundcard I have is going to sub-par - so I'd rather not have to use it at all.

I listen to a lot of music and solidly believe that a lot of very expensive audio gear really does produce audibly superior sound. I have never had the pleasure of listening to a real high end system, the $50K or more amplifier, the $40K speakers, $30K CD player or turntable, $5K speaker wires or interconnects, exotic tweaks, and wierd esoteric odds and ends, but I have heared $10K systems put together well and can say with some conviction that they sound vastly better than the Best Buy audio system or, God help us, some Ipod MP3 system.