Okay everyone. Being a newbie I have now collected (with a lot of pain and cursing) a little money for my starter system. I have about $2300 which I can stretch to about $3000 if the upgrades are worth the money. However, since I am totally new, I do not know where to begin. I am okay with buying used gear, but here in Pakistan where I live there are no shops with used hi-fi gear, and very few with new entry level gear which is way overpriced compared to US or UK costs.

my windows xp computer's cd drive just died. as this was going to become my music server are any particular cd drives better than others? also any special sound card for connection to musical fidelity cd-pre24 and powered quads for my office?

My friend Stew and I visited DUP a few weeks ago and we were very impressed with the sound of his system. However, DUP did everything wrong: he fed one preamp into another, used cheap cables, employed all kinds of crazy equipment, so we decided to check out the Legacy Whispers at a dealer using good equipment and better controlling the listening environment.

Why do so few CDP's have digital inputs? Are they expected to change this in light of more servers needing a DAC?
I know there must be many others in the situation I find myself in now. I want to upgrade my CDP in the next year, and have also set up my PC as a server recently. The server is just using an M-audio PCI card since I viewed it as proof-of-concept before spending real money.

Looks suspiciously like Dr. Strangelove?

Mein F

Hi

In my TV setup ive just upgraded to a Onkyo 875 receiever and playstation for Blu Ray. Has anyone got any direct exeprience of using the Oppo for Multichannel HDMI playback from SACD & DVD-A.

Im trying to decide if its worth buying an Oppo or just stick with my older multiformat player as a PCM input into my Quad CDP 2 in my two channel system.

Thanks

Alan

I'm trying to find someone who can repair or assist me in repairing a Kyocera R-661 receiver. The left channel seems to go on & off (mostly off lately.) I took a chance and bought a small septate amp thinking it was the amp. That didn't work, so I know it must be something simple in the pre-amp area. (I had the same problem with the separate amp hooked up.) Also, anyone with access or info on a service manual for this model. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks!