How often do you get it, this audio ennui?

I've been out of town alot lately, and I'm starting to think about sound in some new digs, even before I have any new digs. When this happens, I don't think enough about what stuff is in the garage, mind only drifts toward what's new!

I think I am usually a faithful owner to my gear, and try to only shop when something amazing catches my ear, or some beloved piece goes to the big sound room in the sky, but every now and then...

Do you ever get the itch for no apparent reason?

What's your "interval?"

Just when you thought you'd not hear high quality recording posted online by a radio station: how's 377kbps / 44kHz 16-bit ASF (Windows Media) strike you? Listening now it sounds fantastic, much better than the FM signal from WNED-FM in Buffalo. The recording is very clean though I've heard the accompanying piano clipped a few times on peaks (well it wasn't the piano that clipped, of course). Even the applause sounds uncompressed (usually a dead giveaway). Recorded this week in the acoustically perfect Kleinhans Music Hall. The link:

Is one of the claimed "benefits"...hmmm, so I could power my entire house from this...how does it have " unrestirceted" power delivery. I guess they have outdone super condutors, physics etc. Cus' last time I've read a wire chart, certain guage wires are rated at certain "ampacitys" at certain temperature ratings. Once again, this is nonsense, audio BS, who buysinto this crap? $800 for an AC line crod? Is it even UL listed, ETL? A $3 extenstion cord is at least. Unrestricted, did they TEST it to do that? Cus' they better patent an un restricted cable, cus' no one has that!!!

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Given a choice, would you get a Cary SLP-98 preamp or the VTL 5.5? What would your choice be based on?

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Do I get to be a primadonna like Kal? I want my own trailer, a catered buffet with Chimay Blue readily available and I want fluff girls.

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I have a query regarding two musical fidelity amp set-ups and I would greatly appreciate your opinions. I am trying to decide which amp to buy at the moment. I already have the Musical Fidelity X-A1 amp and am thinking to add two monobloc X-A50's to bi-amp a set of Mission Freedoms, or alternatively I just ditch the X-A1 and buy a Musical Fidelity A3.2 or A3.5.

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