My compliments to WP for a sensitive write-up of von Otter's tremendous "Terezin/Theresienstadt." Especially fine, I thought, were his thoughts on Gerhaher's rendition of Pavel Haas's "Four Songs on Chinese Poetry."

Folks,

Debate rages in both audiophile and professional audio circles about the importance of low-level artifacts such as distortion, jitter, quantization noise, and summing errors in DAW software. This article addresses the audibility of very soft artifacts, and includes Wave files you can download to discover for yourself at what volume level these artifacts can be heard.

http://www.ethanwiner.com/audibility.html

--Ethan

So Stereophile partners with Festival Son et Image in Montreal. This one is hard to swallow:

"The Show's keynote speech is being given by Monster Cable founder Noel Lee at 10am on the trade day, Thursday April 3."

Folks

I have a 28 year old phillips 7831 reciever with Boston Accoustics CR-8 speakers. I've tried upgrading the receiver over the years but nothing beats it. Now the left channel is fading in and out.

I generally listen to classical at low volume. Can anyone recommend a replacement reciever??

I dont think I need a home theater system.

Thanks

Charlie

99% of audiophiles accept expensive cables?!!!! Come on Jason, where did you come up with that number? And yes, when I first seen the AMEX commercial, it did make me smile. I have purchased stuff from MD over the years. But now that you explained that it was a "set", no wonder it looked kinda too dressy, cus' I always thought it was a warehouse. To be fair they really should do an Acoustic Sounds commercial also. I have prefered Acoustic Sounds more and more , why? Because what Chad K. has done with his recording studio, in the refurbed church is really, really impressive.

I have Nautilus 804s, some Polk outdoor patio speakers on a zone 2, a Harmon Kardon DVD/CD/SACD player, Charter digital cable (not HD), a VCR, IPOD/dock and 30-inch standard tube TV. My 75 Watt, 7.1 channel Harmon Kardon AV 635 receiver will be removed from service due to a processor malfunction. Listening room is about 12x20 feet with speakers along the wide wall facing a 9-foot leather couch and 6-foot leather coffee table, on a wood laminate/concrete slab floor mostly covered by large area rug, with 12 feet of filled book shelves along one short end of the room.

I recently obtained "Billy The Kid/Grand Canyon Suite", Morton Gould and "The Nutcracker", Antal Dorati and "Pictures At An Exhibition", Janus/Dorati. I'm not an expert on classical, but have an ever-expanding collection. I know these are considered old warhorses, but I was really impressed with the 3 channel sound quality of these older recordings/remasters.

Any thoughts, especially on other recommended titles from this Mercury issue?