Creek Classic amp + Evo cdp, weird?

Currently I'm using NAD amp + cdp and Epos M5 and going to upgrade the amp + cdp.

I have audited both Creek's Evo and Classic combo (amp + cdp), The Classic combo definitely sounds better than Evo (in imaging, sound stage, clarity, bass, etc). But the Classic cdp was a little bit too laid-back or soft to my taste (when listen to hard rock).

So, would it be weird to get the Classic amp + Evo cdp? Consider Classic amp costs double than the Evo cdp.

PSB Alpha 1's vs. Monitor Audio BR1

While visiting my local audio merchant, I was told in no uncertain terms that the Monitor Audio BR1's are better speakers than the PSB Alpha 1's. In fact, he feels so strongly about it, he does not carry PSB product because he feels it is inferior to Monitor Audio's line.

Is this true? I can't seem to locate much in the way for review for the BR1's

Can anyone compare the PSB Alpha 1's vs. Monitor Audio BR1?

Thanks!

Is It the Economy, Stupid?

Is It the Economy, Stupid?

<B>We get letters department:</B> Here at <I>Stereophile</I>, we talk to people in the high-end audio industry all the time, and we frequently get fascinating emails from movers and shakers within the industry. This week we received one that got us thinking about outsourcing manufacturing and how it could affect high-end consumers.

Destroyed by fire!

Hello,

My A/V Gear was destroyed in a house fire. I managed to get my wife and twin 6 year old sons out of harms way and then put out the blaze. I injured myself in the process from burns to both forearms and compressed lumbar spinal vertabrae.

Further, I have been disabled since 1994 due to back/spinal problems and literally am unable to sit in a sweet spot for extended listening at home. I usually move around the room quite a bit, lay down on floor, lay down on sofa, lean against walls or stand depending on my back pain.

Parasound Halo JC 2 line preamplifier John Atkinson, March 2009

Parasound Halo JC 2 line preamplifier John Atkinson, March 2009

My very first review of a preamplifier, for British magazine <I>Hi-Fi News & Record Review</I> in May 1984, was of the Audio Research SP-10. In my opening to that review, I wrote that, "more than any other component," a preamplifier "should approximate to the late <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/121503walker">Peter Walker</A>'s 'Straight Wire with Gain.'" By this I meant that a preamplifier should not be in the business of effecting dramatic changes, and in any case, dramatic changes are not the kind that prove to be of lasting value. However, I also wrote back then that what I became increasingly aware of while using the SP-10 "was the fact that 'neutrality' is a positive virtue rather than just an absence of aberration."

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