I have been listening and enjoying my RTi4's since December, but am intrigued by the Class C recommendation given the Infinity 162's to the point of buying a pair. However, I cannot audition them locally. Does anyone have comments on how Polk and Infinity compare? The Polks have a great midrange, and very respectable low end in my estimation. Are the 162's worth going for? Thanks.

I started spinning winyl a year ago,and i kinda like it.
But I've noticed that the last track of each third record that i buy have some kind of distortion.When the entire
record sounds just like new,one or two tracks sound just
horrible(mostly last track)especially in high vocals.
I've also noticed the record,which sounded perfect from
first to last track,after listening to it five or six times
i hear the same horrible sound started coming out from the
left channel now.I need help.Anybody,please?

My entire audiophile life has been spent in the pursuit of accuracy. Euphonic colorations were simply wrong, they were something to be avoided like the plague. Truth, not beauty, was the only worthy goal. If there was beauty to be heard in a recording, then the accurate system would reveal it. If there was not, the recording itself was not worthy. I believe many of us feel this way.

I'm still casting around for just the right amplification for my Linn speakers (Ninkas up front), but with a series of requirements that are probably all but incompatible: I'm really hooked on inner detail resolution, quick rhythm and pacing, black-as-night noise floor, and I prefer a slight forward lean without being harsh or grainy, great soundstage, and can't tolerate bugs or quirks or reliability problems, plus I'd prefer not having to throw anything out when making the switch to H/T. (I can't have an all-music system in a separate room, not enough space.)

Okay, so I am signing up to our collective resolution to post more on music so here goes (I may repost and brush up some pieces I posted on Amazon so apologies if you've seen them before). Contributors to this board seem to be incredibly knowledgeable, as well as having tastes spanning an amazingly broad spectrum so I tend to assume that folks have heard everything and read all the reviews. However, in reality everyone's time is finite (well, except for Todd maybe ) and I know this is not the case.

I see what I say here about quality price today.I should say better quality sound for price.

These aspects should say to you to consider to increase the money where the quality sound price is low and decrease where is high for a better sound of solution/price of the system.

cd player:
a very strange situation:the quality is not related to the price.You can give much money with low results and viceversa depending not of the mark but depending of singular product.