Big thanks to Joe Darcy for his heads-up on this great band. Probably easiest to describe as "thoughtful, eclectic, jangly guitar rock" in the mold of Brian Wilson, Roger McGuinn or Paddy McAloon. Here is the summary from allmusic:

Hello Guys,

I'm trying to marry the Rega Apollo and Mira3 with some well-behaving speakers.

I have some problems in finding the new M22i.

In my quest for a good speakers I came across the KEF XQ-40.

May I please ask your advice: did anybody test them?

The dealer of B&W told me: "they are made in China", with a special glitter in his eyes when he was showing the "made in England" label for B&W 704...

Thank you!

A while ago I had posted about bi-amping with the Epos M5 - I still haven't gone bi-amp, but now I have another dilemma, and hopefully you guys can help out =)

Right now I'm running the M5 with the Exposure 2010s integrated amplifier - I love the sound that this setup produces - great high/mid and controlled bass with natural crossovers. However, I'm sort of a bass-head and would like to hear more of it - my M5 delivers quality bass, but sometimes I wish it simply had more in quantity.

I'm finally upgrading my Pre-amp and Amp tomorrow. I'm ordering an Arcam AVP-700 and P1000. I'm going to be connecting the two with Nordost Red Dawn. I can't wait!

I am a noobie to high end audio systems and a friend of mine has given me a very hi end stereo system,and I have a few questions about it. All of the equipment is from the 1990's. The system consists of 2 Audio Research Classic 120's, AR DAC 1, AR LS2,Wadia CD,Etude tuner,Velodyne 18" subwoofer,Billy Bags audio stand and Hales Audio Two Signature speakers w/external crossovers. This is the most awesome system I have ever heard. My friend tells me it was about a $20,000 system in the 90's.The system was handed down to him,and he had no interest in it.

Came across this announcement at the Toronto Star of a new release by David Lanois that includes this great quote on his opinion on MP3:

I have had my REL Storm placed on the (new)carpet w/spikes for several months. The sound has been ok, but a little bit boomy for my taste. As an experiment I obtained a 16" sq. ceramic tile from Home Depot and put it under the sub.

I was thinking that the carpet and pad were adversly affecting the output by absorbing some freqs and trying to compensate, I was over driving the sub.