I just thought I would pass this along now since by the time the articles come out it will be March. Cabe Sipes (google him) is considered one of the top car customizers in the world and has been doing so for over 15 years. Well he has retired from the automobiles and has started his new home theater line of products. I spoke to him at SEMA and again on the phone a couple weeks ago and he said his website and products will launch the beginning of February.

I am using a low-end HD DVD player to play music CD's. The player's spec sheet says its internal DAC's are 24/192. I figured that'd be better than what my 'pre-amp' (Yamaha DSP-A1 a/v receiver) is likely to have, being 7 or 8 years old. (I emailed Yamaha to ask them for information about the DSP-A1's DACs's. I know from the manual that it is a '24 bit' resolution converter, but it doesn't say what the sampling frequency is.

Robert Levine in Rolling Stone.

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Hi all! I rescued a Kenwood Spectrum 890 System from the garbage complete with speakers but the turntable is missing. I put everything together (there was a bunch of manuals in the pile, thank God! which is how I knew the model) and it worked, actually it sounded wonderful at least to these simple ears. Now as it so happened there is a record store nearby that has all this vinyls and I'm wondering how it would sound. Which brings me to this forum and ask for any suggestions for a turntable.

I've got a NAD 2100 amp ( not an integrated amp - no volume control ) which I love. My preamp has died

To catch up with the times, I'm considering putting my cds on a PC, then using a usb dac to connect to the amp. But none of the reasonably priced DAC's ( e.g. stereo-link ) have any vol control.

I've googled around and seen some usb preamps designed for recording from mic's or vinyl. Would these work?

I've come across a number of ordinary CDs recently that have boasted "remastered in 24/96" ... but, if the CD is encoded in standard Red Book format, what benefit could possibly result from this?