Hi folks,

My name is Joe. I am a self-employed man in the San Diego area who dabbles in the strange world of paranormal research in my spare time. In layman's terms, I'm a "Ghost Hunter."

After reading the issue I was wondering if this is a good choice for my situation. I will be moving into a dorm at the start of the new year and have been trying to come up with a good system to put into mine, and my roommates new room. Right now I have a vintage system consisting of a sansui power amp and two JBL 4312a studio monitors. I have liked the warm sound they produce, but also wouldn't mind even more clarity. In this new setting however space will be limited and having less equipment would be a bonus.

Here's a bunch of videos.

Good Times Bad Times
Stairway
Kashmir
Good Quality Black Dog Clip

Thoughts?

I have dCs Elgar Plus, Purcell and Verdi going into McIntosh MC501 which go to JMLab Utopia Nova. It presently sounds a bit analytical and dry though extremely accurate. I also have a Levinson 26S pre-amp but my dCs does not sound as good through this. In NYC Lyric, Sound by Singer and Stereo Exchange all suggest that I will get more bloom through a pre-amp. Two questions:

1) Is it true that I will get more bloom through the right pre-amp?

Stereophile reviewed the VTL 6.5 in the July issue. Yet, it's not listed in the 2007 Recommended Components. Does that mean that the 6.5 is not recommended or was just an oversight?

Thanks

In his review of the Oppo 970HD universal player Wes Phillips decoded the Oppo's coax TOSLINK signal with a Slim Devices Transporter when he was playing SACDs, claiming the audio was on par with his Ayre transport. What's up with that? I thought SACD players don't output digital signals.