Steinmetz, Tesla, all did every way of conducting electricty, Tesla even had it wireless, your's is what now? When you build either teh time machine or transporter, then please mention it. Until then, why bother? It's been done

I was wondering if you guys would offer some opinions. I'm mulling some speaker upgrades as you know and this is what I'm thinking.

Ultimately, I want to get the Avantgarde Duos on Audiogon, which run about $7500-$9000. It would take me quite some time to save my pennies to be able to afford them. I figure about a year and a half.

Here's what I'm thinking as the interim solution.

a) Do nothing, enjoy what I have and save the money to get the Avantgardes

b) Get NHT 3.3 as an interim solution. They're better than what I currently have and worth the $1500

To make a long story short I decided 2 weeks ago to enter the world of high end audio. This all sprung from a desire to dust of the old vinyl. I haven't even bought my first turntable yet and today I found an old Altec "voice of the theater" cabinet...It's nice. speaker system is model 820a. Cabinet is 821a. My question: What do I do with this thing? Right now I'm playing mono mixed CD's like the Beach Boys and old Phil Spector stuff. I know I will never find and could not afford another one of these. How do I listen to stereo recordings on it?

If you want to avoid that "dorm" look storing 1,000+ CDs can be difficult. Does anyone store their collection--or a majority of it--inside CD albums? That eliminates the space hungry jewel case. I know albums consume less space, but are they practical? Please comment.

I currently have a Technics SL-D2 direct drive turntable with a Ortofon cartridge I paid about $69 for at The Neddle Doctor I forget the model, connected to my Denon AVR-1906 receiver through an old Marantz integrated I'm using as a phono stage. My speakers are B&W DM220s. It is a humble set up but it serves me well. The Marantz is being moved to another room for other duties and I am planing on investing about $500 into my playback system.

I very rarely tend to browse my music library in iTunes, (which I use on Windows XP for ripping/tagging CDs), since I mostly browse/play back with either foobar2000 (headphone system) or Sonos (big-rig). However while fixing the tags on a disc I had ripped the other day I noticed something very strange.

Lots of tracks had a little '!' icon in the left-hand column of the library view and if I tried to play them I got the message 'The song XYZ could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?'

Telarc does blind A/B to checkout some new stuff, why is it not used at StereoPhile? Bet it would show just how goofy some claims are. Wood blocks, overpriced TT's, giant changes due to a piece of wire. DBT, it works on drugs, recording pros, why not at teh magazine? http://www.digitalaudio.dk/Press_telarc.htm

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