Picked mine up at Borders today.

I know this isn't completely appropriate for this forum, but I have a feeling many people will have an answer here.

I've been wanting to change the type of guitar strings I use for a long time, but never really had a reason why. I've used D'Addario .095s on a '99 American Fender Stratocaster for the longest time, and I'm ready to switch but I dont know the differences between strings.

Can anyone tell me why I should leave D'Addario, choose another? Ernie Ball? etc.? I can of course try it out, but I want to hear an opinion to steer decision-making process a little.

24-bit output

Beats Pass and even an older Hafler (I use NEW AVA ckts in all my Hafler P500's) with 800V/uS slew http://www.proaudioreview.com/pages/s.0025/t.9447.html

Speaker impedance always seems to be specified in binary orders of magnitude; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 ... can it go higher ... 64, 128 ... why is it binary? what does it signify in the real world in terms of a speakers sensitivity or sound? Or is it even relevant?

AIX Records has been recording and delivering what is aguably the best quality audio (96 kHz, 24-bit) in multi-channel DVD-Audio format for a few years now and is now making their content available for purchase and download through iTrax.com. A wide range of formats including mp3, dolby digital, DTS, WMA Pro, WMA lossless and PCM are offered in stereo, stage and audience mixes.

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superb recording ! The title is : "Best Audiophile Voices"
and the label is : "Premium Records XRCDPR 27901" It is recorded in xrcd2 format.

Per a previous topic, I bought a Teac CD recorder (model TECDRW880), mostly for making CD-R backups from my LP's and cassettes. Goodness, I think it is sounding better as a CD player than my Marantz bargain-audiophile one (several years old, model 63-SE or something like that) or a Sony SACD player when used on CD's. Could this modest $300 CD Recorder with no high-end cred really be superior? - it is newer than my other stuff, though it's been on the market for quite a while.