Tweaks, the final frontier. This is the continuing journey of the audiophile, Buddha. His ongoing mission: To explore strange new tweaks. To seek out new tweak forms and tweak paradigms. To boldly tweak where no audiophile has tweaked before.

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I auditioned a pair of Paradigm Reference Studio 100s through a Rotel RC1070 preamp & Rotel RB1070 amp. I was very pleased. I am curious as to the difference powering the Paradigms through the Rotel RC1082/RB1080? Has anyone had any experience with the Rotel RC1082/RB1080? Thank you.

are tube amps better than solid state amp?

I saw a comment on AA relating to Art Dudley's December column and I wanted to see what it said, so I started a digital subscription. AFTER I made my payment, I discovered that, depending on which part of the confirming email you read, it either takes 2 weeks or 6 to 8 weeks to start a subscription. Assuming the 6-8 weeks reference is really for print, that means it takes the Circ. Dept. two weeks to send me an email with the URL where I can download my first issue. That's very strange; it only took them 5 minutes to ding my charge card.

Returning to the hobby of audio systems after a long recess, the web forums seem to offer new resources for picking systems. Unfortunately, in my city, dealers no longer exist. Yet, the combinations/permutations of available components seem to have exploded. Without a dealer, it appears very difficult to decide on the proper matching of components, interconnects and cables.