Where to Invest First?

Hi all,
Okay, so I'm starting from scratch here - I've only got a PC to begin with. What is the best way for me to build an audiophile-quality digital music server? Should I invest in speakers first and foremost or on other components such as an amp? If I only have $4,000 now, how can I "get by" for the meantime, and still be investing for the future?

Thanks,
JR

Favorite Tom Waits album?

Hola.

Finally bought "Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards."

One of my favorite artists.

Which Tom Waits album is your favorite?

My top two are "Heart of Saturday Night" and "Mule Variations."

Nearly thirty years between them. That's quite a feat!

Seen him live in NorCal here and there. He should buy a bar and play every night!

bridging

first of all, I m new at the forum thing.I don t even know if im doing this right.I have a Bryston 4B.The owner of a hi-fi store told me that bridging an amp will keep me from getting a clean sound.In other words,he said amps arnt made for bridging,if you want the best sound.Any comments?

Tatum & Webster at 45 (rpm)

Tatum & Webster at 45 (rpm)

Audiophiles well know the glories of a 12-inch slab of 180-gram virgin vinyl cut for 45-rpm playback. Compared with a normal LP’s 33-1/3 revolutions per minute, the grooves on a 45 are stretched out over a wider space, allowing the stylus to track them more accurately and to give voice to the music’s minutest details. The non-‘philes among you may be shaking your heads (<I>Oh, no, Is this guy a nutball?</I>) but, believe me, it’s true. A few years back, Classic Records, Mike Hobson’s L.A.-based audiophile label, put out a series of limited-edition <I>single-sided</I> 45 rpm LPs, one album stretched out on four slabs of vinyl, each of which had grooves on one side but <I>nothing</I>, just plain black vinyl, on the other. The theory was that a perfectly flat bottom surface would couple more firmly to the turntable’s mat, eliminating the distortion of vinyl resonances. That may sound nuttier still, but, believe me, it’s true, too. (I’ve compared single-sided and double-sided 45 rpms of several albums that Hobson released in both formats—especially Sonny Rollins’ <I>Our Man in Jazz</I> and the Chicago Symphony’s performance of Prokofiev’s <I>Lt. Kije</I>, conducted by Fritz Reiner. The differences were not subtle. I value those albums as much as any in my collection, for musical and sonic reasons.)

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