Rotel or Cambridge Audio Amp

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The Entry Level
Submitted by Rabbitman on

Greetings from Downunder! Looking at upgrading my amp to either the Rotel RA 05 or the Cambridge Audio Azure 640a. Both are 2 channel intergrated amps which will need to be friends with my exsisting NAD CD player (I think it's the Bee320 from about 4 years ago) and Monitor Audio BR3 floor standers (5 years old. Any input would be much appreciated

SALSA MEANS SOUL 1: The Mother-Effing Mega-Mix

SALSA MEANS SOUL 1: The Mother-Effing Mega-Mix

Oct 18, 2007

The casual interest soon transformed into an addiction and an obsession. Does <i>obsession</i> come before <i>addiction</i>, or after? I'm not sure. Either way, the salsa didn't seem to mind. It started in early August with two albums: <i>Siembra</i> by Ruben Blades and <i><a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/la_gran_fuga/">La Gran Fuga</a></i> by Willie Colon. These two led me to several others which led me to more still. I read one pretty crappy Hector Lavoe biography, sent dozens of fiery e-mails to my family in Puerto Rico, devoured tons of liner notes, and watched a gazillion YouTube videos. I've now collected over 20 albums (all on CD), have lured one uncle into sending me rare and classic songs from his library of MP3s, coerced another into donating to my cause his entire LP collection (we'll see about that), and uncovered an entire world of really deep, incredibly hot tracks. The addiction is not fading.

Different insulation this month!!

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Cables
Submitted by CECE on

In the "other" magazine Tara is selling AIR now as the way to go, previous science of the month had vacuum, didn't it, now how can both ends of the atmospheric spectrum deliver the sonic marvels claimed by this mfg? And they tagged made in U.S.A., could that be true maybe or.......didn't they get snagged for moving labels, wonder if they also mess up when they put teh directioanl arrows on them cables, and people are listening backwards!!

The Sandbox

The Sandbox

Oct 18, 2007

I read <I>Slate</I> primarily to catch my colleague Fred Kaplan's "War Stories" column, but whenever I read Fred, I also go to Garry Trudeau's "The Sandbox," a milblog that allows military personnel stationed in Iraq and Afganistan to "vent, rhapsodize, and [inform] the folks on the home front . . . what is going on from their point of view."

Completely new audio cables-different method of conduction.

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by CECE on

Magic cables are always on teh front covers of audio selling magzines, always another "breakthrough"!!!! Physics is always being redone in audio selling. Why did it take you 20 years? and all you did was a piece of wire? Esssh Bill Gates made $100 BILLION and lost $60 in 20 years!!! Now why is YOUR piece of wire any different than the previous breakthrough? and to think, all the labs at Philips, GE, Siemns NIST, an dso many others, missed this one. Are you the next Bill Gates? Nobel prize for something, probably not, how much is this magic list price?

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