For those of you tired of arguing with DUP, there's a big objectivist/subjectivist battle going on at Boing Boing's gadget blog, which started with a debate over Furutech's LP demagnetizer and has now veered into the James Randi and ABX testing trope.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/21/furutech-dfv1-lp-vin.html

This is all subjective and down to personal "Hifi" resume - but would be fun to find you top 10 turkeys

comes from a mix of science with personal observation and experience.

1. Linn Isobarik (Ice-brick as I refer to mine) Linn forgot about Angular frequency= Radians per second and the density per unit area = the maximum permittivity of free space

I'm not sure why it took so long, but I finally got around to buying The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds on cd. To my surprise, the cd actually has both the original mono and the whole album remixed in stereo. According to the liner notes, "the stereo version was created, with Brian Wilson's approval, to give the listener a different aural experience, and it was originally presented in 1997 on The Pet Sounds Sessions Box Set."

I'm just starting the migration from the usual Sony/Yamaha/Panasonic consumer stuff to what I hope will be a real, albeit entry level, listening environment.

I've already made my move to an NAD C372 integrated amp, and now I'm looking for suggestions for speakers to replace my current Boston Acoustic VR2's.

The "music room" is a 15' X 25' carpeted areas with a vaulted ceiling, a sofa and love seat and a few pictures on the walls. My listening habits are about 45% classical, 35% 60's, 70's and 80's rock, and 20% country/folk/everything else. Source is CD's exclusively

http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/LoudspeakersandRoomsPt2.pdf

http://www.prosoundnews.com/publish/news/Hard_Weekend_For_Harman.shtml