I have a different gripe and it isn't about price. The list seems to be cobbled together from reviews which span a considerable amount of time; there is no attempt to reconcile the "recommendations" within any given grouping, and the cut and paste approach to the summaries, even those from the same reviewer, makes for glaring inconsistencies-eg, The Brinkman Balance is the best TT Fremer heard, with the exception of the Rockport, but elsewhere in the same category the Caliburn beats the Rockport.

In the late 70s I owned a Toshiba pre-amp, amp, speakers, a pair of Sennheiser headphones and a Thorens 160 turntable. All of the above as well as about 250 or so albums were stolen from the apartment we rented. They were never recovered and we had no renters insurance so it was a total loss.

Mrs. Sanford and I burned up all day and into the evening at the Austin City Limits Music Festival to hear Bob Dylan. My god! He was horrible. Tangled Up in Blue was unrecognizable. I am just grateful he didn't attempt to sing The Hurricane song. It was the young ones that started the mass exodus that followed. I'm not kidding. It was The Exodus. Not one person told me to STFU when I kept yelling over and over again during, Things Have Changed, "He won a f*cking Oscar for this song!

I am a

very lucky owner of a pair of Vandersteen Quatros with Mark Levinson equipment. I was wondering though if anyone had any songs that really stand out to them as amazing. I am hoping to find some music with excellent bass and something that makes me go wow. Any recommendations?

Scientists estimate that the sound of Krakatoa exploding was about 180 decibels 700 miles away. It is claimed to be the loudest sound ever heard by humans. The closest thing I have heard that loud would be Cheap Trick at an outdoor concert during the 1980s. Crewmen on ships within 100 miles of the explosion had their eardrums permanently ruptured. Krakatoa would be a good name for the next generation of Legacy speakers.

Mike Fremers Oct review of the Esoteric universal player has in my opinion, done much to confuse and mislead readers.
His statement that "Many audiophiles forget that an optical disk is actually an analog format...." is not so. If he is refering to the variations of signal strength read because of disk and laser variations as "analog", then there is no true digital data. Magnetic disk data has varying (analog)levels of flux density for both 1s and 0s. Digital interfaces such as 5 volt TTL signals also have (analog) variations in their levels. Not exactly 0V or 5V.

I have a Cambridge 640a V2 integrated that I'm looking to upgrade. Having read the glowing review of the A-9555 in this month's issue I was wondering if it would be a considerable step up from the 640a or would I essentially be trading four quarters for dollar.