I have a pair of JBL L40 about 25 years old that I have had reconed once they now need to be redone.I believe it cost me about 200 to 300 hundred dollars when I had it done about 12 years ago.Can someone give me an opinion on if they are worth to fix?I think they sound pretty good.I'm thinking of buying the ORB( like the BOSE ) or the Energy rc 70 to build a Home theater system i don't want to spend more than 1200.00.please comment on both of these system.thanks

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Never seen a VPI 19 cleaning machine, nor a VPI HW-19 MK14...where they special order?

Has anyone here used an iPod as a jukebox? I was thinking of getting DLO's Music Remote and use my video iPod to play through my stereo. I will re-rip my music at a very high bit rate. My main concern is what effect the dock will have on the sound in the way of noise. Does anyone hear have experience with this?

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Maybe I haven't noticed before, but in JA's measurements section, nice comment that this player is just like some of the previous ones from other makers, since the subtle mention hint hint that this one gives good CD performance just like other's recently reviewed. Nagra, Linn, Simaudio...instead of it being another monthly breakthrough which things ain't. Each reviewer writes up the product thaty have as themost unique, outsatnding, breakthrough they ever seen. Enough already with piling on the crapola.

I may have concluded that so much stuff recently in teh magazine is like having a standard flush toilet in a low flush world. Why do they keep doing reviews on stuff that harkens BACKWARDS to battery power? Hmmm years ago with stuff they had 67V EVERREADYS providing supplies to tubes, hardly anything new. In an mA stabilizer for stuff i worked on, they had a battery for revernce, voltages, using 2d21 Thyratron tube...So with these products being reviewed using battery powered pre amp, battery powered phono preamps. It's just going BACKWARDS not forward. also a lot of marketing BS.