Audiokarma would like to extent and invitation to all those in the Midwest and especially in the Detroit, Toledo area to attend the 4th annual Audiokarma Festival held in Southfield Michigan on March 24 and 25.

Come on out and visit with dealers and manufactures such as McIntosh, Marantz, Manley and Blue Circle. Live music will be in the lounge on Sat evening. Tons of free audio related door prizes will be given away. For more information please view the festivals web site http://audiokarma.org/ak2007/

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I've read a few reviews but so far everyone is using a perfect or near perfect room.It would be quite interesting if someone with a less-than-perfect room did a review out of curiosity just to see how good the audysey correction system is and how far would it go correcting room acoustics.

I was just wondering if any NYC area based forum members happened to go the Masada and Cecil Taylor concerts last Friday and Saturday nights at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall. If you do live in the NYC area and enjoy jazz's freer side then you sure missed one heck of a fabulous concert.

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall is a relatively new concert hall with a 1200 seat capacity, great sight lines and excellent acoustics. I attended Friday night's show and the hall seemed to be almost full, which is a good sign for jazz and a really great sign for free jazz.

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I saw a post somewhere that said that with higher voltage electrical supply, cabling can be smaller and has less effect on sound.

As an electro-luddite, I wonder if that's true?

Then, I was thinking 220 volts at 50 cycles may have an easier time powering power supplies, etc...

So, would gear designed to run on that higher voltage have an advantage in its native environment over our 110 volt set-ups running on our electricity?

Maybe I should I be buying Euro-gear and running the power from my washing machine circuit?

Hi,
I have a Micromega Stage 1 CD player which I am using as a transport for a Channel Island Audio VDA-1, along with a Rega Mira amp. I am looking to change out the CD and I don't know whether to go for a modern CD player like the Rotel RCD-1072, or use something older that might match up better, like the old Rega Planet, and keep using the VDA-1.

Is a modern CD player like the Rotel so much better than my 10 year old Micromega coupled with a modern DAC? Any thoughts would be most welcome.

Thanks