I scoured the rules of this forum and did not find anything prohibiting announcing quality vintage gear for sale. If I missed it, please forgive this. There are two days left on this listing for this stereo cassette deck in excellent condition.

Dear Readers, as a life long audiophile and music lover that cares for this great hobby it is time for me to speak up.

Reading through the great cable debate on this forum and others I have found time and time again well spoken contributers that continue to post psuedo scientific cable nonsense to promote the value of severily over priced interconnects and speaker wires.

Would really appreciate some advice on purchasing a new or used SACD player. There are so many models and features out there that I am getting dizzy in my research. I am not well-versed in the area, and don't want to end up with somthing that is over-hyped and under-performing. Budget is $500. Cosidering a universal player that has DVD, DVD-A & SACD capacty, but can go SACD-only (most important). Must also be multi-channel to fit a 5.1 system. I would lean toward higher-end used gear of 1-3 years.

Since all of the music I listen to is performed live through mics, mixers, amps, speakers and all sorts of processing, how do I try to reference a home system to a live system? Quite often my system sounds better than the live concerts that I attend. How can you access soundstage, musician placement and such when all of the performance is played through two sets of speakers, one on each side of the stage? The music you are listening to is recorded through solid state equipment, but now sounds better played back through tube equipment.

Stereophile did a write up on the Infiniti Bose Studio on Wheels. I have a few questions for Wes Phillips who listened to the system.

1.It sounds like the Bose engineer John Feng is an audiophile,on some other forum he mentioned owning Aerial Acoustics speakers,did he come across as an audiophile? (How many more closet audiophiles work for Bose...hmmm)

2.How did the sound system compare to say the Mark Levenson in Lexus(yes I know its the same speakers as HarmonKardon's other systems)or Audi's B&O system?

3.Wes,how would you rate the system overall?

Well I just recently added a few absorption panels from ATS Acoustics (3) 2'x2'x4" & (1) 2'x4'x4". The build quality is outstanding & their fabric choices are pretty extensive. These new panels combined with my GIK monster bass trap (1) 2'x4'6" & the Echo Busters corner traps (2ea) have really put a smile on my face. It's so hard to believe what actually happens. The music just takes on a whole new presence, the bass is just so damn tight now I can hardly believe it. My friends actually checked to see if my SVS sub was on. They couldn't believe it either.