After months (out of stock)i eventually managed to purchase my first HDAD disc.Alan parson's project "Eyes in the sky"
To be honest,i was dissapointed.Maybe i expected more but to my ears it sounded like something between a cd and sacd.
Is it because i chose the wrong disc?This particular one was "ported" from cd i suppose.Perhaps a "pure" live recording will be better?

So, a Stirful writer attended a bummer audio demo. Surprise, surprise It is an ongoing fantasy with the audio press types that useful demos are possible, even normal! Having suffered through the outrages of the past forty years of "An Evening With ..." let me relieve the tension: demo's suck. All of them. In fancy hotels, in private homes, in retail listening rooms with little triangular pillows in the corners of the ceiling ... forget about it.

Was that an oxymoron? Compare this review with the 1972 Advents reviewed in the May 2006 edition! And with little comments like, "They're on casters", "...measured performance raises more questions than answers", "...it is a consistently wonderful component through which to enjoy music of all kinds for the sake of music, not 'hi-fi'", "a great loudspeaker", leaves me to believe it is worthy of the "Hi-Fi" label? Nothing more? Personally, I don't think it was tested enough. It got off way too easy. Especially, for the price tag. The poor ol' 34 year old Advent got hammered in May.

Now that I've purchased a new system...While I was looking for new equipment I was reminded, by a number of "experts", to be sure that the amp could drive the speakers I chose. I was given a long scientific explanation as to how to determine the speakers and amp were properly matched...certain speakers required higher wattage amps to perform properly. In layman's terms, how does a person determine what amp works best with what speaker? Does one go by the Power Handling specs that the speaker manufacturer post.

Ouch, Mr. Fremer doesn't hold back his bile towards the CD format in this month's "Analog Corner"!
Yes, the Compact Disc had a rocky start but the medium sounds pretty darn good now.
Unlike Mr. Fremer, I'm hoping that the CD format, or at least some form of uncompressed digital disc format, lives on and continues to improve.