By Marc Philip, Editor www.magazine-audio.com Published June 2006

Not so long ago we had the pleasure of auditionning Mr. JR Orion system from LinkwitzLab, a 3 way active system with each of it's 8 speakers individualy driven by its own amplifier channel in an open baffle configuration in his listening environment.

The least that can be said about this experience is that the system represents in many ways the ''Holy Graal'' in sound reproduction for many audiophiles.

Current set up -- NAD 320BEE, NAD 521i, Wharfedale Pacific Evo 8s.

I'm currently looking to replace my bookshelf Wharfedale's with floorstanding speakers. Budget is around $1000 (plus or minus a few hundred). I have heard/read some good things about the Monitor Audio RS6s.

Recommendations? Obviously the NAD 320BEE isn't the most powerful integrated amp -- does it have enough power to power the Monitors and/or other floorstanding speakers?

As a side note, I mostly listen to Jazz.

Help is appreciated.

I counted five pages (p19-22 by Sony Entertainment, p25 by Sony Pictures) of Blu Ray ads in the July issue. What are the implications for high end audio? Any predictions?

Hello all -

I would love to buy a vintage b&o amp to use with existing kit (simple set, a pair of b&w xts2 and a Kiss dp-600: far from audiophile but suits a small house and my simple tastes)

I am currently using an old Arcam but find that a b&o style (like a 1900 or a 5500, both of which I see on eBay rather cheap)

SO; - how do i connect to the B7O unit, since all that i've ever seen have funky little connectors, din and all that - i need simply l&r speaker outputs and a single l&r stereo input - can this be done, do i need custom cables?

You may need a dictionary and some textbooks to understand some of the terminology but at least after studying these articles I can now look at the graphs and maybe see what the reviewer is referring to. Nevertheless, I would still be stretching it by getting myself in a conversation over them. I've only read them a couple of times.

http://stereophile.com/features/99

http://stereophile.com/features/100

Calling Rhintek with questions was less then satisfactory. Yea, yea, nah.
How important is your speaker design for the positioning algorithim? Seems almost impossible to have enough data to design your speaker in CARA. Does it really matter for positioning?

Anybody try the affordable silver IC's from White Zombie who can offer some impressions? I've ordered a couple of the El Chupacabra to try out in my system. I'll post some thoughts after I've installed them and they've had a chance to break in a bit.

Would be nice to read July's and June's, but I'm still waiting for Both to arrive. Well done Stereophile... nice way to impress a subscriber.

BTW I did have great service up to the Non Arrival of Junes Edition.