Tripp Lite and others make an active unit that stay at 120v with 89v-140v inputs by auto selecting taps on a transformer. The units also have EMI and RFI filtering. Wouldn't these be preferable to filiter only units? They are very reasonably priced - especially compared to some of the filter only unit. Is there a downside? (Lastly - it seems to me it might add some protection from lighting?)

After seeing JA's post about the skinny summer issues right before my July copy arrived, I figured that maybe the politics would end up on the cutting floor. But there it is, opening up the feature review, another blast from the far left. On top of that, the review itself falls a bit short.

Hi Dup

Back then,when i was searching for new speakers and Legacy Audio Whispers were a major candidate,they used to have a device which i believe they still do (forget the name) that you connect to a pair of speakers (actlually that device was supposed to be used primarily with the Whispers) and it was supposed to change the "Q" factor.Did you get the chance to listen to it ?

Here's a strange question: does anyone else have the habit of falling asleep during listening sessions? I'm not talking about "listening fatigue" here but more like being in such a relaxed state and being so into the music that you fall into a sort of trance and then asleep. I do this all the time and it doesn't seem to matter what genre of music is playing. The other day I fell asleep half way through Cecil Taylor's "Conquistador" CD! If you can sleep through that....It's not that I was bored with the music but just so into it that all other thoughts melted away.

Roy E's mention of Charlie Haden's releases on the old A&M Horizon record label made me think about the Artists House Records label, which founded by the same individual who was behind the A&M Horizon record label, one John Snyder.