no magic wires, no imaginary crystal wire strand jumping, pure audio engineering, lotsa WATTS I think I have more per sq ft than this place though. This place sounds good, they control the boom, unlike some plaes, that boom ya, whomp ya'. http://www.starlandballroom.com/tech/tech_specs.pdf

I'm a little puzzled at all this talk of fancy CD transports, fancy digital cables for connecting a transport to a DAC, etc. It seems to me that only the DAC should affect the sound of a CD player. After all, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0, right? If a transport exhibits a "warm midrange" or something like that, wouldn't it have to be somehow altering the bits on the CD? I'm sure that never happens... after all, your computer's CD-ROM drive reads programs perfectly from CDs all the time. I don't see why an audio CD player would be any worse.

I wanted to take this opportunity to share a recent experience I had at an audio store in San Francisco called the House of Music.

Some background about me: I am an audiophile in training. For years I have had speakers which were not good by any stretch of the imagination. For years, I have dreamed about putting together a great system and finally got some cash together to start building it. It was a long time coming. I'm a type of person who carefully researches things before making a purchase and does serious due diligence.

Aloha,

Be sure to get your mojo over to WXPN (xpn.org) for their Live at Noon series tomorrow, Friday, March 31.

Special guest! Great station. I like to stream them, KGSR in Austin, Texas, and KFOG in San Francisco.

Any other favorite stations you listen to online?