Aloha,

I got a topic that's been buzzin' round in my head longer than DUP's hatred of Chord amps - harmonics, overtones, and sound reproduction.

The set up:

When you create a sound, what gets propagated and what we hear is more than just the sound that the instrument made.

We are taught that a sound at a given frequency creates more sounds at frequencies that are multiples of the frequency of the first sound, and overtones get created that may actually differ from instrument to instrument.

While thumbing through a dusty Goodwill bin full of LPs I find Andy Williams "Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes" Columbia CS-8609, year 1962. Cost 75 cents.

A dusting off and wet wash later Andy never sounded as good spinning on my platter the LP is mint! After being swooned for 37 minutes I put Andy in his new home, a fresh inner & outer sleeve for his nap, a short nap for sure.

This is why vinyl is KING

I'm not sure if this should really go into General Rants'n'Raves, but here goes.

I originally posted a version of this as a comment in Stephen Mejias' blog.

At the beginning of the Recommended Components list is the following disclaimer:

Is the Audio Technica 440MLa an audiophile level cartridge?

Hello,
I would like to take advantage of my 4bst preamp's XLR inputs for cd player, however it seems that that cd players with XLR outputs start at 3G, are there others that I may have missed that are less expensive? Right now I am using a $500. Marantz that I bought last year. Thanks.

Hi guys,