Hi,

I am looking at three options:

1) Musical Fidelity A5 Pre, Pow and CD Player with Dynaudio 82's
2) Krell KAV-400xi, KAV-250 CD Player and Paradigm Reference 100s
3) Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated + A5 or A3.5 CD player with Dynaudio 52s.

Appreciate your thoughts on the above.

This is an excellent and informative article. I am a fan of Keith's writing. What we all must remember is that the data on a disc do not trace out the waveform at higher frequencies. The data points on the disk are the skeleton for the digital filter to flesh out. His point about the ringing pattern of the digital filters time domain response being directly responsible for replicating the higher frequency components of the waveform is one that many detractors of digital audio seem to be unaware.

Hello all. I auditioned this preamp this past weekend; The rest of the system was:

Paradigm Signatures S8
ARC 300.2 solid state amp
Cyrus CD Player....

Needless to say this was a sublime audio experience, as cliche as this may sound, I have never heard a system this good, ever!! This new ARC preamp is really something else. I'm not a big tube fan, but I think this time ARC got it right and hit it way out of the park, the sound was rich, enveloping, textured,without loosing transparency...Everything was just perfect, anybody else have heard this new preamp???

I am really surprised more time was not allocated to explaining or trying to figure out what was the cause of this quirk... it sounds like a viable issue to me.

Thought some of you might enjoy this link of the history of vinyl. BBC History of Vinyl

See, some of you who think I am IT challenged...you can teach an old dog a new trick. WOOF!

Anyone know of reasonably priced speaker stands that are 12" tall, about a 10"x10" platform, with little or no tilt and that will support 90 lbs?