Gentlemen, I would like to know how Mikey Fremer can make a comparison between two turntables 6 years apart. Most people cannot remember what they heard 6 hours ago, some can't remember six minutes ago.

Not only is the period of time staggering but his equipment has totally changed. A review of the Continuum with the Rockport present, both armed with the same cartridge and fed into the same phono stage, through the same system, now that would be a review.

What is the difference between a Class A amp and a Class AA amp?

Here's a link to a very nice article on the ExtremeTech.com web site about the problems of trying to stream lossless encoded music from one's computer to an A/V system. It's well worth the read.

The iPod and the Audiophile

Was today my lucky day or what? The C-28 is in pristine condition, I would rate it 9/10 cosmetically. It hasn't been used in years so sonically I don't know yet. My stereo guru said it was & still is a stellar pre-amp. I'm taking it to him for the once over. I'll definitely hook it up in my system to see how it sounds. Then I'll decide whether or not to sell it. Any of you guys have any comments about this particular pre-amp? I called McIntosh w/ the serial # & they said it was produced in the mid to late seventies. From what I can gather re-sell can be upwards of $ 800.

I've been looking at a few amps for my system to run in both HT & 2 channel listening. My source is a Consonance Droplet5.0 tube output player, NAD T773 receiver as pre/pro, AADaudio 2001 monitors (8ohm, 86db sensitivity) The amps in question are: Mac MC252, Bryston 4BSST, NuForce ref 9, Rotel RB1090. Prices new are: Mac-$3800, Bry-$2800, NuForce-$2500, Rot-$1800. As you can see that's a pretty big pricing gap. My question is about the sonic qualities between them & if some really warrant the extra coin? For example the diff in price between the Mac & Rot is $2000.

Actually, I love Art Dudley, I was just yanking his chain to see if he'd react.

If he does, I'll send him here for a gotcha!

Repeat, love, Art, Dudley.

My husband's 30th birthday is in 2 weeks and I need to get him a Theta Carmen II! He used to have a David and still wants one but has resigned himself to the fact that there are none out there for sale...anywhere!

I live in NYC, if anyone has any suggestions about where to get one, please let me know!

Thanks!

Read the ad it claims to sound better than Cd and SACD...So Philips/Sony wasted MILLION$ of dollars in inventing DSD/SACD format? since this company can out do it, using the "old" CD discs? By reprocessing the Cd information, Hmmmmm, riiiiight. Why didn't they guys who invented the Cd know this could be done? HDCD and JVC's XRCD or whatever it was called, was useless too. The data on a Cd is what it is, it's like claiming line doublers on a tv is like HD broadcast image. Ain't never will be.

I enjoyed reading Art Dudley's article on tweaks until I came to the end and his rant against Transcendental Meditation. I've been doing TM for 30 years and have had great benefits from it. Art is undoubtedly a talented and insightful reviewer but there always seems to be some pent up anger interwoven in his reviews. Anger is always harmful particularly to the initiator - it degrades one. I'm sure Art does not intentionally mean to do harm with his anger.