Folks,

Have anybody upgraded Simaudio i-5 integr. amplifier with a recent $300 sonic upgrade?
I would like to know if it worth doing that.

Gene.

I think John Marks has his dollars wrong. An ambitions audio system is around $10K, which is about what I have in mine. I know that many audiophiles spend more, after all, I've read about $60K amplifiers in Stereophile. But tell any non-audiophole even a couple K and they think your nuts. So if you were taking about a music teacher, what you really need todo is give them a system for $2K that will rock their world.

I don't know about you, but as an audiophile who prefers Redbook CDs as my only front-end source of music recordings, I'm outraged and disgusted by the recently increasing number of digital music recordings which are being released only in a DualDisc, combination CD/DVD package. (http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=11667428).

Own Wilson Audio Watt/Puppy 7. Looking to upgrade my pre and power amps. $20,000 budget. Any recommendations? Watt/Puppy 7 owners, what amps are you using? Comments appreciated.

I used to hear Dave McKenna at the Copley Plaza in Boston where he played in the winter time, and I've collected most of his recorded work (Concord label). Fine solo piano and has held his own in many first cabin groups, but for all I know, I may be his only fan.

This is a must have box set. The remastered BTR is a much improved sounding CD than the original CD release. The deal maker though, is the live DVD of a show from London's Odeon in 1975. I was lucky enough to have seen the band in those days in the Bottom Line. This set shows the E Street Band in front of the Brits. They seem nervous( what with the British press of the time being skeptical) but the guys are on f***ing fire,and by the time they hit Rosalita they have the audience eating out of their hands.