The $1000 systems are interesting. How about a bigger budget and a bigger expectation.
Full range system either with sub or without, large room 20x20, and 2 channel or more. Should have CD and LP playback capability. Not SOTA but on the other hand, a system that is audiophile level. Possible?

Hello to All,

Could somebody give me impressions, opinions on the Pioneer VSX-1015 and the Denon AVR-3805. Though they differ in price, I believe they

Home depot has a temporary, paper, accordian type of mini-blind. I used some when I built my house and had not yet put up the blinds.

I haven't tried this yet, but I soon will and will post my thoughts on the results.

Anyway, I'm thinking of getting a few (they run about 5 bucks) and painting them to match my wall color and applying a dot of velcro on the wall and blind to make for easy application and removal.

I have been using a Dell 600m laptop running Windows XP and iTunes with error correction engaged to rip cds via a Plextor PX-712 UF external USB disc drive. Everything was working flawlessly until I upgraded from iTunes v.4.9 to v.5. Thereafter, iTunes would recognize a cd but would not play it or import it.

Which would you choose and why?

Thanks for your input/help.

Now that title may sound to some of you like a stretch, but you can see the news everywhere - now that the much-demonized music industry is already demanding an even bigger piece of the Apple pie** (The iTunes Music Store royalties pie, that is) and have been basically shooting themselves in the foot since they began taking 12-year olds as hostages for megabuck suings for filling their hard drives with illegal copies of Britney Spears pop pap.

I understand that a good soundcard and or DAC is important in the creation of a CD from LP etc. But what about the software? I can see that various software packages like GoldWave or Sound Forge have different GUIs and kinds of post processing (noise pop removel etc.) but does one software product produce a better WAV file then any other? If you select to not do any post processing, I cant see that it makes any difference?