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What, in your opinion, has the greatest effect on a system's "sound"?

How do you have your audio system set up in your listening room?

What would you, as a consumer, suggest the industry do in order to ensure high-end audio's survival?

Compared to CDs or vinyl, how often do you listen to music on FM radio?

Have you found that cable upgrades make a difference in your system?

Changes in recording technology have made music:

Will the market for high-end audio get better or worse?

Which would you prefer: purchasing hard copies of new recordings, or paying for a download onto your CD or DVD recorder?

How many channels and what formats do you want to see on DVD Audio discs?

Recording of July 1989: <I>Yellow Moon</I>

The Neville Brothers: Yellow Moon A&M CD 5240 (CD). Malcolm Burn, eng.; Daniel Lanois, prod. AAD. TT: 53:01

This hasn't happened to me in years—I'm driving to the Stereophile office, listening to my local NPR station, when, over a bed of warm, lazy synthesizer ambience, an ambisexual voice floats out the words "My name it means no-o-o-o-o-o-thing, my age it means less..." Man, that's familiar! But who's singing—Al Greene? Nah. Phoebe Snow's new album? Hmmm. Whoever, it's hypnotic, mesmerizing.

"...the country I co-o-o-o-me fro-o-o-m is called the Midwest." OK, it's a Dylan…