next step please

Yea, Manila is a tough one; ya know with all the middle east terrorists holed up in the Phillipine jungles probably making WMD's (or, maybe hiding Saddam's there!) and Americans so afraid of brown-er people in general, and then there is always the proximity/logistics issue, and...I hope you can use this forum to put together a nice system. Find a guy with good feedback, preferably mature and not pushy or a bull-shitter, trust him and pre-pay with overnight letter (@ $25 if I remember), cover the shipping, and you should do alright. I'm a picky seller and I've sold a couple of pieces to non-North American buyers in this way. Good luck. Mark

If you are going 2 channel, then chuck the Denon and add that money to purchase (assuming not already done). Get yourself a good British integrated SS amp, say, the older 25W class A Musical Fidelity (can't remember, getting way too old, A1, I think). Then save for new speakers, say, vintage Rogers 15 ohm LS3/5A's; sell yours and add to it to get them; your next $500 jump. At this point, and regardless of the wire naysayers, you will have significant limitations from your wire. Hunt around for some old Discovery PC's ($75 used) and IC's (@100) or some Kimber, or...you get the idea. Then, since CD is begging about the same time as cable, look at that. By that time, say a year from now, and given that most of us will be out of work by then but still scared enough of "brown people" to be ignoring it, an Audio Aero Prima should be down to about $650, so scam one of those, and, blah, blah...then you will be pretty happy.

Cy, your Puccini just came up for sale at $625. If you get it, let us know how it turned out.