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Help me pick a digital cable
Buy a used Audience digital cable. All the others are very good too. The difference being you can resell the Audience if you don't like it, the others don't seem to have a big resale value.Happy Listening. 
Pass X-2.5 -vs- Pass Aleph P, What Differences?
The P is a warmer sounding preamp with slightly less overall bass control. The X 2.5 will offers better frequency extremes, tighter bass control, slightly faster, slightly more dynamic, with slightly more details. I would say that the 2.5 is more ... 
A worse feeling than burning out your amp?
Yes, twice I was fooling around with speaker cables and used some cheap banana plugs on the speaker end. Playing music loud must have loosened the bananas and they crossed blowing a channel in an amp. I did it again about a month late to another a... 
Sonic Frontiers or Pass with Dunlavy 4a
IMO the X-1, as already stated above, will not give you the "bloom" that you are looking for. Mine never did and I really loved the X-1. It was better sounding to me and my audio buds then the SF line 2. As I recall, the SF tube amps did not offer... 
Upgrade DNA 1 OR Buy DNA 225
Ask Steve is will tell you what the differences are.Happy Listening 
Nelson Pass and Forte
Just call Nelson and ask him.Happy Listening 
Trelja in New York - 2005
Gingko, are they the racquet ball company?Happy Listening. 
BAT solid state or tube?
The BAT VK-75 will offer a sweeter mid range and more of a real sound to the system IMO. I compared the VK-500 to a BAT VK-75 with Audio Physics speakers with the BAT VK-50SE and VK-D5SE a few years back and would have easily picked the VK-75 over... 
Review: Aesthetix Callisto Signature Tube preamp
Now go out and buy the Tom Evans Vibe a Pulse power supply preamp and really hear what that preamp can do, and it is a SS design. There was one here for $4K recently, a real bargin.Happy Listening. 
Pass Labs X-250 vs. X-600
To answer your question, there is a greater sense of ease to the sound/music with the X-600s. More air, more dynamics, better defined bass, etc, etc. I owned the X-250 for several years and it does what it can do extremely well especially for the ... 
Our we Lazy?
I still have not heard a SS amp do what a tube amp can do in my system. I am not saying that the SS or tube amp was better then the other, just different. Yes there are a few of each that may come close to each other, but overall when I am listeni... 
OK Stereophiles I Need a CD Player
My vote is for the Audio Aero Prima CDP used.Happy Listening 
So my wife says to me this morning
make a new nameplate and tape it to the unit and then sell the Scott! 
Conrad Johnson PV-10L & PV-10A which one better?
Neither, the PV-10 is a slow sounding preamp that lacks the frequency extremes, overall I was bored with it. Try the AL 3-A preamp.Happy Listening. 
Anyone hear the Audes Orpheus? Impressions?
I heard them one time about a year ago, but the actual system they were in sucked. I thought at that time that they represeted a good value if you could get 20-30% off the list price. I would have preferred to buy a different brand used if I could...