chelentano

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B&W DM602 S3 or Paradigm Reference Studio 20??
paradigm 
why spikes under speakers???
I went different route. I baught at wallgreens DrSchool's Air-Pillo Gel shoe insoles (flat) and placed them under the speakers. A pair per speaker, $4.80 per pair. The sound improvement is huge! Spikes don't work. 
Best CD player for under $6000 used?
I am very sorry I meant $600! "6000" is a typo 
Best Sounding 2 Channel Sound Card
...even better if your digital PC sound out of digital output goes to digital amplifier/receiver, like HK or Sony receiver. That way your digital signal is not converted to analog and stays digital all the way. 
Best Sounding 2 Channel Sound Card
Actually the way I understand it that soundcard is unimportant. I think the better way to achive good jitter free PC sound is to bypass souncard and use optical or coax output going to recever or amp. 
Help to pick redbook player
Karabiyikoglu, I bought Arcam Appha 9 player. Now I am thinking avr525 could serve as good prepro and then I would get 2-channel power amp for the main speakers. Do you think this is a good route? 
arcam alpha 7 upgrade to alpha 9 or go to a cd92?
Actually I was told on this board that alpha 9 is the older version of FMJ player (FMJ is based on alpha 9 with some improvements). So in sound quality alpha 9 is between cd92 and FMJ. 
Best used sub for $300 and $600?
Thank you Joe. Music is my preference. 
Separates or Receiver for 2K
I've got Harnman Kardon AVR525. If I would use it as prepro and if I would get Rotel RMB-1075 amplifier, would I get much better sound? 
Help to pick redbook player
Thank you guys, all your messages are very usefull to me. This is great board.Yea, I've heard lotsa good thinks of Ah! and Jolida. I have not heard NAD, Shanling CD-S100 as most of these players. Though Shanling tube player with upsampling looks f... 
Sound Quality: "Stereo-Link" vs. Sound Card
I use this one:http://www.xitel.com/content/content_frontpage.htm# 
How to convert MP3 to CD on hard drive w/o burning
why would you wonna do it, if you wonna keep it on hard drive? You can't gain any sound quality since sound already compressed and the file would be much larger if you convert to WAVE. I use this device http://www.xitel.com/content/content_frontpa... 
bypassing the soundcard?
I use this USB device to bypass sound card w/digiatl out:http://www.xitel.com/content/content_frontpage.htm# 
Sacd / Dvda universal players
Lexicon RT-10 looks nice but too much money for me. Yamaha seems to be the best buy