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TECHNICS SL1200 MKII.......THE REAL FACTS
add KAB mods to 1200 tonearm and no Rega of any kind will compete at any price. 
Active vs Passive Pre amps
Zd, It's all regardless and nevertheless at the same time.regardless of your output source, input sensitivity and impedance of your amp, it will benefit from stable output impedance of active preamplification.nevertheless, there are benefits of pa... 
High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground?
Schubert, That may place me out of business as media retailer where I earn the most of dollar on serious music(not on pop or rap or hiphop that brings little to none and mostly in budget crates and bins).I believe the number isn't so pessimistic. 
Benz micro glider vs dynavector 20X2
in the past years i would strongly prefer benz over dyna given the fact they're same class.benz gives exceptional sonic balance and smoothness of non-fatigue performance while dyna is somewhat aggressive but very precise. 
Where would I ask this q?
i recommend going discogs that has very efficient way of listing your catalog and selling it.it nowdays hits the most of music shoppers throughout the world.the listing is piece of cake. just dial the release ID and your CD pops up with picture or... 
"New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl
it's not possible today to rebuild this mono catalog without digital re-mastering. i wouldn't be surprised if the tapes are already sounding very poor today.the tapes are darn old and missing half of recorded information if not more.early re-issue... 
Active vs Passive Pre amps
in reality it's very simple math instead of science:passive volume control will vary resistance from valueA to valueZ where we can assume Z will be the the highest so to control the output voltage.active volume control(active preamp) will have sta... 
Top 3 Most Overrated Artists contest in R&R.
Martykl, in my comment about being defensive I thought it's clearly visible that you're not on this picture being defensive, but rather informative and argumentative. It's totally different. Many people believe certain artists are overrated for ce... 
DAC doesn't recognize hi-res files
oops I meant 16/44.1not trying to critique or question at all quality of mac, but it's still yesterday's digital tech ant not today's regardless of performance.Doggie,try to mask such as arz, snit, cwap etc...-) 
Top 3 Most Overrated Artists contest in R&R.
If G&R get rid of Axel Rose, they'll be very descent indeed taken into consideration skillful Slash.Metallica stepped into era of the tasteless, plain and 'rectangular'(imho) southern rock and did things different with presence of talent, skil... 
DAC doesn't recognize hi-res files
your dac recognizes USB only as 24/192. you need today's technology dac and not mac. for mac you need usb-sp/dif converter and use rca input. 
Paint that helps diffuse sound?
i just imagine walking into audio store that has paint section like home depot LOL! 
Paint that helps diffuse sound?
why not, one other found tweak will bring a small or large fortune stripped from foolish. i always respect that but don't buy of course. 
Top 3 Most Overrated Artists contest in R&R.
Lindisfarne, as you may know, the site has technical problems and amateur crew supporting it. As I was typing some letters did go wrong or didn't go to the screen at all no matter how many times i tried to type them. We ain't talkin'bout gramma he... 
Great films where music is a central theme.
Topic isn't sophisticated as mentioned previously and here's my list out of the top of my head quickly appeared:Rock and experimental music:2-moon July. It's wierd movie that is partially documentary featuring kool artists such as Anton Fier, Arto...