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Cat Stevens.... Great Artist or Wacko?
Hey, it's simple: buy only used versions of his music if you don't want any of your $ going to support extremist/anti-free-expression viewpoints. I love his early music but strongly disagree with his current politics and buying or not buying his m... 
What the heck are NOS tubes?!
It's also possible that the sovteks were faulty; a lot of new tubes are bad. In general, if you're getting that 'rush' sound, it means you've got a bad tube in the preamp. 
Is SACD really this lousy?
It's reassuring that a conversation regarding formats has turned to the subject of music. I'm into the odd and unusual in music: musique concrete, european free improv, uncategorizble experimentation ( bernard gunter, francisco lopez, ralf wehowsk... 
CAT pre-amps
I have the CAT mk. III which I bought after auditioning a mid level spectral and the top of the line cary. The CAT struck me as the most natural of the 3; the Cary was more romantic (but I could easily live with it) and the spectral seemed to 'ext...