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newbie question on TUBE gears.
Thanks guys...I was thinking about upgrading to Meridian 568 but decided to go separate path. Right not thinking about SS preamp with HT by path, Classe CP-50/60 or Audio Research. And thining about a tube power amp to match it. My current speaker... 
best all-round,full range at $2000
used JM Lab 926Used Sonus Faber Grand Piano Home 
iMac vs. PC Laptop
Your best bet is to use PC + Itunes + Apple Lossess + Sqeezebox for a while until the new Windows comes out...That's what I'm doing now... I'm using USB + External DAC for my main system and Sqeezebox for my second system. 
Reference Transports: An overall perspective
"If your transport breaks, you repair or get a new one. If your HD goes south, it gets tossed with all you stuff on it or you have to buy an adapter kit to hopefully download available content that's hopefully not corrupted." Bankup is your friend... 
How to get 2 Channel and Home theater in one packa
oh, my reasoning of totally separate systems over 'combo' system is because of the matching speakers and amp problem.One important thing on HT is to get the matching set of speakers.If you have a expensive set of fronts for 2ch, you are forced to ... 
How to get 2 Channel and Home theater in one packa
I was asking similar quesion to myself and fellow A'goners.I ended up with http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vdone&1097693275&read&3&4&I'm pretty satisfied with it, and I'm planning to upgrade to 568 for the 2ch improveme... 
It is said that for floorstanding type of...
why $8K?why not $10K? 
Is there a stereo receiver good sound compact size
Thanks for all the input.I'm planning to use Sqeezwbox as a source...Well it's hard to find a one box solution.Right now, I'm considering Adcom GTP-450 tuner/preamp + one of those compact amps(parasound, nuforce, Cyrus)or Creek 4330R integrated + ... 
Linksys Music Bridge
How does it compare to Squeezebox?does it play Apple Lossless? 
How can my setup be better?
well... thanks for the input.However, I'm talking more about in terms of PC audio stuff... Is what I'm doing considered the best approach to get most out of using PC as a source? 
How can my setup be better?
If you were me, how would you improve it without spending too much of $$$ 
Can a PC match the quality of the best CD players?
the HUSH PC looks nice... sort of what I was looking for... but the price is little too steep for me...I just picked up a refurbished Dell 5150 from dell.com for $500 and it is pretty quiet. Looks ok with the new silver case. 
Can a PC match the quality of the best CD players?
CD drives/burners on PC are never used. Also, never use DAC on PC.Digital data is read off from hard drive and sent directly to a external USB device such as U24 via USB cable, then the signal is sent to the external DAC via digital cable.If this ... 
Hagerman HagUsb vs M-audio Transit - anyone yet?
How about the usb version? I'm not 100% sure but I saw here that U24 and M-Audio is USB version 2.0?Seems like HagUsb is usb 1.1Does the usb version make any difference in sound quality? 
Chang Lightspeed models
well these two are both 9600 but looks differenthttp://www.changlightspeed.com/cls9600.htmhttp://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?accspowr&1141504046maybe one is older and one is newer, but they didn't changed the model name???