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What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
Yellowjackets - Timeline  A solid, engrossing album; get to the end, start it over again.  Not sure why it rated only 3 stars in The All Music GuideTrack 8, Like Elvin...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0azalnK66E@jafant If you want Bruford/Towner... 
Would you change your amp selection knowing...?
@williewonka Thanks for taking time to reply. No need to apologize for the length. Appreciate your efforts to be thorough. Still digesting, though on the initial read-through you've provided worthwhile elaboration on BJC's comments.  Performance n... 
Happy Easter!
To you as well, 2pysop.  And for the believers among us, Happy Resurrection Day. 
Tune of the Day
@slaw Glad to hear that.  Mine too, I'd say.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to "get into" their albums after this one, but I have all the studio releases coming before it.   
Tune of the Day
Wilco, from Wilco - The Album, One Wing...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3pBjPwgtg(Thanks, Nels) 
Whats playing on your system today?
Joe Satriani - Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards....Track 2 here...Dream Songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE4FsuJvP_8 
Would you change your amp selection knowing...?
ieales - Thanks for the bi-wire capacitance info. Don’t want to sidetrack this thread into a defense of Paul Laudati and Clear Day Cable though I will say I’m inclined to take him at his word. Paul has been around a while and it would be a fairly ... 
Would you change your amp selection knowing...?
Speaker Cable:Speaker cable is a bit different from a lot of the interconnect cables we handle, in several respects. Because speakers are driven at low impedance (typically 4 or 8 ohms) and high current, speaker cables are, for all practical purpo... 
Help with integrated amp choice
Appreciate the confirmation and additional comments @johnnyb53 I have been tempted by that integrated for some time now but keep finding other ways to spend my audio dollars! I think @twoleftears has some good suggestions too, esp. re a Hegel. The... 
Help with integrated amp choice
Maybe a used Parasound Halo?  New it goes for around $2500.  In silver, I think it is a really good looking piece.  Stereophile has a full review on it.https://www.stereophile.com/content/parasound-halo-integrated-integrated-amplifier 
What does moving from a 150 watt amp to a 400 watt amp get you?
Insouciance 
Whats playing on your system today?
Good luck with those, N.  Much happiness enjoying great music through them. 
Tune of the Day
A great track, Seems Like A Lifetime Ago (Part 1) from a great album:  Bill Bruford's Earthworks "Random Acts of Happiness" (live)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSxBqhF-iFs 
Gotta love Nelson Pass
Many of his products have very different appropriate applications.Hello, @unsound  - will you please elaborate on that?  
Upgrading speaker cables...
Agree with dillI don’t understand how good audio gear will produce finely detailed sound based on sensitivity to minute changes in the signal yet not be sensitive to differences in the electrical properties of various brands of wire unless "broken...