jimtreanorc21a

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Too snobbish for SACD as it exists?
I'm not sure if it's anti-Sony/Marantz/Philips snobbishness (though some of that exists) as much as a natural hesitance to move to a new format while the format situation itself is still uncertain...and certainly the limited availability of softwa... 
SACD quest
Try Elusive Disc (www.elusivedisc.com) or HMV (www.hmv.com), a Canadian site that offers SACD's for much less. 
Break-in proceedure Scd777ES???
Only the 777 needs to be on. 
SACD vs ANALOG
Comparing my $1600 Sony SCD-777ES with a similarly-priced SOTA vinyl rig and using the same program material, SACD sounds, to my ears, more "there." More expensive vinyl rigs may be better.Speculating about the future of SACD is in one sense a cra... 
PS Audio Multiwave-good or bad?
I run Multiwave (primarily PS2) on my P300 during listening sessions and shift it to Sin (60 Hz) mode when I'm done to keep electrical costs down (my equipment is on 24/7). If during a listening session I switch back and forth between a Multiwave ... 
Counterpoint amp (need input)
I bought a used SA-100 (the successor to the SA-12) about a year ago and liked it well enough as it was (I found it liquid and spacious, not forward or hard), but had it modified by Mike Elliott, and it became a superb amp...superb enough that I w... 
Mark Levinson = Car Stereo? Yes.
I read somewhere that the "Mark Levinson" sound system is actually a Harman Kardon system labeled "ML." 
Counterpoint Da-10 /ultra analog good ?
Just found a brand-new-in-box DA-10 with the standard AD card (not the Ultra Analog) right here on Audiogon a couple of weeks ago and like Alruhl am awaiting Mike Elliott's Rapture 24/96 upgrade (a user plug-in). I also have an Elliott-modified Co... 
Audio Research D79
The D-79 first appeared, I believe, in 1979 when I worked for San Jose's Garland Audio. Sorry I can't offer more details, since I left the audio business in 1980, but I _can_ say that you have a superb amp, something that Bill Johnson put a lot of...