jond

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Three days until Christmas
Happy holidays to everybody in the Audiogon family, this is a great place to be, and here's to a great 2003!Gunbei, I'd sure like to get my hands on the Conoisseur Definitions 4.0 Phono and Linestage combo! 
$1,500 to spend on a tubed full function pre
If you can stretch, there's an Air Tight ATC 1 out here for 2K. I have one and it's a great sounding preamp with a MM phono stage using 3 12ax7's. 
Burnin CDs? Sound loss/degration question
Wmcmanus,I haven't tried the gold but I've had excellent results with the silver. Good sound quality and a failure rate of zero. Because I have a Philips CDR880 which only uses consumer grade discs, I haven't tried regular data grade, but I'm sure... 
Burnin CDs? Sound loss/degration question
I get Mitsuis online at Terrapin Tapes. www.ttapes.com. They are definitely the best! 
Kharma with or without grills: Am I crazy?
If they sound better to you with the grills on then they sound better! A good speaker designer should take the presence of grills into account and it sounds like the designers at Kharma did. Don't feel you need to listen without grills because "ev... 
NJ record stores
I second the Princeton Record Exchange, great store! 
Filling speaker cavities with cat litter
Not recommended if you have cats! 
Lead shielding
Please don't use lead, it's quite poisonous! 
Laser Turntables; Opinions Please
I thought there was a fairly recent review on this in TAS? Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps it was Stereophile. Whichever, I don't think the review was very complimentary, your records need to be fantastically clean or you get tons of surface noise. In fa... 
Ever Have One Of Those Evenings?
Wow!!! 
Need an integrated for sensitive speakers - Help
I second the Bryston B60. I had one and loved it, only sold it to upgrade to tube seperates. One thing, try to find one with upgraded jumpers, it makes a world of difference. 
Downgrading Help
Dennis,Why not just keep the BAT for redbook, the Phillips for SACD, and sell the Wadia? 
MSB Gold dac Question???
Not being an MSB owner I can't tell you what the other led's are for, but if you're hearing music you have it hooked up correctly and have the right input selected. That should mean the dac is sounding essentially as it should. The other led's pro... 
MSB Gold dac Question???
How are you getting any sound at all if the dac is off? Are you using a CDP as a transport? Please describe how you're system is configured, perhaps it's not even in the chain. 
Sonus Faber Grand Piano's what amp are u running?
Steve,That's a 70 watt stereo tube amp. I have a medium to slightly small room and it's plenty of power.