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Help Me Choose Better 5-Channel Amp
Pass Labs or BAT? What about about a 3 channel and a 2 channel and spending more on the 2 channel. 
Cowboy Junkies junky needs to expand
Second on the Pandora. The Americana roots genre is deep with talent and shallow on notoriety. Pandora is a very effective and fun way to sniff some of these gems out.Norah Jones and Gillian Welch come to mind. Great music! 
Anyone with HD Tracks download experience to share
They finally got my attention when they started puting on Acoustic Disc labels content. FWIW- My experience with HD Tracks was similar to Ce511's. 
anyone heard the new Massive Attack yet?
Sorry for being a MA neophyte but I am a little confused as to what the "new" one is called. I googled and couldn't quite figure it out. I assume the recordings you are talking about are red book cd’s. I couldn't find any high res downloads- any k... 
Blue Circle 507/509 DAC w/Async USB
Do you know what the price of these are? 
Best SACD's
All of Patricia Barber's sacd's are great sounding- the low end is probably the best of any recordings I have.I would also recommend Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" for the I'm in the room with the artist sensation 
Where to get hi end cables reterminated
I would put parts connexion on the list.Please let us know how this turns out as I have a PC I would consider cutting in half. http://www.partsconnexion.com 
Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music?
"don't get the Fergie attraction"??Let's see... she's hot, she can dance, she sings good enough and she's hot. What's a girl got to do to get appreciated around here? 
Thanks to Audiogon and friends
I think the best bang for the buck is some decent monitors (appropriately efficient for your Cambridge), subwoofer and computer/dac (mac with Iphone is mucho funno).Have fun and happy listening. 
Best 'cue to eat while listening to the Blues
Mine! A couple slabs of baby back ribs and a couple boston butts, 10 hours of love and smoke while listening to Junior Wells on the back deck speakers. Now that's a way to spend a Saturday. I'm getting spring fever! What a winter. 
The truth about Apple/iTunes volume control?
I think Jax2 and Peter have it right.The compatibility between dac and pre are suspect. You're not going to get much help unless you tell us what your components are. Turning the volume down on Itunes is a work around that will work but is not opt... 
Best SACD's
Beck- "Sea Change" 
Do you ever wonder?
Jhugg9- You nailed it. 
Grand Prix versus Stillpoints
A good comparison of component stands wouldn't be the easiest thing to do. I suppose it probably doesn't happen very often. 
Van Halen or Van Hagar
Van Halen, and only I and II because I'm your Ice Cream Man.I remember being 16 years old and being blown away by Eddie's playing. Most rock up to that point was blues based riffs by English guys. This was something new, fresh, fun and very Califo...