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mondonitro

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Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier
If you can audition any AN products I'm sure you can find one to suit your tastes. the Otto has has been high on my list. If 300b is enough juice for you than maybe the AN Kit 1. Less expensive 300b option I can recommend would be Elekit 8600 with... 
300B SET Amp driving Wilson Sabrinas
  mijostyn ignoring your sexist comment for the moment since when does loud = good? I have that Elekit amp and can say for certain there is a magic in that tube I have very very rarely heard with big muscle SS amps. Its a trade off, will you get ... 
Higher-End Class A/B vs. Class A Integrateds
Hmmmm people seem to forget SET Tube Amps are Class A by nature. A 845 will get you 20watts so dont over look that option also.    
Re-ripping music collection to new iMac
Depends on your system,you may not be able to tell the difference. I don't know about WMP but ripping to a aiff file will include metadata that wav will not. Hard drive space is so cheap there is no reason to compress your files. If it gets cheap ... 
Help w/speaker choice
Thiel with that front end ouch! Really depends on what type of sound are you looking for. Here is a good primerhttp://www.sonicflare.com/archives/sonicflares-sonic-circle.phpI'm in the wideband high efficancy camp and love it. Zu Druid and DHT 2A3... 
Zu Druid questions
I own the druids and heard the Usher 6381's at CES. they were powered by a Melody amp, not sure which one but I think it may have had 2a3 tubes. I had a cd which I burned and brought to the show so all the music was very familar. After listening t... 
External hard drive for expanding iTunes library?
Edsilva my post on The g drive is in regards to reliability not speed. Some drives after awhile can develope problems with recognition and corrupting data. I perfer the best drives for archiving and that seems to be the G drives.Image processing h... 
External hard drive for expanding iTunes library?
Late to the table but here is my 2 cents. In the pro photo world, the g drive is THE standard. And trust me losing a 200,000 dollar job is alot worse than losing cd's that have been burned. Hope that helps.