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Best jazz either purchased or released in 2001
Ditto on Charles Lloyd's "The Water is Wide" ..probably one of the best recordings of the past few months. I understand he has a new recording out ...will definitly pick it up 
Well, another pre-amp & HT integration question...
>>So you use the AES/EBU output to a 2-channel DAC and from there to the ML 380S and on the the amps. You program the PMDT to route CD's to that output, select that input on the PA and completely bypass the AVP, right?,,correct, there is not... 
Well, another pre-amp & HT integration question...
Here... I have the exact setup with the exception that my pre-amp is a Mark levinson 380Shttp://www.angelfire.com/mn2/mzn50/The PMDT Transport has multipule digital outs, the AES/EBU goes to my DAC (soon the BE ML 36S) and I also have a Ensemble D... 
why are wilson speakers so highly regaurded.
Well, for me they are fistly made of the absoultly best materials and finishing I have seen on any equipment period.Secondly, the sound was what I was looking for in a set of speakers. they go down to about 23db so slam is not an issue and they se... 
Shipping from US to Canada
I used BAX and you can go and be your own broker for them or other shipping companies ....they allow this..well worth it on $$$ items..It took all of 2 mins...stamp this and that ..cut them a check..and goods in hand run home and play with new toy !! 
How to ship large speakers between US and Canada..
I used BAX also with success, they were pretty good from Florida to Canada and very accomodating ..Shipped 500lbs worth of speakers.. 
Your System vs. Live Music, or how close to live..
I would consider myself to have a high grade audiphile system. When i go to a live jazz performance, I would say that when compared to my system, I achieve under 20%...nothing like the sound of the wood in a real instrement 
Best driving music.
Easy one Garbage CD entitlied Ver 2. !! 
Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
Excellent CD, especially disk 1 for my tastes...reminds me of the "good old days " !!Thank goodness the limited there very early music like bike to 3 or so tracks.. I really hate the early British pop and the cutesy rhyming lyrics...really does no... 
Cable shoot-out: Part IV
1 month ago I ordered Virtual Dynamics Reference Speaker cables in a Shotgun configuration.my first observations is that the lows were tight and the highs were ...well... rough but the mids were exceptionaly focused and smooth.Overtime, this cable... 
Anybody knows Virtual Dynamic cable?
I picked up there Reference Speaker cables and Reference Power cords and after 3 weeks of break in ...the speaker cables have displaced the Transparents I had.EquipmentMark Levinson 380SHalcro DM58 Monoshttp://www.angelfire.com/mn2/mzn50/ 
Radiohead read on
Not only are they amazing, the recording are top notch...Truly one of the leading alternative bands of the new millenium ! 
Absolute Best power amp, tube ss
I have owned both with Mark Levinson just leaving recently and now Halcro in my room and I have to admit ...the word LUSH and total transparency as well as the lowest noisefloor I have ever heard .. -24db of niosefloor you got with the halcros com... 
Proceed AVP?
AVP, to me offer probably some of the best 2 chn sound in the biz, offers "most" of the surround effects.I sold my original AVP and 3 months later, sold the replacement and purchased another AVP.The AVP also now offers 96/24 decoding with the most... 
Levinson Amps: What do they really sound like?
Jhardy, I found your statement to be true, however, one needs to bring up that speakers are also a very important component in the final anaylsis.I matched my Levinson with ProAcs and found them to be a suberb combo, however the ProAc lacked punch...