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Is 500 hours of break in really nec.?
Very interested in your upcoming comparison betwee Coincident and JPS !!!! Keep us posted 
Members: start a music review section?
Sdcampbell I support the idea specially since member suggestions can dececrease the ammount of discs in your that you might acquire that at the end just hang in your rack without been played that much...My two cents is to not complicate the thing ... 
Classic Levinson Amps
Anyone with comments on ML 20.6? Thanks 
CD Recommendations
Leila Pinheiro Na ponta do lingua excellent CD, Strunz and farah Americascd 
The universal language?
Very nice suggestions to the ever expanding music wish list!!!!Frogman may I suggest Madredeus from Portugal, for starters Os Dias da MAdredeus is a great CD for me, by the way Teresa Salgueiro sings very nice... they say it's Fado type music but ... 
Most emotionally involving cables?
Red, John1 that's called finesse!!!!!nice one...I do have MIT (T´2) cables and have been following some (heated sometimes) threads involving them . In my case, I have really taken my time on learning (still do) on system setup and have kept consta... 
Newbie with "bright" system
Mraybeck:Try the vibrapods with MDF (or small particle board )on the CD and let us know how does it go...Good luck 
Newbie with "bright" system
I recommend you to take a good look at your system set up ( give the Bryston enough break in time as well) as Onhwy61 suggest. You don't mention your previous amplifier, couldn´t it be that you are noticing the difference between the two (you are ... 
Room acoustics - yet again
KR Nice tip, could you please advise more details about CARA. Thanks 
Room acoustics - yet again
Ikarus:Specially with "real" world rooms (mine and yours I guess from your words) it's far more difficult to get decent sound, but at least you have the theoretical starting point. Be systematic on your approach and get a good test CD Stereophile ... 
Cable / Upgrade Recommendation
Bob:Actually I had the HTS 3 inches from the floor before the cones. Just considering that the electronics inside are in the same vibration environment prompted me to try the cones. I believe is a vibration thing on top of the elevation from floor... 
Help my MonsterPower HTS3500 is humming
Argent:Did you try disconnecting one at a time the other components from the pre to see where the problem is? This requires detaching interconnects and power cables.Do it systematically as Liguy says seems to be a ground loop. 
"Saudage" and the music of Brazil.
Dacostab, I have Sol Negro from Virginia and is one of my reference CD's very good, do you have this also? If so how do you compare them?There's a CD I really enjoy a lot and also use as reference for my testing it was suggested by a non audiophil... 
Where s the bass?
Definitely you need to work on your speaker/listening position combination. Accoustics do play tricks on us, get a test tone CD or select a CD with low bass information. (the best for me has been SPL+test tone CD)Then select repeat of a small segm... 
Help my MonsterPower HTS3500 is humming
You can take the dimmer out and see if the hum goes away, then you find what your next step is.Another possible cause might be that the new room is in a different circuit in the house and something in it is putting garbage in and the dimmer just a...