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PayPal versus C2it
A personal PayPal account is useless, since you can only receive money from someone with a cash balance, which is only about 5% of the people out there buying, from my experience. 
How can I still hear my tuner when it's off?
Any component that has a remote control ON/OFF is never off completely. If it were off completely, there would be no power to receive the ON command from the remote. They are really on Stand-by. 
Top 20 or Top 100 Classical Music Charts
The charts are interesting.Now all we have to do is convince record companies that Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, Mark O'Connor, most Adrea Bocelli recordings, and Billy Joel's music played on solo piano is NOT classical music.I guess their cr... 
Top 20 or Top 100 Classical Music Charts
Billboard Magazine keeps a classical chart at: http://www.billboard.com/billboard/yearend/2001/classical.jspTo get current full Billboard classical charts online (or in print) you have to be a subscriber.Both the websites for Amazon and Billboard ... 
Top 20 or Top 100 Classical Music Charts
Amazon keeps track of their sales at: http://www.searchbeat.com/perl/apexec.pl?etype=amazon&template=amazon-classical-best.htm&mode=hotlist&amazon.passurl=/exec/obidos/subst/music/charts/classical-20-albums.html/ 
Garage Sale Steals - What to look for?
Pelv is on to something. Sometimes non-working units being sold for parts have a blown fuse or something simple. 
Garage Sale Steals - What to look for?
What you mention happens occassionally on America's garage sale, eBay; even though usually prices on eBay end up higher than classifieds. The main reason this happens is bad spelling so folks who search don't find it, or it is in the wrong catagor... 
Bitstream Dac's
Some DAC's and CD players went with Dual Mono Bitstream converter setups as well. 
Cable dollar allocation
Hmmm let's see.....I have no rule similar to Bishopwill. For example: I have a classic analog Kenwood tuner I paid $50 for. It sold for $200 24 years ago (which might be at least $500 today). I am using a pair of $250 cables (I paid $150). I love ... 
Best Budget Sub?
The HSU is nice for $500. Also look for a REL Q Series sub like the Q100E or the new Q150E. The Q150E might be about about a $1000. Check with Ambrosia Audio at www.ambrosia.com 
What to do... US Postal Money order not received.
Someone sent me two pieces of mail at the same time Priority and it took 2 days for one to arrive and the second one 10 days. It was only going about 400 miles. Who knows how they got separated that badly? 
Where can I buy Monitor Audio speakers on the web?
Here is the direct link is to Idaho Multimedia. They appear to sell the whole Monitor Audio Line: http://www.osht.com/highend/speakers/bronze2speakers.htm 
Help with Upgrade
I would start with the digital source also. 
Bitstream Dac's
I am not a techie, but in simple terms, bitstream is just how the signal is processed. They are also called 1 bit converters. It was Philips technology. Instead of a 24bit, 20bit, 16bit etc. data stream, the data stream is broken down into 1 bit p... 
BMG Music Club - new twist
I assume the $2.50 per CD postage and handling is enough to cover their costs. So they probably at least break-even if you never order another CD after the initial 12.