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Once you go black, you never go back... Or something like that.

God, there's a lot of them. China Grove comes to mind. I just put China Grove in Genius on iTunes and it generated this (partial) list China Grove (Doobies) Hot Blooded (Foreigner) What's Your Name (Skynyrd) Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) Mama Told Me (Not to Come) (Three Dog Night) Take The Money ANd Run (Steve Miller) Proud Mary (Creedence) Saturday Night's Alright For Fighteing (Elton John) One Of THese Nights (Eagles) Money (Pink Floyd) Rock & Roll Band (Boston) La Grange (ZZ Top) Truckin' (Grateful Dead) Let It Ride (BTO) Cocaine (Clapton) Somebody To Love (Jefferson Airplane) Just a little sampling of the various shit I have in iTunes

I voted other, because DCM Time Windows are kinda weird. they have to faces on the front, about 30° off .plane each. THis is where the speakers are mounted - woofers on top. I have them about 95° from the room centerline, with one of the faces pointing striaght into the room, and the other facing into the back of the room.

My wife likes Enya a lot, but still prefers Klemmer.

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I usual;ly look up can info at HeadWize

I think any discerning audiophile would say exactly that. Speakers are at least 80% (to me) of what makes my system sound good. I'm sure it would sound good with many amps and preamps.

Who'ya callin' a pansy? I'm there.

Damn, Perry, those are pretty enough w/o the grilles to cover them up.

I find shunting other senses when using one helps the enjoyment. I like to listen to music with my eyes closed and not eating or drinking anything. I like to eat ice cream with my eyes closed and not listening to anything.

Well, Queen's Body Language always had a heavy bass track, I knew that. But the Boz Scaggs track surprised me.

I must admit I've listened to it twice now. I had the Dire Straits, ZZ Top and Queen cuts, but only Dire Straits on CD (the others were ripped from vinyl). Had to turn my subwoofer down on that first Boz Scaggs cut (Desire). Man is that a heavy bass track! It was rattling the shutters all over the house.

Thanks for that Steeve — Beagles? Does anybody have a CarverFest logo I can use for cover art?

Rich, I use the JVD modified autocorrelator on my C-4000 to get rid of most noise. I only use digital pop and click very sparingly. It ruins the sparkle in most recordings, and really doesn't get rid of pops and clicks anyway, if they are annoying.

I voted on for WAF. Also, my cleaning lady would probably vacuum my ribbons

When I rip vinyl, I go to WAV at all the bandwidth my DAC can handle (192kHz, 24-bit). Makes a HUGE file for, say, an album. I use some software that guesses where the breaks are based on the track length input and blank space, but it's not very good, and I have to manually adjust every track (a real PITA). I then down-convert the WAV files to Apple lossless. I adjust the sampling rate down to 48kHz, because that's as much as my Squeezeboxes can take, but I keep the WAV files to play direct through my big rig off the attached computer. I do the same with SACDs through the Oppo. For ripping directly from CD (or hybrid SACD), I use Apple lossless directly into iTunes. The only reason I use that codec is that it's what iTunes uses, and iTunes is directly recognizable by the software that runs my Squeezeboxes (SqueezeCenter). I hear FLAC is good too, if you use Winamp as a player.