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No, really? My point is merely to head off a discussion of much belabored topics like double-blind and A/B comparison tests. I wanted to assume that we already know the folly of placebo effects, secondary preference, and all that. I'm as skeptical of tweakery as anyone, but I'm equally...

RE: microhenries and metrics What is smallness? What, ultimately, translates into a meaningful number for HUMAN HEARING? Did you know many of the capacitors in your stereo are measured in picofarads? That's one _trillionth_ of a farad (1x10E-12). Change the size by an order of magnitude or...

BTW, Rob, I didn't catch if your speakers are spiked? If not, I highly recommend spiking. Otherwise, your floor (a suspended design, if I read correctly) will indeed resonate and add a lot of bloom n' boom. If you're concerned about the wood floor, you can stick a piece of felt to a coin and...

LOL, oh you guys. Thanks for the kind comments. As to availability, guess you'll have to ask my boyfriend. ;) who's also pleased to keep my amps in the basement. Erica

Pardon me for adding fuel to the fire, but mechanical vibration can, indeed, affect the sonics of hi-fi equipment. With apologies to any lurking electrical engineering professors: current traveling through a wire will induce a magnetic field about the wire. This field will, in turn, affect...

Krishna, I've been using the MDP-500 for a coupla years now, and have been very pleased with its neutral sonic character and agility for a wide variety of content, even music. Bass management and speaker setup are comprehensive - a critical feature for me, as I have a "challenging"...

Yup, way off topic. Plus car subwoofers should be banned. If I have to hear one more hormone-addled adolescent announcing his presence to the world with some inane bass line I think I'll scream. Sorry to vent. Major pet peeve. Erica Aren't the roads noisy enough?