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I guess it's all a matter of taste. I heard the SACD and vinyl version of the same album recently, on a system I would describe as being pretty close to state of the art. I preferred the vinyl, but there were several areas in which the SACD was definitely better.

I doubt it. I just said 3 because it's easier to build or buy pairs of channels. You could see if Doc B. will sell you 2 1/2 Foreplay parts :) Some of the electronics is shared between the channels though, so you might need to redesign things a little bit if you decide to build a single channel...

Go to www.audioasylum.com and check out the Bottlehead forum. They sell a preamp kit called the Foreplay - $150 for the basic kit, $300 with upgrades. People with zero prior soldering experience have successfully built this, with no hum/buzz/hiss problems. The instructions are excellent, and you...

Wow, that's interesting. My guess for SS would be amp B. Or is it amp A :) I wonder if knowing the prices would make a difference. Just goes to show how little you can tell of a piece of equipment just from its numbers, especially when the manufacturer's name is removed from the equation. OK, I...

And why exactly do you want the laser turntable?

I met my wife online. She came to visit me when I was still in India. My ever helpful sister offered me this advice prior to our first face-to-face meeting: If you run out of things to say, write your messages on pieces of paper, hold up a carboard rectangle between your faces and pass the paper...

Hm. My response wasn't meant to be semi serious at all. Guess I should have put in the smileys, I thought the drollness was obvious. Oh well. Here: :) :)

Hmm.... I vacillated for a long time between the Aurum Beta S and the Dynavector 10x4 (based on reviews, I don't have anywhere I can easily listen to them), and finally got the Dyna. No regrets whatsoever. The fact that I got it new at a used price (someone had bought it but hadn't mounted it)...

A Koetsu with a P3? That's interesting... though I just checked prices on that cartridge, and they're not quite as astronomical as I thought they would be :)

OK. I closed both my eyes (to ensure it was double blind) and listened to the amps after the cap swap, and thought they sounded better. Is that good enough? ;)

kevitra, Glad to hear you're enjoying the Waves. I was pretty surprised at how loud they could play too, and my speakers are only 88dB. In fact, I borrowed them from a dealer for a week to make sure that they'd be powerful enough for me. They also sound a lot smoother than the NAD C340 they...

Ah yes, Holman's phono stages, especially the one in the NAD 1020/3020. That's legendary. I've heard great things about AR turntables too, never owned one though.

:) This is probably not going to get resolved here, since it hasn't been resolved for the last several decades. I've said this before - if anyone is in the San Francisco bay area and wants to see what 8W amps and a $2K total budget can do, you're welcome to drop by my place. I don't think I...

That post came off as sounding more disgruntled than I intended :)

I thought the RIAA compensation curve boosted the bass and attenuated the treble. In other words, the information on the record had teh bass attenuated and the treble boosted. Not a U shape or A shape.

One more post to wrap it up. IMO, there are good implementations of tube amps, and there are bad ones. Just as there are good and bad implementations of SS amps. When it's done right, both SS and tubes can sound excellent. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and matching the associated...

Well, I've been using tubes in my system for a few months now, and I find the sound more to my liking than when I had solid state.