I'm thinking that youngsters are getting burned .

Herman, I'm glad I'm not you(as far as attacks). I want to mention that price does not equate automatically to quality. I know that you were probably attacked unfairly in this area. I just want you to remember when you were broke-when you had to make do. Did you not learn something from that. Something that has real meaning to you today. I've been attacked(as you probably have guessed), also. If, when you were broke, learned something that stuck to you to this day-what does that mean?

I lost my response again. I think it happens with the shift bar. Anyhow, the young have memory: the old do not. I encourage the young to get involved in this hobby. While the old can outspend you, you've got memory(which they don't have), have time, and can hear high-frequencies(which they cannot). I'm now expecting you youngsters to tell us oldsters something!

I spent $2500 on my(admittedly good) APL Hi-Fi's Denon 3910 cd player(a class-C Stereophile recommendation before modification). I spent over $3700 on my turntable setup. I just remember that I learned almost all I know about audio when I was broke. For one, my memory was good(which is no longer the case{I'm 54}. The second is that I didn't have much money-I had to make do. I want to mention to those with no money the Zhalou(read about it on Head-Fi). We are old and fat now. We are not the future. With that in mind, I want to add Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" to those twenty discs we are supposed to come up with. Herman, I suggest that you drive the early Porshce's and compare them to later Porshce's to see if your comment(which is similiar to others) is correct. We are no longer the future. We need the youngster's input! You would not believe what I came up with when I had no money(I've gotten respect from Walker and Mana from what I learned when I was broke.).

Kthomas, I have a cd called, "Listen Picks", where they claim they have listened to all the music on the Web, and these are the songs that they like best. I'm guessing they are all compressed. Guess what, they sound horrible, compared to cd's. I know that there has been statements about you can't hear the difference. Remember direct-drive turntables, where you had to put in the missing stuff? That's how I would describe compressed recordings. The best of the bunch concentrate on midrange, but even there, you have to provide the missing info with your head.