opinions on Coincident vs. HT Pro9

Thanks K, it's good to know. Actually, in time, my next upgrade will probably be all those well-placed absorptive women around my cement room. It could very well be the most expensive uppgrade yet, perhaps the most fulfilling, defintely the most dangerous.

I support you jay. And if you ever can't get in touch with your dealer, mine are on call 24/7. They sell very nice high quality stuff; new shipments of exotic all the time. You just let me know and I'll see to it you get whatever fix you need.

Wow! I got the Coincidents. Oh yeah. Beautiful wires, nicely put together, big thick spades, top notch. Anyway, 'right out of the box' as they say, they are better than my DH Labs T14, (which kept me happy for a long time, until I got better equipment where I'd hear the difference). Yup, better soundstage, dynamics, my speakers are disappearing even more now. I love it. I so look forward to hearing the sound improve over the next couple hundred hours too. Like I said, it's happily ever after from here on ;-)

jay, thanks for the update. did you get the powercords too?

Yeah I've had the CST power cords for a couple months now. One on the Cary CD303 and one on the sli80. I was amazed at how they really did improve things, but it took time! I had forgotten about them after a while, but then couldn't figure out why the sound was getting better by the week, it was great. I also plug them into a Chang 6400, which helps sonically too- but my case may be an extreme one- I have very poor, dirty, unreliable power where I live, AND there are 4 fridges, probably ~20 ceiling fans, and 12 AC units in the house I live in, so the Chang probably cleans things up a little. I'm hoping now I'll stay happy for a while and reign in my tweak fetish, maybe stick to tube rolling for a while, upgrade my CD collection.