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Last 4 Years - Votes for Best Speaker Ever Heard
It appears that the clear winners are Piega and Apogee. The number of votes on these two speakers are the highest if I'm reading this correctly. It's no suprise seeing as they both are Ribbons. 
New EMM LABS transport
Please accept our invitation to audition it for yourself. We are having a full multichannel seminar at our new store in Southwest Virginia, Smith Mountain Sound and Cinema, on August the 25th-28th. We will be showing the full line up of Meitner al... 
hi-end universal players?
The Lexicon. A company with a history. It works all the time and sounds great. 
Hotrod your Hermes
I think you may be right.I believe some of the dac buyers thought they were getting upsampling.It does make a dramatic difference especially since you're basically doing standard 16\44.There are numerous ways to achieve upsampling and only a very ... 
Hotrod your Hermes
Am I understanding this is not upsampling and it was said to be and sold this way? 
The best speaker you ever heard?
Check out the new Piega c-40.It is killer 
Superb PHONO Preamp ?
Have you heard audio tekne if not you haven't heard the best..... 
Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts
Greatful Dead- Allmans 1973 rfkBruce Springsteen 1975,78.80.81,etcetcTraffic with Dave Mason as part of the band 1970Jimi Hendrix 1968Frank Zappa & Captain Beefhart sometime in the mid 70'sThese are but a very very few as I have attended many ... 
Upsampling disadvantges, mutliplying the mistakes??
Your thoughts are pretty much right on as far as multipling the mistakes.If you increase word lenght through conventional techniks you increase proportionaly the jitter.The only player and dac that do not do this is the Audiomeca units due to down... 
Arcam FMJ 23/CD92 versus Resolution Audio CD50
Be sure to audition the new to the states AVM player,It is the unit Piega uses and recommends to show their equipment world wide.It will be displayed at CES in Jan.along with all the pre and power amps.German made and beautiful. 
Small footprint speakers
Check out the review in Absolute Sound current issue for the piega p-10.They have a small brother called p-8 limited at the same level of performance but smaller footprint. 
What speaker for Plinius SA-250 MK IV
PIEGA P-10.THIS SPEAKER IS INCLUDED IN ABSOLUTE SOUNDS RECOMMENDED SYSTEM IN THE CURRENT ISSUE FOR THE 90,000.00 SYSTEM .THEY RETAIL AT 9999.00 AND ARE A HYBRID RIBBON WITH MID AND TWEETS MADE BY PIEGA.FOLLOW THERE EXPOSURE AT HIFI2001 IN NYC NEXT... 
As a Lamm owner
I think you'll find it is typical audiophile purchasing habits that make a few pairs of these available on the used market.If you look closely there are only 1 or 2 pairs for sale used .Someone is leaving a sold pair listed and it may be a competi... 
HALCRO Amplifiers
There is no NJ dealer.Delve Audio has a pair of the amps he bought for his own system.He aquires the amps direct to customers from Sanibel Sound who is the distributor and retails this product to customers. 
Heaviest Amps ever made.
The new inductive amps to be introduced next year tubes and a 4000lb power supply