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So here's what I ended up with, along with ARC PH3 phono stage. I have Grado Gold cartridge on it right now while I save up for something better down the road. I plan on heading to a local used vinyl store soon.

Nice. I should be catching up on the episodes in few days - the benefit of having a friend with a TiVo. Which's from one my favorite sketch they've done.

Agreed. I do need to catch up on the second season episodes, though.

Woohoo!

Second that notion, since Justin has also mentioned that he's not planning on offering both modules once he rolls out the new modules.

I kind of want to grab one, though I'd have no use for it. It doesn't help that I don't have any high impedance headphones.

Kevin (or anyone else), Any idea how good (or bad) this stuff is? http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=displayproduct&lstdispproductid=460942&e_categoryid=111&e_pcodeid=66315

Damn.

But no green pair, Alex?

McIntosh meters sure do look pertty, though. I love their blue displays.

Man, I'm envious. So you're brinking that behemoth to the next area meet, right?

Damn! How much does that beast weigh? Do I dare ask the total cost?

I don't know how I missed that bit when I first read your post, but now I'm looking forward to that! I remember that NAD player, though I think when I heard it a while back, it hadn't been modded yet.

Maybe if someone would buy the damn Stax rig, I'll get to go vinyl. Or perhaps I'll just keep the rig if I keep getting low-ball offers. LOL.

Wait, you're finally going to have a digital source again, too? Damn, what is this world coming to?

Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh eggs. Today's post is brought you by numbers 13 and 666. Ethan, here's hoping you get your Denon back soon so we can have another get together.

Yeah, that scared me off of SACD 1000 when I was looking at it a while back. Glad to hear you haven't had any problem with yours, though.

That's a great news, Ethan! Maybe pick up another Exemplar off of Audiogon? They show up there often for a great price, but I think you knew that already. You know, your misfortunes (and Nate's) with sources are making me want get myself a backup source as well. (knocks on wood)

Ethan, I love your new custom title, btw.

Okay, so I did the math wrong, the price range probably would be around $3K. My head wasn't working too well from working too hard.

No problem on modded or used player, though I think I'd rather get it new.

If I do go digital upgrade route, I'd probably have about $4K to 4.5K. Still, the lure of the vinyl is still strong, especially after talking to few vinyl folks. I hate this hobby.

You can buy them from me if I do decide to sell them. Maybe so. As much as I'm intrigued by vinyl, I'm also tempted to go all out and upgrade the digital front. The difficulty is that I'd like for it to be able to play SACD (universal would be nice, but I can deal with not having DVD/DVD-A) and that narrows the choice down some. Any opinions on high-end SACD or universal players? I did briefly look at Opus 21, but it doesn't do SACD and right now, I believe there's a fairly long wait for a new unit. EDIT - Another thing in favor of digital upgrade is that hassles of vinyl scares me more than anything, especially since I may be moving around couple of times in the next year or so.

Thanks for the replies, guys. I'm still in a limbo as to whether I'm going to go ahead with this. Of course another option is to sell my Stax rig and DV-50 and upgrade my digital source altogether - I doubt I can get anything that would make it worthwhile (on the digital front), though.

So ever since I've gotten into headphones couple of years back, I've been intrigued by vinyl. Everytime I think about pursuing vinyl, I tell myself it's too much of a pain and I stop thinking about it. It helps in that I know very little about vinyl. Of late, I've been pondering if I should just sell one of my rigs (most likely the Stax rig) and get a vinyl setup. What do you all think of that, and vinyl in general?