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I'll have to agree and disagree on the grounds that some of the 650's I've heard sound drastically different from each other. I don't know if it's break in effects or sample variations, but I've heard a 650 which sounded remarkably similar to a 600 and a 650 which sounded nothing like a 600, both of them out of the same gear. Up until I heard the latter pair, I had no idea what people were talking about when they said the 650 had fat boomy bass.

Go tubes, and transformers. That would my personal first choice for something you can buy off the shelf. I've heard one and it sounds great.

Same here. I figured I'd wait till Bestbuy drops the price down to $10 or so before I pick up a copy since I already have the original version from my high school days.

In this case I'd say the best thing you can do is spend the next few months to a year listening to as many speaker setups as you possibly can. Audition a bit of everything, electrostatics, horns, ribbons, single driver speakers, speakers with 10 drivers per side, high efficiency, low efficiency and everything in between. Find out what you like and don't like, and try to learn the whys behind it. After you've heard a bunch of stuff you'll start seeing which direction you want to go in and what's important to you, then you can make a short list of speakers and make your purchase after a further round of auditions. Then you can worry about the amps.

Well, in that case you'll really love SACD, and any CD player or DAC which uses a single-bit D/A converter chip.

I think you should get Magico Mini's since you don't have a price range.

Ask KG. He designed one some time back, but I don't remember how far along the build process got.

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Get a chorus line of go-go girls to perform in the office.

I think that's pretty much what it is, but Nik doesn't do as much damage since few people can afford his stuff and he came off sounding a bit loopy back in the day. Don't know how things are these days though.

The lite version of LTUCCI1924.

Indifferent. I barely watch TV or movies these days so it doesn't really affect me. It's not an important issue by any means so I can't bring myself to care.

You should re-edit it again to say it's the worst thing you've ever heard and a complete waste of money and see what happens.

To be honest I'm a lot more excited by the Tesla electric roadster than I am by the wanked out supercars various companies are coming up with these days. Most car companies these days don't fucking get it, their cars are too damn heavy and require huge engines & huge tires to have any kind of decent performance. I could probably count the number of high performance cars which weigh less than 3200 pounds on one hand, 3200 pounds being the weight of my midsize V6 family sedan.

Whatever Nik owns is the "greatest thing in the world". Until he sells it. Again.

Don't care, I have more important things to think about, such as life in a world of permanently declining oil production.

The Cheesesteak is truly the king of sandwiches.

So basically he wants to sell you a $4150 power cord for $1500 or so...

Heh, nothing like free stuff! Reminds me of the time I got a free Bolder Cable power cord just for showing up at a meeting of the local audio group.

Yes, the RSA Stealth. An active pre-amp which has a higher output impedance than a simple passive pot, truly a breakthrough in circuit design.

Well, other than killing you dead and blowing up your speakers there's not much of a problem...

If you're referring to Trose, no doubt. But that Tmij dude has some seriously good stuff.

Yep, you'll need 32V or so to run the amp at full volume with a gain of 11 from the iPod line out. Whether you'll ever crank it up that much is a whole other question...