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I use MS914 towers front and back and another MS center, 904C , if not mistaken. They sound more detailed and the bass more defined than some other brands within their price range. They are not the best, but they are among the handsomest and neatest looking speakers around. The excellent built...

I am not familiar with "hiss" in NAD amps though that could certainly come from your source materials, or some ungrounded RCA cable that also gives off "hum." But I have encountered a set-up with very sensitive tweeters that exhibit a hiss coming from whatever amplifier is used with them...

The first CD I bought was an EMI CD of a Paganini Violin Concerto by Itzhak Perlman and an orchestra I can't remember. That CD is now with a colleague. And in my effort to change all my LPs into their CD transciptions, I was fortunate enough to get a TELARC CD of Lorin Mazel's Tchaikovsky 4th...

How to choose is really a matter of personal value preference based on even just a little but basic knowledge. Personally, with most mass market products in the flagship price points, I probably can't go wrong with any brand. Aesthetics or looks often enter the picture. Do you want an all...

Thanks for the info, will look for one in my next upgrade. I had thought that the Creative Labs audigy series was proffessional enough, I apparently was misinformed. You're not the first I heard with this sentiment. I can agree, though you have to credit them for making some right finds...

Knowing how much you love statistics, I hope you wouldn't mind me asking what are the odds that there are more dreadful sounding gears in the pricey category than there are in the el cheapo category?

Well, either what you're saying is true, or we just aren't looking hard enough. Maybe there are already such gadgets somewhere. At least the potentials for what you want are there. Maybe the market in the broader sense isn't ready for it as what the market researchers from audio vendors have...

That's true. I really wish the computer makers and audio makers can get their acts together to simplify standardizing on these connections. They're supposed to be on a convergent path towards what they call "infotainment." Seems they are making the path unecessarily harder for consumers to...

I would suggest that you google search the brands and check out some reviews, consumer or professional. Both amplifier brands are excellent. I am not so sure about the speaker brands though. But given the choice, I would go for the Rotel set-up. Pardon my preferrence for most anything...

Hybrid integrated amps seem to provide the compromise between tube sound and the hefty power of solid states. So I would go for one if you can afford it and that's where your ears are egging you to go.

Wow!!!! Another thousand dollar gizmo that will satisfy the rich and the indulgent in their minds and hopefully result in more sonically euphonic cables to titillate the aural imagination!!!! Well, if there are people who find VALUE in such gizmos and can afford to luxuriate in them, what...

The reasons are stated elsewhere. I don't see how statistics can contribute to my enjoyment in this hobby. But if they do for you, you can have them. Facts and reality? The fact is that statistics is all probabilities. Nothing more. If you and your ilk put weight on probabilities, be...

You may want to try using a small ordinary TV monitor first. If it works there, it should work on the projector as they both accept the same composite, component or s-video signals, right? Just a note, not all receivers pass On Screen Menu to the component route, so an s-video will have to...

I would suggest you connect both the S/PDIF output of your PC and DVD player to a multichannel receiver with a set of digital input so you can switch to either. IF you are content with PC speakers, then a line level switch is needed, but I am not aware of any standalone swtich that accepts...

I didn't know getting support is more important than your conviction. I don't join forums to get support. If you do, you certainly have some insecurity complexes that only a support group can address. Talking about prejudices, your panhandle reeks of it. :p Nothing to be ashamed of...

The way you described it sounds very promising, and certainly worth having both integrated into your hobby. I have my own PC serving as a wav server connected to my preamp via S/PDIF so I can just point and click the music I want to hear in those days when I just feel like not popping a CD or...

You probably are. Good for you.

I've never doubted that. I just don't see its relevance in this hobby. Why there has to be a contest in the pursuit of a personal indulgence escapes me entirely.

LOL!! The prejudice over mass market receivers indulged in this forum is just as telling. But hey, wasn't I who also said that this hobby is about prejudices? My apologies for hurting your sensibilities on your own prejudices and others in this forum.

My ears. And that's all that matters in my hobby. You may salivate with your empirical and statistical evidence for all i care. But they won't increase one bit my enjoyment in the hobby. And anything that doesn't contribute to enjoying in this hobby goes straight to the waste basket.