Dusty Chalk

No. And you're not being unreasonable. L, Kevin Deal even knows what period his came from. I mean, if it's an esoteric tube, you shouldn't expect much variety in your choices, but I still don't think it's unreasonable to ask what brand you'd be getting if you ordered them within the next two days. And I realized you haven't spoiled anything yet, but please keep your fucking television discussions to your fucking selves, cocksuckers. I do intend to watch Deadwood someday, you fucking fucks.

Actually, that was Nate that used a period. He's just more laid back. It's like Sennheiser vs. Grado, w/Nate being the Sennheiser, and you being the Grado. It's not like one is better than the other, some of us don't like exclamation points.

[agreeably]Okay.[/agreeably] But I can't help but wonder if this is what happened.

Rush are amazing live. Jethro Tull are great, too. You going to any of the Genesis dates? Seems like you'd like them. I could be wrong, though.

Oooh...kaaaay...if the thoughts that are provoked are along the lines of "How did such genius go so wildly wrong?" and "WTF?!?!?" I did like the fight scene in the third one, though. With the sonic booms.

FTW! Rock fool head! 'n'all that nonsense.

It's like postjack 1602. You been reading Marvel 1602?

I disagree with this entirely. Redbook and SACD and high-rate PCM are just different. I don't care what sort of processing you do to them, I have yet to hear SACD rendered moot. That said -- I wouldn't worry about getting a disc player at all unless it had more than just redbook capability -- if you're only concerned about redbook, I'd get a media-server type computer and a nice external DAC. But I believe in the shiny, so that's why my recommendations were what they were.

Yeah, but then you rule out SACD and/or DVD-A. Denon 3910, modded by perhaps SACDMods (I'm extremely happy with mine) Ayre C-5xe (MSRP US$5995 -- used should be less) Linn Unidisc SC (MSRP US$4995) McCormack UDP-1 (MSRP US$3495) deluxe Conrad-Johnson version (MSRP US$3995)

It's one of the few that I have...my first, in fact. It's very good, you should see it.

Yeah, but then you wouldn't have the L3000.

That concept rocks my fool head off.

Oh, okay, I could see how you could read it that way...face value...

I lust after them, but I have to admit to never having heard them. I've heard the following: in the early editions with the Beryllium tweeter, they just put a Beryllium tweeter on the old box. With the newer ones, they re-engineered the crossover to compliment the tweeter more. Unfortunately, I do not know where that dividing line is. EDIT: no, wait a minute, I did hear one pair -- either the novas or the divas or something -- their entry level pair in the Utopia line -- they were divine. It only had three drivers and a very slender footprint. Unfortunately, it was north of US$3K, and was more than I was willing to spend at the time. If I had known how cheap of a price the salesperson was quoting me, I woulda bought them in a heartbeat and flipped 'em.

Yeah, I tried a couple different sources, and all of them said that AT requires them to bring in the headphones. They at least need a serial number.

Impossible, without the headphones. I've tried. They've since required you to send in your headphones to get repaired, I.E. they will not sell the drivers without the rest of the headphones.

Oh, I thought you meant the powered monitors they offer. I've heard good things about them, but as far as I know, they have no US presence. link

Yes you do.

No, gay men love hard wood.

I've seen them on audiogon, though admittedly very infrequently. Uh, I understand about being hesitant -- but some dealers are just in-store kind of people, or phone kind of people. I would be hesitant to do business with them over the internet, but you might try calling them or visiting them.

Aw, dude, that's fucked up. link Email, ask who you have locally that would sell them to you?

Yeah, good times.

I stand corrected. I knew it didn't make sense, but had a brain fart as to what was correct.

Yes they do.

What JMLabs monitors are in that price range, and where would one get them? Yeah, those Adams sound delish with those ribbon tweeters. And that's probably a really good suggestion, as studio monitors are usually designed for nearfield listening. But that's only if the Galante Rhapsodies don't work out for you, which I'm sure they will.