Wowzers, BR03 is on my list ever since I saw one in person. Its real sharp. Too bad they cost quite a bit. 

Quote: Absolutely stunning. One of the finest watches you can buy without going into ridiculous price territory. I doubt I'd ever be in a position to own something like that, but one can dream. Wear it in good health and I hope your son can grow up to appreciate such a fine timepiece, its...

One thing I would say though is to not buy something just because its a gold disc or MFSL. Sometimes the albums they put out were never high quality recordings to begin with, and unless you enjoy the music and are a real fan of the particular album, you aint gonna get too much out of it. But if...

Quote: YES, you nailed it, thats what annoys me the most in this album. There are some very nice melodies that have great potential with jarring loud or out of melody bits seemingly randomly popping up just to appear to be proggy Crimson like or Yes like. The dark tone and soft mood ...

Quote: Hey, thanks for a cool rec. I am listening to their previous album "Tall Poppy Syndrome" and am really digging it. Will check out Bilateral soon. Great find, thanks!  

Yeah I had this craving for an EPIC departure bang in the middle somewhere going into some heavy stuff, to add more dynamics, but this is the band trying something completely different and not trying to just add to what they do, instead they have set aside Opeth for a bit to give us a different...

Watershed + Steve Wilson + past influences like King Crimson and Deep Purple - thundering riffs - death growls - blast beats = Heritage   atleast based on first listen    

Those wharfs do look very nice inded

The new Pioneer bookshelf from bestbuy has been getting a lot of positive reviews for its price. This might be your cheapest and best bet.   The RC-Mini's are real good and a definite step up from these, if you can find a good price for them, get them, but I wouldnt pay full price for them...

Is this really true? Can someone confirm this, I keep hearing Omega's are going to go up in price real soon, even the ones out there right now. Or is it just partially true?

Quote: Or possibly pushed to the back of the shelves in a few days and never heard of again :)

All the more why you should go the used route then, any decent looking active speaker is certainly going to grab attention.

I'm guessing you mean active speakers. Its gonna be a bit hard to find good active speakers for 100$, the ones that are there will probably not survive too long in an outdoors style environment with lots of dust and heat. Especially stuff like the M audio AV-30 which is already notorious for...

I have a bad feeling Social Network is going to walk away with a lot of awards, please tell me that wont happen.

Well here's hoping we'll get a great album. Alteast Radiohead is still alive and kicking. This certainly helps get over the collapse of some of the big bands like White Stripes, Portnoy leaving DT, Frusciante leaving RHCP, and loss of some greats like DIO and Peter Steele just to name a few off...

Like the design, not the color. But waay too pricey.

The thing I noticed with these higher depth Oris watches is how tall/thick they are. Not everyone likes styling like this, I for one dont prefer watches that wear like a hockey puck.   But Oris is a solid brand, a tad over priced at retail, but you can find some good prices on them online if...

I'd go with the bookshelves, floorstanders tend to be hard to work with in confined spaces and 12x9 is small as it is, and I'm sure you'll have some sort of furniture as well. Not quite the setting for floorstanders IMO.

Ooh yeah I'd like that, I'd totally get that if anyone knew where.

Thats actually a tough call, you would have to listen to them to see, but AV40's connected to the 0202 can sound pretty decent IMO.

Well its not like everyone who uses power cables or audiophile power strips/filters end up upgrading wall sockets and power lines. In fact majority of the people just shove it into the regular wall socket and are quite happy with it. Without trying one out its hard to get opinions on this matter...

It will work, it will do as good or a better job than any of the super cheap amps and low end stereo receivers so unless you get an integrated amp or something you arent gonna lose anything by using that sanyo unit.

Well AFAIK the Ikon 2's have been going for around 750 ish for a while now. Where are you getting the A-S300 from? I dont think I've seen them in the US so far, but I do see them for around 200 pounds or 250 euros online. Since you said you are getting the Ikon2 for 650 (which is definitely a...

You can only use your headphone amp as an amplifier. You cannot use it as a DAC with SACD. You'll just need to take RCA L and R from the SACD player and connect it to you HP amp and pick the 2channel area on the SACD player and you can listen to SACDs.   Optical or coaxial cannot take SACD...

The only way AFAIK to get digital out from SACD player is through HDMI as thats the only connection with enough bandwidth to accomodate the data. You'll need a SACD player that can do HDMI and send SACD over HDMI and a receiver capable of decoding LPCM and the DAC in the receiver will be used to...