Can anybody help me remember the test cd at Yodobashi Akiba?  Some time in the last year they made a uniform CD for all their tests.  The first 5 or so tracks are jazz.  I think #4 is Wes Montgomery's Eleanor Rigby, #5 is Getz's Wave.  Then comes classical; #6 is Beethoven 9.  The last three...

I've searched but can't find a thread on this:  is there a release date and price on the PXC 360s?

My searching skills are weak, but I can't find this topic addressed elsewhere.  Has anyone compared a stock Woo WES with a maxed one, or even one that is partially maxed (upgraded tubes, etc.)?  How significant is the difference?  

  I realize that what I am about to type is not the norm  -- so please just think of it as a thought experiment.  I have the 2050 basic system, with the 252 amp and the 202 headphones.   Suppose that I wanted to upgrade, and upgrade to the top, and the upgrade would fall out of the sky...

What are the ethics and norms here of negative feedback? I have two situations. 1. I bought an item from a forum sponsor 2 months and 1 day ago. The sponsor emailed to say it would be sent the following day. It has not arrived, and the sponsor does not respond to my emails. 2. A member...

I have more headphones than I can justify. Some people have more (and will laugh at me), some people have less (and will laugh at my "dilemma"), but after I received my JH13 pros, I have more than I can justify. My other main headphones are the AKG K1000s (with a Signature 30.2 amp), the JVC...

Are there any Hip-Hop CDs with seriously high sound quality -- DCC Gold/Mofi/SACD quality? I was a big listener until around 2000 or so. I'd like to get reacquainted now that I have a decent rig, but I don't know what to buy. My old CDs sound, uh, crappy.

I love the HD800s, straight out of the box. But I've never heard K1000s, and I have an opportunity to buy. Is the K1000 sound so significantly different from the HD800s, various Grados, and JVC DX1000s that I should give them a try?

I see 4 versions on amazon: 1. A 1997 (original?) release on the pid label. 2. A 1998 release on the Demon UK label. 3. A 1998 release on Capitol. 4. A 2006 release by Vision Music. Any idea if any of these haver higher SQ than the other?

I downgraded from a Gilchrist (= HD800) to a Collings (= RS2) to finance my head-fi habit (but I still have my mandocello (= DX1000)!). Does anybody know what I'm talking about enough to sympathize?

Are there tipping points for price/quality of cables? For instance, say I want to buy a 1m RCA interconnect. Is there a substantial improvement over the wires that come for free in the box if you spend $100, no improvement after that until you spend $300, and then to get better you've get to...

I'm putting together my system piece by piece. I am playing FLACs on my macbook and CDs on my Esoteric/TEAC SA-10, each through (wince) the pico, which is holding its own for now. I have a couple of things on order that will relegate the Pico to portable status: a Zana Deux SE and the new Red...

I recently bought some GS1000s for home listening. I use them with ipod as well as out of my macbook air with Pico USB/dac. Sounds fantastic; I'm happy with that purchase for all the reasons that people generally are happy with GS1000s. Here's the issue: Using the GS1000s, I can't hear a...