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Review: Jim Smith Home Consultation & Set Up Speaker
Happy to provide some additional detail. First, the price is $1,500 for an overnight visit. In my situation, this entailed picking him up from the airport around 5pm and then coming directly to the house for some initial evaluations and measuremen... 
SHM-CDs and digital files
I do this all the time and yes, the SHM advantage does transfer to the digital rips. Of course, there are many bad SHM discs, so it's not a miracle technology, but the good ones are amazing, and in my opinion, better than SACD equivalents of the s... 
Anyone heard the New Luxman gear?
Frontier1, I just purchased the C 600F preamp. It replaced a very good VAC Standard Mk II tube pre. I would characterize the sound as very rich, mellow but still excellent transparency. It is perhaps a little more closed in than the VAC, but still... 
Pioneer EX Speakers
Kal is correct. If you do a google search on Pioneer S-3EX, you'll pull up quite a few hits. Unfortunately most of them are in Japanese, and then translated to English by google, but at least you can find some general info. 
Pioneer EX Speakers
I live in Japan and actually have had a chance to listen to the S-1ex, as well as the newest model, the S-3ex - It is exactly the same as s-1ex, but has smaller dimensions and instead of a beryllium tweeter, it has a 'ceramic graphite' tweeter. Re... 
Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments?
This thread is a great resource. I too am considering replacing some Purist Audio Design Musaeus biwire speaker cables. However, mine are a couple of years old and were the original release. I believe that the most recent version is a Rev. C - so ...