Gerry, I apologize for seeming like such an unevolved human to you here. As you say, your opinion and your experience are yours. (And do you even wash the M5 yourself, I doubt you do.) Saying things like "Armor All aged the rubber worse than no treatment at all", just sounds extremely silly to me, and defies logic and the experience of me and a multitude of other happy users of the product. I've used it for 14 years on plastics and rubber, and it always eliminated the aging process altogether. Zero. I feel that having a friend that had a competing product has surely scewed your objectivity here. Of course their testing would be designed to make their product seem superior. Whether or not the 331 actually was better in the long run, I don't know. You stating that it DID is not verifiable proof that it did, nor is it proof that Armor All ages rubber more quickly than using no treatment at all. IMHO, that's like saying "the sky isn't blue". TO BMPNYC: If you used Armor All on leather, that's a stupid thing to do! There are plenty of specialized leather oil treatments on the market that you should have known to use. And, I am not a proponet of solely listening to vinyl, I just feel that vinyl is where everyone's primary investment should be right now. I enjoy CD's on my CD50, and feel that it's as good or better than the best digital frontend Gerry or Albert has every owned or tried, period! And it's at least as good as the best non-upsampled red book source you've heard in the studio or in your buddie's homes, too. Better in many ways, because it doesn't go through a linestage, and doesn't control volume by harming the digital domain. It controls it with the best attenuators in the world. If Wadia made an upsampling all-in-one-player (CD/DVD-A) with their terrific slow roll off digital filter (and kept it from rolling off the top octave), and sold it for under $5000, they'd really have something!
