Dave Harman: >I read your post a number of times and darned if I don't keep coming >up with the conclusion: you care more about the technology and the sound >that new format makes possible than you do about the music the technology >makes it possible to hear. It's an aspect of the overall listening experience that I happen to be interested in at the moment. I discovered and fell in love with most of the repertoire on a $60 Soundesign stereo. I think interest and research in sound reproduction is a noble pursuit. Our scientists are either making bombs that are too smart or CD players that are too smart. I'm not going to apologize for a passing interest in playback technology. I know all these postings are a little off-topic, but my friends aren't interested in the music or the technology, so here I am. >I hope you finally get around to appreciating the really wonderful >music all that technology makes it possible to hear. I don't expect you to know everything about me, but my degree was in music, I did time in the trenches teaching music, I write music, and I make time to go to the symphony to pay living players. None of the above required plugging something in. John Smyth Sac, CA