What is your favorite source component, analog or digital, and why do you like it?
Next, we move up the chain to the front-end---where the music starts.
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What types of interconnects and speaker cables do you use in your system?
An audio system is not a system unless you hook it all together. How do you do it?
What do you sit in when listening to your system?
Reader Doug Cline just bought a new La-Z-Boy and likes the way it feels, but wonders about its effect on the sound. What do you prefer for listening?
Describe the floor in your listening room.
Now that we know a little about what you sit in while listening, how about the room you listen in?
Who else is allowed to use/control your audio system?
Reader Louis McFarlane asks a question that may touch a nerve or two among audiophiles.
Would DVD-Audio copy-protection schemes alter your view of the format?
One of the hang-ups preventing DVD-Audio from moving forward is the fear that high-quality digital signals make piracy too easy. As a result, the format will likely incorporate various copy-protection schemes---possibly including watermarking. Does this matter to you?
Is back-compatibility with CD players important to you with any new high-resolution audio format?
Sony and Philips claim that a big advantage to SACD is that the high-resolution SACD discs can be back-compatible with regular CD players. DVD-Audio proponents say that DVD-Audio discs can be made back-compatible with CD players as well if consumers want it. Do you want it?
Is buying more and more new music a compulsion for you?
Reader Patrick Tracy claims that he's addicted to buying music: "As in the studies of lab mice and cocaine, I will repeatedly choose music over most any other pursuit. Like a longtime drug addict, I now need larger and larger doses of new music to achieve the rush that a single recording might give a normal person."<P>How about you?
Where do you buy most of your new music?
The responses to last week's poll triggered interest in this week's question from many readers.
What is the crown jewel in your music collection?
Is there a single CD or LP that holds significant value for you? Is it an old ratty copy of your first record ever bought, or a pricey, collectible piece of vinyl?