I hope break in is true

Never purchsed from MD...but

http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=ACARCD

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Looks like MD sells both Ayre, Granite Audio, plus a Purist Audio Enhancer! 3 choices...

Thanks, guys!

Music Direct does stock these discs. If you are open to doing business with them, call and ask for Bes : )

As previously mentioned, the Ayre disc has several seconds of silence at the beginings of tracks 1 & 7. Do NOT crank up your volume thinking that something is wrong, otherwise you're going to pop something when the disc starts playing the 5 Hz tone at volume. Start off slow and work your volume up from there. This WILL give your woofers a massive work-out, especially below the point of port tuning on vented speakers. As the signal frequency rises, it also becomes easy to pop tweeters, so proceed with caution.

As a side note, sit in the sweet spot and listen to your system as it performs the "Cardas" sweep. Pretty interesting to see how the center image shifts as frequency is altered. This has to do with both the radiation pattern of the speakers and how it interacts with room loading characteristics. The more that the center image walks around, the more work you have to do on speaker placement and / or room treatments. Sean
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Picked up one of the ayre discs today...this should be interesting. I'll report back what I find.

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