You ask good questions armstrg --- I guess I can best sum up my feelings about my new 950/7100 purchase by saying "I’m going to keep them". I’m enjoying them more everyday. The harshness, the one shortfall not completely cured by the break-in period, seems to be the greater resolving power of the separates than I experienced with the 1050. In other words the 1050 was more forgiving (I think I used the term bland in my last post) the 950/7100 doesn’t mask a “hot” DVD. I’ve found this to be true with better equipment. Feed the separates good material and they really sing. An important point is that most (by a wide margin) of the DVD’s I watched sounded great.

So, D’Arbignal, you met Ivor Tiefenbrun from Linn? He’s quite a character. There are few companies I respect as much as Linn. I’ve enjoyed the LP-12, & many other Linn products, since they started in the 70’s. And I still have two LP-12. Neither are hooked up to the 950/7100. I use them in a separate two-channel setup.