That Wired series on MP3 and audio?

[thewayne]

Here's the feedback the series generated. It's interesting to raise the hackles of audiophiles, you get people talking about a $300 iPod being an acceptable driver for $85,000 speakers and such as that. While I do not consider myself an audiophile because I can't afford the equipment (thank god!), I do like good audio and I don't like not having been able to set up my audio system here in Cloudcroft. I really need to get together with a guy from the observatory and see if we can brainstorm some method to run speaker cables in a manufactured house with no airspace/crawlspace under the roof.

Oh, and the sidebar links to the third part of the story.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/audiophiles/0,2934,69790,00.html