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Best debut album
Angelina Jordan 
Best DAC for around $2,500 or less
I've has the Chord Cutest and their TT and am now using the RME ADI-2, Very happy with it feeding directly into my Luxman MQ-88. Save some money' it's only $1100! 
Looking for an integrated amp around 4000 to 5000.
I have an almost mint ML 585 that's currently boxed located SoCal. PM me if interested,Cheers 
Time to move UP, speaker-wise...
Try reading Steve Deckart's forum posts on his Big Betsy speaker design. Extraordinarily informative from the man behind Decware:https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1561942815 
I'm still mystified...
What's the difficulty here guys?  Just add the 3% to your asking price and offer a 3% discount for cash.  Simple stuff seeing as both PayPal and Visa/MC don't allow merchants to upcharge for using their services.  I'm surprised Audiogon hasn't sto... 
A vote for the little guy suppliers
Steve @ Decware.  Had a hum in his new preamp and he replaced tubes and paid for return shipping no questions asked.  What a gentleman.Dan @ Modwright. Exceptional job on my BD105.  A real class act. 
Speaker jumpers
On my 805's and 803's I was happy with the stock jumpers and very inexpensive cabling throughout until my mocking "audiophile" friend loaned me some Nordost speaker cables. Different, not necessarily better, but certainly different. So now I have ... 
What has your audiophile experience taught you about yourself?
There's no fool like an old fool! 
Item not working properly
I very recently experienced an annoying intermittent muting problem with a Japanese preamp purchased through this site.  Had a high end salesman friend check it out and no, it was not my clumsiness with the volume/mute control.  Contacted the deal... 
looking for ideas on a tube pre amp
You might consider the new DECWARE ZEN TRIODE PREAMP (ZPTPRE)...  Up to 3 fully balanced inputs, dual mono construction, guaranteed for LIFE!, starting out at under $2K, and handmade with point to point wiring right here in the good old USA.  Mine... 
Anything you liked at the Newport Show?
Sorry no-one mentioned the Raidho rooms as yet.  They sounded fabulous driven by their new (gulp) $30K amplifier.  I was only looking for costs involved in upgrading my Raidho D1s to D1.1s (now shipping them to Denmark this Tuesday based on good n...