alphonsodamato

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The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same?
Yes, it is now a proven scientific fact, all DACs are exactly the same.  
Reasons not to freak out about tube supplies
Leave it to self-important and entitled Americans to stress out about tubes supplies when there is no shortage and we have bigger fish to fry anyway.  Sheesh.  Are all the hoarders storing their tubes with their toilet paper?  I wonder.  
Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health
I feel for the guy and enjoy his music but wish he had kept his health-related politics to himself.  
MC901 monoblock tube matching Q
My advice to you is to leave it alone.  You didn't spend a bazillion dollars on those jewels to f around with them.  Many years from now when you do need to service them, ask a pro - not a board full of "experts."  
Is it me? Will I ever be satisfied?
Quick answer: NO.  You have an addiction , a fever, and you will never be satisfied until and if the fever/addiction tempers and washes through you.  Eventually you'll get over missing the arrival of the new toy and the hearing the new sound, mayb... 
Buying used vs new speakers from a technology perspective
Depends on how far back you go.  Example: speaker surrounds before the early-mid nineties were made from perishable materials.  Not anymore.  However, electronics always age but in my experience fail only occasionally.  A ten year old speaker shou... 
What is your favorite cover?
It seems nobody listed "Red Red Wine" by UB40, a Neil Diamond cover.  The story goes UB40 thought they were covering a raggae song by N. Diamond from Jamaica, only to learn later they were covering a white Jewish guy from Brooklyn.  Nothing can be... 
Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions
I'd like to thank everyone for your suggestions, I have so many options to research now.  Thanks!  
Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions
Thank you thus far.  FYI: Amp is MC275 VI.  I have Legacy Focus SEs being driving by MC611s in another system and love them.  Perhaps Legacy Signature but I need a smaller footprint for the speakers I want to drive with the MC275.  Also, my pre-am... 
Please settle a bet!
"Im loving the $5/gal gasoline, buying from the Middle East and Russia, despite having the largest oil/natural gas reserves in the world." I'm happy for you, the United States is 9th in oil reserves, not 1st.  I am pretty accustomed to folks clai... 
Please settle a bet!
  roadwhorerecords and lou_setriodes should be banned for injecting blatant and insulting partisan politics into Audiogon.