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What turntable for 1000
Well Tempered record player, newer the better, used at $500-$750, Koetsu Black lo hours from good seller $250 used. Get a used stand and use vibrapod/MDF sandwich as top shelf. 
What's most important to WAF-size, shape, finish?
Regardless of what they say, size is important....Er, on stereo, all three, or none preferably; as in no speakers. If you have to ask us, then probably you have to ask her, and if you have to ask that much, you're not going to get much. 
Preamp Deal of the Century
Jewel, let me know how you like the Virtual PC on the Supra when you get it. Thanks. 
Fraud alert Fair warning to Audiogoners.
People need to get over themselves; as in, being watchdogs for political correctness, culturally-based or not. It is a fact, that no amount of cultural relativism can cure, that different cultures possess different general modes of discourse, incl... 
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Point taken. Petty it is, mea culpa, regardless of the merits. I don't like to appease anonymous pot-shotters -they only do it again later - but at some point, perhaps any point, one should just take the high road. Thank you for reminding me. Who ... 
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Slawney, some guy calls me (Bwhite), who I don't even know, and asks me what I'd do if I were him and had his system. I tell him and give hime some options. THIS IS THE SAME THING I DID FOR YOU. I'm guessing you ended up not liking my advice down ... 
Time to get things straight.
Oh my God, now looking at my TNT4/Graham2 I realize the error of my ways! Yes, yes, I know, not fair in a 1200/Rega comparison... Yes, the high end is an incestuous marketing mill, but that doesn't necessarily negate all "hi end" products. That sa... 
Interconnects for tube equipment?
1. pr of discontinued AudioNote (Kondo) Vz series IC's (@$350 used)2. NBS King Serpent II.5 (red jacket) IC's (@$350 used, be careful of knockoffs)Heard someone with a good SE system really liked the Bear labs stuff too. 
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Sead: you didn't "scar me emotionally" thats just your histrionics taking over again. You called me a hipocrite, a psuedo-intellectual, and a bunch of other things I'm not going to bother going back to see, when I just asked you to say why you sai... 
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Ok, Slawney, let us see...1. I dealt with you in the same way I dealt with BWhite. Given your prior experience with me in personal, one-on-one detailed discusions on the very same cable, namely, NBS Statement, what did you think I meant by "push" ... 
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Yes, Slawney, I'll correct you.1. Where do you get off insinuating that I "personally" got someone to buy cable and now have some kind of vested "personal" interest that they keep them? You'd better read this stuff again because you are thinking t... 
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Bwhite: ahh, you've ended up where we started. I have been watching to see if you liked the OTA better than the hideously expensive NBS/KSL I pushed you towards - and had been feeling bad that you could have been just as happy with the OTA (which ... 
Personal experience with Cary gear and...
I own 805B's. I'd seriously look at the Coincident speaker line also. Very drivable by Triodes. 
Innersound ESL amplifier - good choice?
I know that Maggies are designed with SS, so we can expect (respect) that synergy, but has anyone thought of the Berning ZH270 ($4K retail)? Its a one-box OTL that drove the hell out of some Acoustat 1+1's I heard - apart from Apogee Scintillas, a... 
Amp shootout.....Tenor 75wi verses Berning ZH270
Allanbhagainfo: would you please tell me/us your system, including PC's, IC's, etc. Thank you.