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I had a few drinks and bought some speakers
I love the posters idea of a thread 'hifi gear I bought while under the influece"   I suspect, as with me, it is a more common occurring thing than might be expected 
eBay / PayPal: Beware - enough is never enough.
A good thread, worthwhile reading through it.I do not sell my no longer needed gear anymore, rather give it away to someone who is a budding audiophile. Granted, the avg used price of what I am giving away is $300 or less.My take on this: not wort... 
Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC?
Ditto on Blusound Node 2     You can find a pretty good deal on the version 2 vs 2i of this product, and as i understand it, the 2i advantage was a better dac only, so i using outboard dac no real advantage.They are cheap enough to try and you can... 
Power cords can make a tremendous difference in Digital
Let me chime in to also highly recommend the isoloation transformer option.  Smaller capacity, say 500va ones are very inexpensive (well, at least inexpensive compared to other 'audio tweaks' that abound).  I've picked up a few off ebay, such that... 
Cartridge recommendations
Here is a pretty decent resource that you can get a sense of different cartridges actually playing music. The recordings are of sufficient fidelity that, at least for me, i can get a sense of the differences in the sound of the cartridges. The nar...