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Up to $4000US tower speakers for Jazz and Classical Music
Find a pair of Yamaha NS-1000M and recap with good capacitors. Total cost around $1500.    
Science that explains why we hear differences in cables?
Just like those super expensive speaker makers, none of them has the courage to go through blind tests. 
Best Desktop Speakers under $500
Used Canton GL 260. Recap them with good caps. Still way better than most of the new bookshelf/desktop speakers. 
Warm, rich but detailed SS preamp (made you give up tubes)
Late 80s NAD 1600 or 1700. They come with excellent tuner, mm/mc phono stages. Remotes are better than most of today’s. 
I love sad music
Glenn Hughes "Catch the Rainbow" 
What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities?
Oops! In serial. 
What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities?
Yamaha NS-1000M. Especially recapped with high quality caps (the famous 6 3uf in parallel). 
What do/did you do for a living?
Good old IBM mainframe assembler programmer. 
Favorite song to demo or test drive speakers?
Billy Vera -- At This Moment (Live) 
NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST
Philips MFB speakers. 
Repair Shop in Southern California
Called GMAV and NE. Both have $75 minimum charge. Talked to Tom of NE and he gave me a few simple steps to isolate the source of noise and I was able to determine it's power amp. Tom did say that he cannot resolve the problem if clicks are from th... 
Repair Shop in Southern California
Not yet papa. Will call weekend.  
Repair Shop in Southern California
Will do. 
Repair Shop in Southern California
Thank you guys. I guess I need to do more research. 
Repair Shop in Southern California
Good advise MB. Just checked cables and cords and they all looked fine. I guess I will bring the to gm AV. Bought them in 85 and no issues until now. I have a newer type of receiver (the AV stuff) but it does not produce same quality of sound on t...