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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Diana Krall - Quiet Nights 
What are you streaming tonight?
Four Tet - Dialogue, Qobuz 
What are you streaming tonight?
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher, Qobuz Hi-Res, a little outside my normal tastes, but some interesting lyrics and music. 
Building a mid(-upper) range stereo with Marantz and Klipsch
Those Klipsch speakers at 98db sensitivity don't need much power at all.  I have no experience with either of the Marantz units you mentioned, but I'd get the PM8006 if it's a choice between the two.  It will have plenty of power and give you the ... 
Shootout of Nos 6sn7 tubes
@lowrider57 that's a bummer. Seems like a bit of a crap shoot. 
TEAC NT-505 impossible connecting to WiFi router o such LAN: help me please?
I used kind of a cheapo repeater, but it worked fine with my blue sound node 2 and a number of other devices. All good now that I ran a wire to it. No reason it shouldn't work with a repeater, it was probably an issue with my repeater or my router.  
Bob Dylan - new album just out on Tidal - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Maybe. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@bkeske That's one of my favorites from one of the true wizards of the studio.  
What are you streaming tonight?
The Greatest Guitar Solos - Qobuz playlist. It's hard to take too seriously when Rock Bottom by UFO was omitted, but there's some good stuff.  
What are you streaming tonight?
Tom Petty - Wildflowers, Qobuz  
What are you streaming tonight?
Steely Dan - Katy Lied, Qobuz 
What are you streaming tonight?
Steely Dan - Gaucho, Qobuz Hi-Res 
Looking for closed back headphone advice
Most headphone amps are afterthoughts, so generalizing that a dedicated headphone amp is normally going to be better than one included in a receiver, integrated, or preamp is anything but "puffery".  My Modwright LS 100 has a pretty decent headpho...