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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live, Quality Records pressing.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Pat Travers - Black Pearl   
Thiel Owners
@cascadesphil  When someone poses a question, I try to put myself in their shoes within their budgets and what they want to accomplish.  I often help people who are not audiophiles.  I wouldn't want to impart any of my disease (😀) to them.  We a... 
Thiel Owners
I would be more concerned about the sound quality characteristics of the Peachtree Nova 300 than its power ratings.  Here's a quote from Art Dudley from the review mentioned previously: "By the end of my time with Peachtree Audio's nova300, I was... 
Tubes becoming hard to get?
I just had to order some new 6550's for one of my amps.  I paid about $40 each in 2020.  Now they are $82 each.  And only a few sellers had any.  
Headphone suggestions needed
With your budget, I'd give the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XX a look.  I have about a dozen headphones including a few costing 10 times as much or more and they are the ones I reach for the most.  They aren't "audiophile" headphones, in the sense th... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue.  I picked this up at Half-Price Books for 3 bucks a few years ago.  Sounding great!  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
ELO's Greatest Hits  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard Of Stars, nice promo import.   
Can my Roon Nucleus be used with a non-Roon-ready DAC?
I have a DAC that is not Roon ready - Aqua La Voce S3.  I have it connected to my Nucleus via USB and it sounds great, definitely better than "background music".  Maybe if I stuck some filters and other doodads in there I'd be an audiophile. I wo... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Electric Light Orchestra - The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach, German import  
The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same?
it seems like so many of you guys have subjective-only opinions about what "sounds good" Can we all agree that machines used for measuring audio gear are more accurate than human ears? Do you use machines to decide whether art is visually plea... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Tubes - Outside Inside  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Another copy of Electric Light Orchestra - Olé ELO