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Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Yes. Hi-end audio insanity. 
musical drummers...who are they ???
Ditto for Watts . . . his biggest influences are guys like Max Roach and the jazz greats. 
recomended musical sub for 2 channel audio
Or 2 REL Strata IIIs (total $1600-1800 used), as this might improve LF frequency response. I run one in an 17X15 room, and it could use another. The ML is also excellent. 
Mesa Boogie Tube amps interested in your thoughts
Aren't these guitar amps? 
If $ was no object what speaker would you buy?
The New York Philharmonic. 
What companies, out of Business, did you LOVE???
I second Nakamichi. I still miss my CD4 CD player (sold it like an idiot). 
Recommend Power Cable for Aragon 4004MK2 amp
You will gain no sonic improvement w/an aftermarket IEC. Aragon knows a thing or two about building amplifiers (I like/have owned their amps, too), and if their amps sounded any better w/aftermarket IECs, you can bet your bottom dollar that they w... 
I am new to this so please be delicate with me...
YES, standard 12ga copper stranded Monster will be perfectly adequate for your application. Buy it, hook it up, and spend the rest of your time and hard-earned money on music! 
Need to turn volumn up to break in speaker cable?
Shadorne, I like the way you think about such burn-in questions, and please God tell me you're joking. Keep up the good work. 
What will it take to have live music for everyone?
I might be off base on this, but I think a lot of getting people into hi-end audio begins with exposing them to live unamplified music at a young age. Doing so I feel essentially hardwires people's auditory memory, gives them a true reference for ... 
What exactly does "Hospital Grade" mean?
It means that someone has been clever enough to charge audiopiles who don't know anything about electricity a ton of money for -- wire. 
Tube Rolling Quicksilver v4, Preamp recommedation
I own a pair of QS MiniMites (a bit different from the V4s I realize) and can say that I've found a very nice combination of driver/powers tubes in NOS RCA 12AX7As and the SED "Winged C" EL34. With the RCAs, I've done prior extensive listening to ... 
confusion about the aragon 28k pre amp
I recently bought an NAD C162 (retail 599.00.) This is a separate preamp w/tone controls, and it is very flexible and good sounding. It also has a remote. 
Setting up a subwoofer
I totally agree w/Jameswei. I've had only limited success w/the Radio Shack and always revert to doing what my ears (nature's SPL meter and still the best) tell me is right. Bass perfection is impossible, but very good bass is not. 
Recommendations on movie scenes for subwoofers
You might try the scene in Day After Tomorrow when the ship floats thru the city. This will give a sub a good test for integration.