c123666

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Best turntable for easy setup and no maintenence?
Scheu Cello with rb250 arm for less than a grand landed from Germany. Uses same bearing as their much more expensive 80mm platter Premier model. Excellent motor and good cosmetics. this is not a kit as is the following table, though.Bix turntable ... 
Turntable Purchase Suggestion
I would see if the Final Signature Acoustic Tool remains available at 1750 here on audiogon. It is a superb table for the money and is made of real metal and not plastic! Add a quality tonearm (rb300 Incognito wired, Kerry or Michell heavyweight, ... 
looking to go from seperates to intergrated
used Audiomat Solfege..very powerful, great sounding, rare on the used market 
Best used speaker under $1000 for tube low watter
The Type K Audio Note speakers are 90db rating; the Type J is 92 and the Type E goes from 94 to 98 depending on model.Used Klipsch speakers are a great deal and sound good, too, with8 tubes; very efficient. Some models of interest would be RB5, RB... 
Please recommend some active speakers
Meridian. 
D'oh I killed my cartridge...now what?
Can't go wrong with any Dynavector; they only get better as you move up the feeding chain. I have a DV20 and once used a Karat Ruby extensively; lovely cartridges. The DV17 II might be one of the better cartridges available in its price range. 
Coolest looking vintage tuner.....
sansui tx1..one for sale right now...not silver but it has plenty of analogue toys including seperate tuning facilities for am and fm....one of the best 
any suggestion for a narrow mini receiver
Linn Movie Classik; about 1600/1700 used. 
Upgrade my Turntable????
The only item in the Teres that could be a problem..maybe..is the bearing. All of the other components can be duplicated. Well, the platter would not be so simple but platters don't break easily. Buy an extra bearing if you buy a new Teres and tha... 
Audiophile reggae?
Bob Marley "Survival"; sounds pretty darned good on the 24y/o vinyl. I second the MFSL gold cd of Exodus; great recording. Pity I misplaced mine years ago. 
Which Used CD Player for Under $1,500?
vecteur L 4.2 
I need a fantastic DAC
There are a couple of used Stax DACs for sale. Check it out:http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlconv&1113716328Hard to go wrong with an Audio Note DAC 3.1 or 4.1 
Music Hall mmf-5 vs. Rega P3
go for the p3 which can be upgraded with a lot of different aftermarket products....the rb300 arm can always be kept for another table or resold and replaced with an upgraded arm or you can upgrade it yourself by sending it to Expressimo for the I... 
am/fm tube tuners
After a good station to listen to the next most important thing is not the tuner but having a good external FM antenna. If you have one of those almost any tuner in good repair will sound good.I use an Onkyo T9 quartz locked tuner from around 1980... 
Amps with high voltage?
Levinson ML2 might be what you are looking for, too; push 400 watts at 0.5 ohm.....