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Kind of Blue
coltrane my favorite things, ole, africa. man!   
What do you like to see included in a manufacturer's website?
full specs and schematic, pics of the insides  
Throw it out!
good idea, buddy  
Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :)
a well-set-up low-cost system of pieces that play well together can make magic. excellent work.    
Preamp - what's the purpose?
to manage and organize sources to send source signals to a power amp by using gain, impedance matching & whatever im leaving out    
Jazz Mount Rushmore
hoo, boy. when talkin about jazz with folks who like it but arent knowledgeable, i explain. in rock, you have the the top two ATG guitar players, duanne allman and jimi hendrix. in late 50s-early70s jazz, you have at least 20 of those guys.  ther... 
OCD mickey website and negativity.
if this is the OCD hi-fi guy, it was interesting and entertaining til it wasnt, which didnt take very long. i enjoyed reading about his real-life customer serivice.      
Microphonics, Feedback and Bob Carver
@erik_squires, i wonder why bob carver put 15W edcor output transformers in an amp he claims does 80WPC.   
Value of a preamp?
with exceptions, system sounds better with it than without it.   
Smaller plug-in AC Purifiers -- Shunyata, iFi, Puron...something else? What do you like?
my system was plenty noisy. i tried the ifi AC purifier. tried it every way they suggested. it did absolutely nothing. isotech isobar and the 4-outlet richard grey help.   
Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ?
perhaps too many of em for sale for too long. i never saw something so current so common on the used market. i never hear or read anyone say its crap or loaded with design flaws, so i figured either the new sales were off the charts, its a gateway... 
Tubed preamps and Power amps- How old is too old???
well, the favorite conrand johnson preamps are PV5, premier 3 and PV8, which are...i dunno. late 80s and early 90s. one of the consensus best is marantz 7, another is citation 1, another the audio research sp-3(A)-1. serious tube people are stil... 
Transformer coupled outputs/inputs in preamplifiers.
@larryi, do you have ea build thread with pics and schematics somewhere?      ceylon  
Single input tube preamp
@blueeagle79 is referring to this  https://glass-ware.store.turbify.net/paraikocster.html          
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
evon when they spec compatibly, some components sound better together than others.  some components that sound great together are just ok otherwise. ive heard beautiful sounds from entry level rega components working together. the same entry leve...