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What do you consider the most when choosing a pair of speakers?
For me the top consideration is efficiency or the ability to work with my current system.  . The next criteria has to be integration with my listening space.  For me that thins the choices and I would then pick the one that sounds the best  within... 
Music for the Pacific Audiofest show
Antonio Forcione Poema (song) Dominique Fils-Aimé  Nameless (Birds, Nameless) Lyle Lovett Joshua Judges Ruth (North Dakota) Antonio Forcione Touch Wood (Album) Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis (April in Paris) Anna Maria Jopek ... 
Audio PC
I'll take that as a challenge.  A lot of streamers sold in the same range as the bluesound are not much more than a Raspberry PIs with some linear power supplies and an adapter hat. like PI2AES. (which is no longer being made.) The reason expensi... 
Mhdt Istanbul....not all the others from Mhdt.....lets discover the Istanbul (the Book)
My Orchid taught me a lot about listening (haven't heard and Istanbul).  Total agreement with the 6922 tube and adapter setup.  There's a lot of threads about updating the capacitors to further improve the sound.  
The Good Stuff
Tift Merritt Traveling Alone  2012 Traveling Alone https://youtu.be/OiNBswDcIHQ Drifting Apart https://youtu.be/LJ5Gy_8qNwQ Still Not Home https://youtu.be/8HNOxZIWWgA Feeling of Beauty https://youtu.be/rhkuL_mAJ8Y    
The Good Stuff
Talking Heads  Fear of Music 1979 I Zimbra  https://youtu.be/qKFn66dzdz0 Life During Wartime https://youtu.be/_NywTcGOUkE Heaven https://youtu.be/JAa7J10D8Qw Animals https://youtu.be/eBiIFhg0Jnc?list=RDeBiIFhg0Jnc Bonus Track talking he... 
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
Angel From Montgomery Buddy Miller & Friends (with Brandi Carlile & The Lone Bellow) My favorite version  
New equipment
OP  The same thing happened to me.  I got to a place where I could only hear equipment and the music no longer mattered and as I wasn't in a place that I could afford or house the stereo I thought I wanted I just stopped put my albums in storage ... 
a better interconnect cable
Have you looked at the Chinese cable fakes thread? There’s a whole discussion about them Never mind it went the way of many informative threads here with off topic bantering shutting down the thread.    
How Audiphiles are Different
Not just as audiophiles be we as humans are all different with different approaches and solutions.  Just observe how different people count nickels.  Some count them individually or in groups some in stacks and then group them.  The good news is w... 
Pacific Audio Fest
I'm looking forward to the event (but not the crowds). I'll be there.  
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
Walk On By : Woong San feat. Toku      
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
Talking Heads  Take me to the River Terez Montcalm  Black Trombone... (There are on trombones in the song????)    
The Good Stuff
Ray Charles America theBuitiful      
Best speakers for a small room
Where are you sitting in the room? How far can you place the speakers from the back wall?  How far away are you sitting from the speakers?  Can you sit facing diagonally reducing the direct reflections (for the best sound)?   Is this a dedicated l...