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Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs
Notting Hillbillies Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It'll Shine When it Shines Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound                                                         
Recommendations for 7 channel amp
+1 woots & ronboco MC8207  7x200W    
Interesting videos about sounds and music
Playing for Change - Peace Through Music (Awesome, inspiring) John Monteleone - The Chisels are Calling (Legendary guitar Luthier) Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (Master Keyboardist)      
Audio / Stereo Rack
Mapleshade can provide you exactly what you need, and I’ve never waited longer than 2-3 weeks even with customization. You can view my racks by looking at my system pictures on my profile here. Eldon, the owner, was excellent to deal with and I’m ... 
Gaia versus Mapleshades
If you call Mapleshade, Eldon, the owner is a very nice guy who will be happy to expound on why he believes his products are better. Unless you're already committed to the Sapele, I'd consider Mapleshade's Ambrosia Maple platforms also. I just fin... 
Picking Speakers 20k-30k
I have SF Amati tradition and love them. There are a number of folks trading these in recently to get the newer G4 edition, so used Tradition models are out there for  under 30K...   
ONE MINUTE Premium Power Cable Survey
Kinda funny, I almost messed my survey up - thought it included speaker cables - caught myself before it was too late when I saw it was specifically Power Cables, went back and did again!  Nice idea, Thanks!  
Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align
Too many to rank, but it’s fun to search for hidden gems amongst other’s choices. Here’s a few "perfect" songs with great audio... Too Much Rope - Roger Waters Your Own Sweet Way - Notting Hillbillies Brother Where You Bound - Supertramp Dark ... 
Only two tracks to test your system, forever!
Very much enjoyed this! Added 7-8 songs listed here to my existing testing and positioning playlist. There are quite a few I already had on my list. Cheers to all that have participated.   
So I was changing a lightbulb last night…
I had problems with an appliance (Anova Precision Combi Oven) that caused a terrible buzz and excessive heat in my toroidal transformer in Mac amp. The variable speed fan seemed to be the culprit, causing "DC in the Mains". My understanding is tha... 
STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES
Great info on this topic. I use Bluesound with Tidal as my service, but this has made me interested in perhaps a trial of Qobuz... I've built up quite a collection of "favorites" in Tidal which I would hate to rebuild on another service. On the Qo...