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which turntable for the future?
lordy i want an ELP in the worst way. if one has that kind of money to spend [not much more than some of the tables mentioned elsewhere in this thread] that is the table i'd get along with the analog i/o declicker they market with it as well as a ... 
How long ago did you catch the bug?
my first exposure to high end was in a port angeles WA. stereo shop back in may of 1979, i was listening to an ordinary neil diamond LP being played through equipment whose name escapes me now, but it was high end stuff judging by the lack of pric... 
Your method for discovering great music.
primarily "the evergreen channel" [HD#2] broadcast sub-channel on KING-FM 98.1, seattle. sometimes a web search will lead me to a blog or to something on youtube.  
Describe your preference in a single sentence
full-frequency neutral clarity combined with mellowness, airy spaciousness with instrumental placement independent of listener position relative to speakers, an utterly undistorted and unfatiguing ease to the presentation that allows for unself-co... 
Whats playing on your system today?
the re-remastered CD of "astro sounds from beyond the year 2000." trippy, man.  
Is this stylus worn out?
give that stylus a good ultrasonic cleaning, then play it again. alternately, see if you can discern an increase in surface noise on the record when the other stylus plays it, mistracking chips off little slivers of vinyl that can have this effect.   
Kef LS50s - great like me but need to come up for air
you definitely do NOT EVER want to put vandersteen anythings in any room that small, 11 x 14 is way too small for those speakers to sound as their designer intended, you will hear shoutiness at the crossover point @ 2.8 kilocycles. i learned this ... 
2022 is almost here. Why are you here?
to learn from y'all.   
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
below, a higher fidelity and complete version of "once i was" by tim buckley. plus triste que triste.  
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
after watching this i just wanted to get blotto.  
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
cantonese er hu music, generally the music of ravel and debussy, japanese folk song "sakura" all stimulate my stendhal's syndrome. also the music of glass armonica artist william wilde zeitler-    
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
   
Advice for Amp to Drive Klipsch Forte IVs
being that it is a Klipsch, i'd go for something mellow like a rega brio. 50 wpc should be plenty for those speakers.  
Why recordings made before 1965 sound better.
it is a common misperception that digital noise reduction [sonic solutions NONOISE, CEDAR et al] per se,  "harms the music" - it ONLY does so when it is misapplied by a cloth-eared ham-handed audio restoration technician. having used these tools f... 
Not manufactured any more.
*energy 22 pro monitor - the most musical speaker i'd heard up to that point [1986]. *AR "Magic Speaker" - uncanny representation of recorded space - "you were there." snell type A revised - the most magisterial speaker i'd heard next to the- *...