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Best Tubes on Market today?
Recommend Brent Jessee for vintage tubes http://www.audiotubes.com/Aside from Sylvania 6SN7s, I have found the Sophia Electric 6SN7s to be very nice sounding and reliable. 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
Gee , are Bose and Sonos fine tuning their speakers that you think are better than high end speakers to your golden, super sensitive ears ?  Are those cheap ear buds you listen to fine tuned to those golden, super sensitive ears. Time to get off t... 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
And how DSP working out for you in your non-existent system ? 
Ultimate Integrated amps
I haven't heard any of those you listed, can you provide some insights on each amp based upon your specific listening experiences ; and how you'd rate each to one another? 
Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button?
Silnote Orion M1 Master Reference interconnects, Clear Day Cable speaker cable 
Gold Lion KT88's Upgrade
Agree with you I like the Black Treasurer sound much better 
Tube life
" Trying new tubes hoping to improve the sound almost always is a total waste of time. Its not that there aren’t differences. Its that the differences are too slight to bother with. "Guess I've had difference experiences than you with swapping... 
Objective Review of the ModWright Pioneer LX800
While I do not own gear modified by Modwright, there seems to have been many satisfied owners of such gear over the years so this reviewer's assessment is somewhat surprising. I do own Modwright's tubed LS100 preamp and Elysee DACs, as well as SS ... 
Aqua hifi La Voce s3.....anyone audition it yet?
@grannyring Thanks for your initial impressions, look forward to your further impressions on the weekend 
Aqua hifi La Voce s3.....anyone audition it yet?
@grannyring When will you be comparing the 2 DACs, and will you provide your impressions back on this thread, or create another?Will you be doing the cap swap, and if so before or after you compare the 2 DACs?Thanks 
Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore?
correction choose not choice 
Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore?
And you can continue to obsess about that and never listen to music, or choice to build your own speakers, or buy speakers that get you close enough to what you want and enjoy listening to music 
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
Starting the day off with Joanne Shaw Taylor albums (she can play blues rock guitar with any of the best)Diamonds in the DirtSongs From The Road  
Whats playing on your system today?
Starting the day off with Joanne Shaw Taylor albums (she can play blues rock guitar with any of the best)Diamonds in the DirtSongs From The Road 
Need help. Music server and streaming. Newbie.
For certain I am no expert in this area , but I import cds into itunes using WAV setting and error correction and find the result to be very good. I have seen online that if you have a large storage capacity that Apple Lossless Encoder is the best...