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How hot is too hot?
@ghdprentice   
Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget
@knownothing I feel like something has to change. You can't buy stuff blindly (deafly). Ordering gear I only read about, sending it back, having 50 pound boxes travel 1000s of miles so that I can figure out if I like it seems inefficient. Showroom... 
How hot is too hot?
And 26C is pretty warm for any room Well, the Earth got pretty hot for any human. We need to adapt and fix it...  
The Expectation Gap
how is it confirmation bias?  
Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget
have you tried this?  
What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles
beyond meatloaf  
Develop a hierarchy for phono playback
I hate this sort of thread, but I am bored turn on a news channel  
Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget
I can’t keep track ot the many speaker suggestions the tracking algorithm broke :)  
What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles
@tubeguy76 Maybe it's like sausage in restaurant culture, customers can't see what goes in so they make shortcuts. To be honest, it's not my favorite dish. Sometimes my wife gets it right, and then I can't stop. I ate a lot in New England where (s... 
What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles
Mulligatawny soup - looks like a stew!   
Develop a hierarchy for phono playback
I would say the better the cartridge, the more important the phono stage. So if you have 2000 dollars don't spend half of it on the phono stage. If you have 10, yes, absolutely. @ghdprentice is up there with his system, way across the 10K per comp... 
Picking speakers 3000-5000 budget
again KLH is value on steroids  
Wanting to upgrade my speakers
yes the Lintons could work  
Wanting to upgrade my speakers
so you want speakers just right for your room size, and the most speakers for your money. KLH, Monitor Audio, Wharfedale, KEF, PSB, Klipsch, Paradigm, Arendal, Aperion to name a few, look for  their bookshelf versions.    
What is a "reference" system?
I have one very modest system. To me a reference system is someone else's setup. If it were mine, I imagine I would have to have several homes, audio rooms, 3 or 4 decent setups to call one reference, one that is the most balanced, neutral, not ne...