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Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?
Anyone notice that the distortion is pretty unmanageable once the volume is pushed up past around average level. This is true for almost any system you might wish to suggest, even ones you might wish to offer as exceptions. Now, here's the bad new... 
Major mistakes made in assembling your audio rig
Inconsistent channelization and improper direction of fuses and interconnects. Also, not having the speakers close enough together. 
Fuses that matter.
I dunno if anyone else has tried it, but I personally find the new Super Fuse from Audio Magic to be very open, detailed and natural sounding. 
How to isolated stand from springy floors?
The entire house is moving. So making the floor rigid will not solve the underlying problem. The ideal solution would be to isolate the house and the components. 
How to isolated stand from springy floors?
Mass on a spring isolation. Like the pros use. 
Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3
Mothership rules! 
Oppo as transport
I agree about mods to Oppo and have gone pretty far with EVS digital and analog mods, OPPOMODS toroidal transformer/power supply, damping/isolating printed circuit boards, WA Quantum Chips galore, damping the transport, damping the toroidal transf... 
Walker turntable owners, want a GREAT cheap tweak?
Kidman wrote,"Bigger than crystals? WOW! That must be huge to actual be bigger than figments of peoples' imaginations."Pretty cool. That was almost an actual sentence. 
Directional speaker wires, what and why.
Czarivey wrote,"More likely because of fresh reconnection and nothing more.Cleaner surfaces cleaner contacts. Treat with deoxit in addition to hear even better differences."Uh, the contacts were already clean so your theory is incorrect, though in... 
Femto clocks ,every unit should have one
Mapman, I am fairly confident you do not treat CDs as you believe ey sound good right outta the box. ;-) 
Directional speaker wires, what and why.
On a hunch I switched the direction of my Analysis Plus interconnects recently and the difference was like night and day. I had read somewhere in cyberspace that the arrows on the AP interconnects should be in the reverse direction from Logic. Jus... 
Femto clocks ,every unit should have one
Racks, I treat CDs with a number of things, including but not limited to, cryogenic treatment, PWB's Red 'X Pen and Cream Electret, Xtreme AV Liquid Resolution, coloring pens of various colors, demagnetization (Talisman), negative ions (Xionic Tou... 
Femto clocks ,every unit should have one
I think we should probably all agree that off the shelf, untreated CDs by and large sound thin, unnatural, generic, threadbare, tinny, dull, compressed and papier mâché like. 
Akiko Audio tuning sticks?
I keep nunchucks under my pillow but haven't tried them in my system yet. 
has anyone else experience this.....
Actually most dealers worth their salt stipulate whether they are selling new NOS tubes, used NOS tubes that test like new or whatever. Almost every seller provides test results and point out if the results are "marginal."