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To horn or not to horn
I have had some Ref 3A de Capos in my main system for 10 years. stand mount 2 way speakers no crossover. Love the sound.A few years ago we bought a cabin in the mountains and i needed to put a second system together. I had just bought a 2/6 watt t... 
Need help on a CD player
@jcipale Glad to hear it.  loving the cd's but also love streaming hi res music using the built in DAC.   and yes built like a tankgood price. better than mine :) 
Need help on a CD player
I'll second the Emotiva ERC4, i got mine about 2 months ago and love it.  the built in DAC is pretty good and convenient for a small systemits built like a tank. very solid 
Best DAC for my system?
Spend a bit more for a MHDT DAC, R2R, non over-sampling, no digital filter, no op-amp with a Tube :) 
Streaming Music through my home stereo
Are you going out of the ipad into a DAC? 
ways to store your records
I have been working on a straight grained douglas fir record rack like the LP Bin in the article except with an extra bottom shelf.Just got to do the dado cuts.  My house, built in 1900, has Doug fir mouldings. 
Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?....
I love radio, have a Mac MR71, 67, 74.  The 71 and 67 sound the best but with the hassle of finding someone to do repair work on them i ended up with an alternative. And I live in an area (Northern Colorado) that has at least 7-8 very good station... 
Emotiva not so good
Can't speak about the amps but the new Emotiva ERC-4 CDP/DAC sounds rich and full in my system.   
Which is better.
check out the Emotiva ERC-4.  has a built in dac (coax and optical) so you can run into itrich full sound 
does MacBook Pro need a DAC?
I use a dac with my macbook. Makes a huge difference, even a cheap DAC makes a big difference. 
A CD player for....CD’s
Just got an Emotiva ERC-4 a CDP with DAC, great sounduse my macbook to stream Itunes and internet radio(  especially WWOZ out of NOLA) into the coax input via a spdif. great sound rich full.  
A Top DAC
https://darko.audio/the-darko-dac-index/  
Replacement cd player
ps for an all in one an Anthem amp may be the way to go  
Replacement cd player
Look at the Emotiva ERC4  built in DAC  i stream with my macbook nice rich sound from the CDP and DAC 
Klipsch Heresy IV - not what I was expecting
Could you please compare them to the de Capos?I have some Klipsch Quartets on another system and de Capos on my main system.  Very different sound like them both