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Fritz Carrera or other possibilities!
@johnc5  sorry for what? You haven't offended anyone  
Fritz Carrera or other possibilities!
there are 2-3 threads every week about "which monitor should I get in the 2-5K category" maybe we need something like    
Advice on Integrated Receiver
I think Polks are decent speakers. I would like them even more is AR didn't recommend them. I had one pair and it was fine, but nowhere near as much fun as others.  
Advice on Integrated Receiver
@kota1 I wouldn't put any stock into AR's recommendations. He made some "amazing" choices in the past. His explanations goe as deep as "it changed me", "I kept returning to this one" and a lot of "substance" like that   
Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital?
I don’t think $10K can get you there nothing will, for some  
Advice on Integrated Receiver
I auditioned these speakers (with PrimaLuna Evo 300) and I was not impressed.  And I think highly of Monitor Audio, I loved my bookshelf speakers. I just found no musicality/soul from the Silver 300s. But maybe with more raw power? Under 5K you h... 
Where does "MidFi" differ from "HiFi" or "LOFI"?
@secretguy  slow down, we are snobs, remember?  
NAD 3030 experience
   
Where does "MidFi" differ from "HiFi" or "LOFI"?
hi-fi starts at 1 dollar below what the responder spent. Anything just below my system is mid-fi  
New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)
the Pangea stands are as ugly as it gets  
What am I missing?
Qobuz suggestions aren't great either. And how hard would it be to add a usable history to the menu?  
If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over.............
Blonde on Blonde + 1 I would be fine with one of these 3 also Abbey Road Out of the Blue Spencer Davis group - the best of the - not to cheat but their LP releases are all over the map  
Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market
This may be the most asked question in the aspiring audiophile’s mind: best speaker for $2500 ($5000 new in the used market) followed by "but what amp now???" I know it’s a cliche but Dynaudio Contour 20 (the Evoke 30 is on sale for ridiculous p... 
Vinyl record cleaning
I also tried the local waterfall. Hold the records where the pressure is the highest, if they break, use the oven the meld them back together. Nature always works the best.  
Japanese Luxman Integrated Amps
I moved 4 times between Europe and the US with hi-fi gear and used basic (but not cheapest junk) converters without any problem for decades.