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What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One?
@larry5729 - you are a bitter man. 
Increasing volume
@yogiboy  not spoken to Octave yet...I'll speak to my dealer later.My amps are W4S SX-1000R monos & my speakers are Audio Physic Avantera III.I did incur the problem before but altered the gain setting in the phono module.& it seemed fine.... 
Increasing volume
@yogiboy  thanks for your reply. Any ideas about possible causes...? 
Increasing volume
Excellent, very informative... 
Turntable isolation for bedroom floor
@geoffkait  what would you say is the purpose of the magnetic feet? When I had stand mount speakers I found they improved the sound significantly...I know you can't really compare isolating speakers to turntables... 
Turntable isolation for bedroom floor
@mulveling  thanks for your input. I'll certainly try removing the magnetic feet. Maybe try sorbothane hemispheres...?? 
Turntable isolation for bedroom floor
@millercarbon  that's very interesting, thanks for the suggestion. How about placing the one rack with the turntable in the sand...? 
Turntable isolation for bedroom floor
@goheelz it’s the first floor of my house.Wall may be possible...to be honest I forgot about that!!@elizabeth thanks, interesting approach, I’ll try it...@bdp24 that would be very nice but at the moment I don’t have the funds...I spent the budget ... 
Is there a standard for number of LP's per inch?
Count ten then just measure that. 
Amp - preamp or integrated
you need sufficient room for them??? Not all mono blocks are monoliths.  
DeoxIT on tube pins
Walker recommend using fine grit paper on the pins before applying their E-SST... 
DeoxIT on tube pins
@stevecham  that's primarily why I asked - I too have fairly recently fitted NOS Telefunken tubes. I cleaned the slightly tarnished pins as good as I could (one tip I read was to use a very sharp craft nice & gently scrape the pins to expose a... 
DeoxIT on tube pins
@helomech - thanks, interesting tip. 
DeoxIT on tube pins
@elizabeth  what if they are NOS tubes & the pins are slightly tarnished? 
DAC Bandwidth settings
But...I'm considering a significant jump to the Aqua Formula xHD... although I'm not sure I can justify spending that much on a DAC.