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2006 BEST Female Vocal CD/SACD/XRCD
John,I have a couple OTR albums and really like them. Another CDBaby find was Third Road Home - Sister/brother act, and Trinity has a very good voice with better songwriting talents ... al but one cut is hers.One of my fav's is Tift Merritt - her ... 
What happens when the Wife cleans the audio room
Nutella,nice and sparkly? rotflmao 
Favorite Non-Major Record Label
Mapleshade ... always seem well-recorded, and some nice off the wall stuff. Also a fan of Lost Highway (been a huge Tift fan since the beginning), and frequent cdbaby customer. 
Power Cords on a $1000 budget what would you do?
Viridian, everyone else seemed to miss it, but I'm still ROTFLMAO 
What music would you like at your funeral?
'Please Don't Bury Me' by John Prine 
Low Mass Arm and Mono Cartridge
Think the Denon 102 is also relatively low compliance (not sure of the spec), but is a pretty good deal at about $150. 
THE Show - worth going?
Please note that THE Show is not only the St Tropez, which is right next door to the Alexis Park - but also the San Remo (which is kitty-corner from the MGM. Ther are fewer exhibitors, but some much larger scale rooms there.IThese are indeed BTB s... 
Speaker Choice for a larger room
Greg beat me to it, but I wanted to echo him since no one else has ... you have defined the Soundlabs - which is not surprising since you are coming from planars already. BTW, I don't see the bigger Maggie 20.1's on your list?"while Soundlabs &... 
Speakers that work close to the back wall
Maril555,Could you elaborate further ... whenever someone says a distance from the wall, I presume they are talking about to the speakers front baffle, not the back of the speaker. Which do you mean? 
nht vs cerwin vega
gmarcotte,glad it worked out better. and having pre-outs on your receiver will help immensely. i typically would not recommend bi-ampimg until you have sufficient funds to have first tried a single good quality amp/cable - you'll have to spend mor... 
Trying a turntable-it sounds crappy, what's up??
Lkdog,The only thing a little tricky about that path, is cartridge/arm matching. I have no idea what the effective mass is of your current arm (someone else here may have some info on that), but you will need to match the cartridge compliance to i... 
best cartridge for MMF-7, stock tonearm,below1000
Even a broken watch gets it right twice a day ... but only once if it's digital ;-) 
Taking the analog plunge...
Dan_ed, Looneytunz, Joe, et al,Whoa big fella ... I said 'may' limit. No bashing of either tubes nor MM cartridges here. But most tube phono stages only have enough gain for either MM or posibly HO MC. Sure, you could add a step-up transformer (so... 
nht vs cerwin vega
If you are using the sub output to feed the 8-inchers, then you are only givng them signal below the sub xover (maybe 80hz), when their internal crossover is probably designed at more like 250 Hz. Your lower mids and upper bass are probably non-ex... 
best cartridge for MMF-7, stock tonearm,below1000
If you wanted to stay under $1000, the best play might be to sell your entire rig, add $1000, and buy a new (used) rig. for $1500-2000 you can get a very good deck - I've seen LP12, Scout, various Sota and VPI HW, Nottingham, etc in that range - a...