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iseland

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Why a dearth of some brands on the used market?
I'm looking for used chord cable- music xlr in shorter length. They don't show up often!  
Making speakers “disappear”…..
If possible, some treatment usually helps. At least first reflection areas on sidewalls   
Second MC Cartridge Choice.....Tokyo
By the way, hana umami blue probably won't show until late summer ( my dealer says)  
Second MC Cartridge Choice.....Tokyo
Well , if in japon take a look at ZYX :-) Imagine price is alot better there..  
Ozzy is done
To bad . Mostly great shows, at least the ones I saw..   
What is the current retail cost of your reference system?
I would say that it depends on were you live . Got my chord music speaker cable this week and did not pay anything close to what the US retail is , since I don't live in the US . On the other hand ARC gear is almost twice the money and that goes f... 
Changes in my life, new system, need new speakers
I think he means NAD M23   
Why is everyone so down on MQA?
As I recall Tidal upsampled some redbook with mqa and that was not always well received ( google Neil Young and Tidal..               On the other hand I did bought some excellent mqa cds like the Hoff Ensemble, Polarity!            ... 
DAC league table
Marantz have product in a wide price range, just saying 😉  
If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over.............
At this moment, yellow brick road .  
Perception and Watts: Doubling of power
@johnnycamp5 you are absolutely correct, was a bit tiered at that moment..  
Perception and Watts: Doubling of power
Usually an increase by 3db is doubling the spl , so raising by 10 db is kinda triple the spl and Watts is what you feed the speaker depending on sensitivity of the speaker. But you all know this by now 😁  
Bad Cornwall IV?
Take a  look at GR research Youtube chanel and search klipch!   
Cables to settle brightness
That old misconception " silver is bright " might not apply since op haven't mentioned having any kind of silver/ silver over copper cable in his/her system.  I do share the opinion that using cable as equaliser is a bad idea, changing equipment ... 
Speakers
"Is the Allen wrench standard, or metric?" metric is kind of the standard on this planet 😉