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Is there any fan of Mettalica here?
Death Magnetic was the focus of a NY Times article about the Loudness Wars in present day pop/rock music. A dynamic range of 3 db! I had the CD and found it sounded awful. Of course most death/black metal/thrash over the past few decades sounds eq... 
Is there any fan of Mettalica here?
I  started paying attention to Metallica after reading the NY Village Voice review of MOP back in 1984. It was several years before I found the Elektra LP at my local Goodwill for $3. I already had the CD and did a comparison. I noticed an irritat... 
Component contributions to “sound stage”
@livingwellinco : "The soundstage is unreal." Really, man!   
Component contributions to “sound stage”
@michaellent +1! You hit the nail on the head! Soundstage is in the source! Pop/Rock recordings made by multi-tracking in a studio are nothing like a well-miked symphony orchestra where the recording engineer attempts to capture the spaciousness a... 
Moon 110LP V2 replacement Power Supply.
Show us some close up pictures of the back where the plug fits. Also a picture of the plug end on the cable from the power supply.   
A listening test of two power amps
All amps of low distortion, low output impedance and flat response will sound indistinguishable operated below clipping. Decades ago Peter Walker of Quad did a test using RTR tape copies of classical master tapes between two Quad amps - a transist... 
Anti-Skat on the EAT F-Note Tonearm
Anti-skate applies an OUTWARD force to counter the inward skating force of pivoted arms. It varies with position and groove modulation. All anti-skate mechanisms are just bandaids. My FR 29 and FR 54 arms have no anti-skate and sound fine!  
TAS. The Absolute Sound?
At least Stereophile has John Atkinson's measurements while TAS is just "my golden ears" tell me it is so. I called out Michael Fremer on Facebook for touting a $6K power cord.  
McIntosh MC275 vs Dynaco ST70
@viridian : You sir are correct! I said 6GH8 because I couldn't pull the correct 7199 out of memory. Either will work on that input/driver board, with some re-wiring for the different pin-outs.  
McIntosh MC275 vs Dynaco ST70
More fun to be had modding the input/driver board on the ST70! I have one like that with upgraded caps and three dual triodes in place of the two 6GH8's.   
Excellent interview with Mark Levinson
I'd like to have a C - Wave module that a DAC can plug into! At an affordable price of course!  
Excellent interview with Mark Levinson
Yeah, like Mark Levinson isn’t responsible for starting high end audio back around 1975!   
Capacitor replacement for Jamicon 25 volt
"There ain't no Cadillac Coupe DeVille at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box" - Meatloaf   
SEEKING ADVICE: Which component would you upgrade first?
Since you have CD's a new low-cost CD player would be a good addition.  
SEEKING ADVICE: Which component would you upgrade first?
@mapman +1! Plenty of used NAD integrated amps available on different sites: Audiogon, EBay, Reverb, USAudiomart ...