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Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what?
Alectiong,I would heed Stew3859's advice and suggest making sure that your system is optimally set up. Not just the analog front end, but everything (i.e. check connections, wire placement, room acoustics, etc.). Perhaps it is not the analog front... 
Help with final choice of efficient speakers
David,Congratulations and welcome to the club! Let us know your impressions. 
Book Review: Thelonious Monk, The Life and Times..
There is a very enthusiastic review in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review section: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/Kleinzahler-t.html?_r=1&ref=booksI enjoy reading muscians' biographies because it always helps to understan... 
Speaker Cable for DeVore Fidelity Ref Silverbacks
Congratulations! The Silverbacks are one of my favorite speakers. I've heard them with the Auditorium 23 and would be a happy boy with that combination. You might give John DeVore a call and ask his input. Very personable and seems great to deal w... 
Short List of the Best 20K Speakers
Why not consider the Daedalus Ulysses for $11k and save the difference? You get a fabulous, handmade speaker that comes with a 30 day return policy. Lou Hinkley is one of the good guys in audio. The DeVore Silverbacks are also a great speaker but ... 
RMAF 2009 Analog Report + Meet and Greet
Dre,Great write up. If you like Grappelli and hot jazz I'd highly recommend Pearl Django (http://www.pearldjango.com/). 
Daedalus
The ModWright equipment works quite well with Daedalus speakers. I have no experience with the others on your list.Congratulations. Like you, I consider my Daedalus speakers my 'last' speakers. You'll love working with Lou. 
Music Inventory
Here is a link to the website:http://www.collectorz.com/Just click on the 'Music Collector' tab. Scanning works for anything with a bar code. For other vinyl you can search the database by artist and/or album name or enter manually. If you'd like ... 
Music Inventory
I like the Collectorz software. It's user friendly and the database is fairly extensive. Organizing vinyl is more labor intensive but doable. They have an app that lets you keep you collection on the iPhone which is pretty useful for preventing du... 
New favorite VINYL Album?
New vinyl in heavy rotation:Fleet Foxes "Eponymous"...OK it was released last year but I've only just caught onCocktail Slippers "St. Valentines Day Massacre"Noisettes "Wild Young Hearts" 
Whats the best $1500 tonearm for a Teres
Congratulations! Keep share your impressions as the rig runs in and save your shekels for new vinyl ;-) 
Dynavector DX-1s vs Shelter 7000/9000
I'll pile on and also recommend the XV1-s. The previous comments are spot on and I would also add that it is an excellent tracker. 
Describe the ideal high end audio dealership
My apologies for taking your thread in a more specific direction than you intended. As long as we are fantasizing, my perfect dealership would:1. Carry a complete inventory of multiple product lines with multiple dedicated acoustically treated dem... 
Describe the ideal high end audio dealership
We are very lucky to have multiple quality brick and mortar dealers in Seattle. A couple of standouts are Tim Ratcliffe at Experience Audio and Tom King at Definitive Audio. In addition, I've also had great service from Thom Mackris at Galibier De... 
What isolation feet to use??
I've had excellent sucess with EquaRack products.