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DAC purchase:new or used?
A few nice looking units on here in your price range, no affiliations with any buyers.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-dac-2017-09-18-digitalhttps://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-dac-2017-09-09-digital-fdde129e-8972-479b-a... 
DAC purchase:new or used?
Digital depreciates sharply buy  used and stretch your dollar further.  There are plenty of good options in your price range. 
Which Preamp "internals" would you choose? Based on picture only
@aberyclark  what happened to "no black boxes"?  Those all look like boxers to me and as I said in your other thread you can really stretch your budget buying used. Or is this a different project? 
Always long for (upgraded) first love: Sonic Frontiers Line 3
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-sonic-frontiers-line-3-2017-10-04-preamplifiers 
Esoteric Support - nonexistent???
Are you in the US? Did you try the Esoteric USA site? There is a support phone number listed there not sure if its the same number you tried. Good luck!http://www.esoteric-usa.com/ 
Wonderful visit and 5-star customer service at Audio Doctor in Jersey City, NJ!
Ok let me address this, I have no issues with brick and mortar stores or Audio Doctor or ph2. I am a brick and mortar audio retail customer myself. However look how this looked when first posted, ph2 signed up the day of his post and it was his on... 
Icon Audio Preamps ..Any experiences?
Lol your on your own then dude good luck! 
Icon Audio Preamps ..Any experiences?
Hi no experience with the Icon but why not stretch your budget and buy used? This looks nice near the same price range:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-response-audio-musica-bella-leanna-vtps-fully-balanced-reduce...No affiliation with the s... 
Wonderful visit and 5-star customer service at Audio Doctor in Jersey City, NJ!
@dekay LOL thanks for that! 
AN-E-SPE-HE Advice
Abill glad you got a chance to listen and no surprise your Wavelength amps sounded great. It's going to be hard to fine the Lexus Signature with external crossover as you are discovering. It's a very expensive speaker and most dealers just don't h... 
Best wishes for Tom Petty
Ok apparently he is alive this is crazy but thank God! Lets hope he recovers completely! 
HH Scott 299B with Harbeth/low-efficiency speakers
I say go for it , your Scott 299B puts out 50 watts and your 7's are 6 ohms nominal and the Harbeth website in parentheses says (easy to drive) and the sensitivity is 86db not ideal but doable. It depends a lot on the size of your room and listeni... 
Best wishes for Tom Petty
RIP what a sad awul loss on a very sad day. 
Best wishes for Tom Petty
It sounds pretty credible I know he postponed several concerts in the Bay area this summer due to illness and NY Daily News is a pretty legit source. Sad if it's true and sadly not the saddest news of the day. 
Full MQA music list.
I got the following response from Tidal this morning. TIDAL Support [KevinMN] (TIDAL) Oct 2, 8:26 AM...