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Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget
A lot of fine speakers have been recommended here, but, one of the requirements is sound that is somewhat soft on top.  Some of these speakers are on the brighter side.    
Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?
Merle Haggard's "Back to the Barrooms" is pretty much a whole album devoted to this subject.  
Seeking a Warm 12AX7 Tube for Preamp
trivema, I am pretty much in agreement on your assessment of 12AX7 tubes.  I currently run extremely expensive Telefunken ECC803S (the real deal) tubes in my phono stage.  It is a very dynamic and vivid tube, but, it is not for someone looking fo... 
Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget
PureAudioProject open baffle speakers are an interesting recommendation made above.  The smaller models, like the Trio 15 with something like the horn midrange/tweeter module might work.  I have not heard these speakers in as small a room ss you h... 
Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget
I also forgot to say that the Spendor 3/1 recommendation above is a good one too.  
Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget
Do you have any placement limitation; such as, the speakers need to be near a room corner or a wall, etc.?  Does the speaker have to be small in size?  More detail is helpful. There are some fairly large speakers that work extremely well in small... 
Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?
Townes Van Zandt "Waiting Around to Die."  
Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?
Leonard Cohen "Closing Time" Guy Clark "Cold Dog Soup"  
Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay?
Easily reversible upgrades, such as trying different tubes would be the best way to start your upgrade path.  If ANY upgrade changes the sound, which it should, that change can be for the better or worse, depending on your system and your taste.  ... 
Cary SLP98L upgrades--yea or nay?
I like the SL98.  It has been a while since I heard it, but, I like its rich and warm sound.  I have no idea what the upgrade will bring to the unit.  A local dealer who builds his own tube gear, mostly quite expensive units, truly HATES the sound... 
Calling All Tube Gurus
Alvinnir2, Very good observations/advice.  Some people get a bit too obsessed with matching.  A local dealer has a huge collection of used tubes that still test very strong and he "matches" them by finding tubes with the same internal structure. ... 
Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?
Stevie Ray Vaughn “Life by the Drop”  
Why tube rectification?
Thanks Invalid, everyone else I mention this to just thinks it is crazy.  After 24 or so years of running tube gear, the first tube "failure" I've had is those pair of 300B rectifiers; a shelf collapsed on to the power supply unit which has the tu... 
Why tube rectification?
Well, I wonder if you would like the "unconventional rectifier" in the power supply of my phono stage.  It runs twin 300B tubes as rectifiers.  
Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State
Is the EMIA specifically wound for your Etsuro Bordeaux cartridge?  I believe that is one of the reasons to buy their SUT.  I've heard systems with their SUT transformer, but, I have no way to assess the particular contribution of the SUT (the ove...