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limomangus

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Heavy difficult to move speakers- how do you deal?
Definitely get help,4 hands are alot better than 2 .Especially if they are over 150 lbs.  
Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up?
If it's a tube unit definitely. Without a question.   
Be Careful With UPS!
Ok I worked for the USPS and UPS in the claims dept.plus was a shipping clerk in an Electronic Supply Co.in LIC,NY we shipped DualTT,Sony,EmpireTT,and alot more big on Tubes.Ive seen it all.Drivers have to deliver everything sent out on the truck ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Sorry I'm playing cds I just got from my local library this week $1 buck apiece...Tapestry revisited, 30 Greatest hits from Aretha Franklin, The Jeff Healey Band He'll to pay....not bad for 3 bucks...  
How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound?
Funny because I heard a blue tooth speaker that sounded  pretty freaking good and a pool party,.The thing only cost $37 bucks.  
Do your ears deceive you?
Let me know when the holy grail of cable is available.   
If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it?
Well it's going to take over completely some day.Our grandkids will say I remember when a real human being played music,no way...lol  
I’m confused. Please explain.
I think it really depends on the way the lp was recorded.I have found some lps sound fantastic and like you are there and others sadly don't. The equipment used to record the lp matters the most and the engineer.  
Don't do anything!
I can't afford a couple a 100,000 system plus ,so I play with my equipment and I do have alot of stuff,changing things around and I do hear different sounds all the time...lol.  
A nightmare regarding streaming?
I'm from the year of the great flood,I don't stream at all,Never....  
1990 Radio Shack catalog
Yeah back in the 80s there stuff look good and they had receivers that put out way over 100 wpc at crazy good prices.  
How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound?
Now that I'm retired  and I'm 72 ,my system that would add up to about $5,000.Will be my last system I think it sounds great. But I guess as far as audiogon guys think it not good at all.I think it sounds great and that's all that matters to me.  
Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs?
GOOD Question and alot of good answers I never thought of .  
Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping?
I'm 72 and walk 6 to 8 miles a day.After that I,don't need to get up every 10 to 2 mins to turn over an Album.I need to put on a cd and relax....the end.  
Does it have to sound good for you to like it?
I find when I play a lousy recording, it makes my start thinking, is there something wrong with my System, lol....please no thanks.