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Boulder price help
This is a sneaky but creative way of advertising these items without payiny your $4.00 
Beautiful Speakers
I will check into that. 
Beautiful Speakers
Thanks for all the responses. I currently have a pair of Quad 989's that my wife calls ugly black boxes with plastic cheap looking endcaps. They sound fabulous but beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.I am not sure which way I will go next. 
Best Bookshelf Speakers
The Legacy Studio Monitors are the best. Well built - look good in your choice of finish and sound incredible. 
Speaker cable termination
Forget the spades and go with a direct connection if possible - it is just one less element the signal has to pass through. 
Amps for Magnepan 3.6r
Need slots of current- check out the Electrocompaniet 120 or the 250. amp. They sound and look great. 
Tube Amps for Coincident Super Eclipse
The EAR 534 is a great amp - very versatile in the balanced model with level controls for each channel. Tubes do not have to be perfectly matched and no bias adjustments are necessary. It looks great in chrome and sounds very musical with no fatig... 
Sony SCD-777es,standard or custom switch
I used the custom setting with my setup - Levinson 38S and 331 preamp/amp combo with better results than the standard setting. 
Upgrade Rega P25 to VPI Aries? Advice?
I have an Aries and love it - the looks are great and with the JMW arm also sounds great with the Benz-Micro .4 cartridge. However you have a very good table and arm so spend the money on an upgrade cartridge and phono preamp and buy some more rec... 
CD Recorder Advice - Please!
Make sure your unit has a digital level control for recording otherwise in the digital recording mode your copy will come out with various volume levels and drive you crazy - that is if you are making a mix of songs CD. The Pioneer units are very ... 
Top Ten Turntables of All Time??
The BIC 980 - you could stack 6 LP's and just plain enjoy listening to music. Of course then you grow up and start liking the stuff and the music sort of becomes your secondary enjoyment. What a shame. 
What makes / defines an audiophile ?
Nothing sounds good enough - even live performances coming out of Fender $600 amps - insanity - plenty of money to flush when you trade supposedly up and add useless tweaks just cause you have to - and never ever tell anyone you are using or inter... 
Yet another Hum problem
Your Cable-TV could be the problem. 
POWER: conditioners vs filters vs cords
Spend your money getting a good powerline to your system - put a spike in the line and save your money on these items. 
Matching amps for martinlogan prodigy
Try Electrocompaniet - high current and smooth sound the 120, or the 250 - even the 60 will drive them.