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marakanetz

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Quick poll: Listening at night, lights ON or OFF ?
Td,I've never experienced headphone listening while operating a crap machine LOL! 
Quick poll: Listening at night, lights ON or OFF ?
Please be warned that cables might not be visible with no light at night:-) 
Dark and laid back vs bright and forward
Just spotted a great memories of Patrick(Lugnut) may God rest his soul in great piece. 
Vandersteen 7s
I haven't heard 7's but hearing 5A's gave me an idea how pointless to spend even fraction for these. 
dumb question, how to fix loose termination?
Naked wire not only will fix problem but will be more superior than banana plugs. Just only slight inconvenience of connecting them. 
Need advice on next step
I also like SFL-1 but also would add a good quality SS preamps such as Classe 60. 
In the meantime
I would stay out of playing uncompressed recordings(even at moderate volume levels) not to bring the receiver to clipping in the mean time... 2Ohms might seem a large enough tolerance gap, but your speakers might even go bellow 4Ohms. 
Quick poll: Listening at night, lights ON or OFF ?
On when placing a stylus on vinyl. 
vinyl cleaning with wood glue....works?
The pick-up I believe is strong enough to scratch off the 'residues' of glue. Mk sure your preamp is muted or turned away from the phono input selection:-) 
Help with Marantz 4270 quadradial
looks to me that your speakers are way under-powered and your receiver is clipping. These aren't definitely for vintage receiver or amp. 
Triangle speakers not for rock?
Not 4rock means they'd suck everywhere else to some degree IMHO. 
Name your lame duck artist........
OOPS forgot about All-American John BJ 
Dynamic Headroom
In plain English...means an ability to reproduce a large interval between 'quiet' and 'loud'.The sound system (mainly defined with amplifier and speakers for dynamic headroom) with large dynamic headroom does not compromise the sound quality with ... 
Help with Marantz 4270 quadradial
What speakers you're driving?The vintage amps aren't for today's speakers for sure.Servicing this amp IMHO might not be a large burden as it would seem. 
Underappreciated components.
I've had Sunfire Symphonic Reference stack amp and pre.The amp is really underestimated component that has an ability to bring to life toughest speakers. There's no limit on load to drive weather it's very low or too high. It's load-invariant amp....