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marakanetz

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Tubes becoming microphonic
"microphonic" implies to bad or poor tube that needs to be replaced. you can also tap on amp or preamp chassis to get the same microphonics in that case so you should carefully examine which tube is realy give troubles 'cause you may tap on one tu... 
Best Powered Monitors
Plz also consider Mackie powered monitors of a different sizes depending on your room... 
Preamp Eats tubes..
you should inspect this preamp for proper steady voltages and currents. you can get this information or detailed schematics from partsconnexion.com as well as great technical help from chris. or you have to have it done by a qualified technician. 
In pursuit of the golden ear.
first of all you have to have a collection of very good recorded medias.if it's not recorded good than don't listen even if ya realy like it... 
Best speaker that you dont need a sub under 1.5k
Totem model 1-sig monitors.Dave, I wait to see Grand Pianos for $1500. They're all listed as "almost new" despite being in production quite a long time and every one of them sells in ~$2k range +-. 
BIWIRE TERMINALS
If you have biwire terminals with no jumpers you SHOUD connect BOTH terminals to a single wire(vertically) otherwise you will only hear freequencies cut-off by crossover and filter.If you have jumper than it doesn't matter. 
Where do I go from here?
GR8 system dude.Go straight to 3As. 
brit guitar heroes
Bass either Tony Levin or Jeff Berlin.Drummer Bill Brufford or Mike Portnoy...Keyboards I'd suggest Brian Eno. 
input sensitivity
in addition amps with high input sensitivity have limited dynamic headroom.powerfull amps usually need >2V input voltage to reach full output power. 
cartridge Benz, Koestu, Lyra
while benz is a soft sounding cartridge,lyras are more agressive more suitable for rock and instrumental music. 
Maybe MartinLogan not best for AC/DC at 96 db..??
Save your ears dude 'cause you might not need speakers later-on...Speaking of Klipsch I get tired of them very quickly much bellow 96dB but dare to say they have the best synergy between horn and dynamic bass among all speakers.There are Dyns that... 
integrated as a preamp
As far as I know if you're only interested in class A all the time you mihgt have to use only one amp. As far as Cairn integrated goes it has good active preamp section plus you can use it as a headphone amplifier too.If you want to experiment wit... 
What happened to all the tube amps?
HaHa!!! That's exactly what I've been doing so far:I pull out my hot tube amps when summer is over and put them back to the closet when outside temp-r reaches 80F!!!How about creating some sort of hi-fi exchange similar to e-trade or fxcm? 
integrated as a preamp
I think you can use both of them in vertical biamplification if your speakers have two prs of binding posts. 
Question about Druids
When you speculate "air" you have quite a large room for negotiable prices so there's no loss dude...P.S. Druids once long time ago were one of my favourite tale heroes