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Hi quality A/B switch?
lacking what??... 
music to wake up vandy 5a subs
Once Upon A Time in America soundtrack by Enio Morricone.It has slow string bass that will definitely wake up your Vands. 
The Perfect Listening Room
Carnegie bests with solo live performers whilist Radio City bests in both cases whether its one or band or the orchestra. 
New Cartridge Gone Wrong
you should change your load impedance on the phonostage if the switch is provided. if not you should change a resistor for each channel by 100Ohms(best for most moving coils). 
XM radio no longer commercial free
I'm non-commercial and an extraordinary music listener. First three months i had XM service free in my new Suburban and than I pay for that no more. XM radio helped me to develop new different artists another words overwhelmed me with loads of di... 
300B tube death question........
...something is wrong even besides tube(s).do you have this problem on both tubes and both channels? 
Help troubleshooting amp
fuses are usually checked for continuity with simple $3 continuity tester. in glass fuses you can see the broken thread of wire(sometimes). 
Questions about biamping
you may have a possibility of connecting them straight just with y-connector but still you will have to research their input sensitivity in order to compare their gain in dB and if it doesn't match you will have to use at least an extra volume con... 
Help troubleshooting amp
Ecclectique might be right.usually the faulted resistor looks bad and acts either as an open ckt(very similar to a fuse i.e. as a part of ckt protection). 
The Perfect Listening Room
The perfect one is an aneholic room where speakers are being made.Other than that my favorite#1 Radio City Music Hall;#2 Tow Hall;#3 Irridium Jazz Club;#4 Birdland.You may research the accoustic tweaks used in Radio City through the libraries if t... 
Tube pre w/ remote and phono: used 5-$600.....
You might realize that after the thorough search for $600 full function preamp you won't find better one neither tube or SS to Sunfire SRP which is SS.It has MM/MC transformerless phonostage(MC has near 65dB!) and excellent noise-free line perform... 
Can a bass-shy / polite tubed preamp be remedied?
Yes I do, in Brooklyn. 
Can a bass-shy / polite tubed preamp be remedied?
To answer tube pre modification part,adding an inverting unity differential stage may do the trick. You can try it using Musical Fidelity X10 tube buffer which is realy what I mean above.Changing an amplifier for the higher input impedance(I can o... 
Schematic
agreee...Chris from partsconnexion made SF products and he could be in help for that. 
speaker cable length question
signal degrades more in interconnects than in speaker cables.if not enough juice on input your bottom end will dissapear.for speaker cables it doesn't matter as long as proper gauge and length used for a proper rms or average current. to define ex...