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How much power is enough for B&W Nautilus 804's?
3) makes no sense without 3a)remove built-in crossover. 
the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ?
I'd say it's more like EL84 based amps. 
How much power is enough for B&W Nautilus 804's?
Exactly, if you want bass similar to open E string of double-bass Bowers will be your worst investment. 
How much power is enough for B&W Nautilus 804's?
No matter what you do to 804 they won't have bass even with kilowatt per side. Won't go anylower than 48Hz.Running amps of different power puts them definitely out of tonal balance.If you want to get bass the only way with 804's is by adding subwo... 
Odd Revel Performa M20 Question ?
they needed to show ya they're heavy, but not after all. 
Tube Audio Design TA-60 schematic
Besides trivial amateur circuit design people pay a lot extra for the name when they can get around with Jolida instead for much less. 
Please Recommend a Low Gain Solid State Amp ARC
I bet ARC had to do lots of tweaking of their circuit to reduce the gain. Transparency loss is due to the excessive feedback they have to apply. Their preamps designed to be best with tape or analogue sources. 
Please Recommend a Low Gain Solid State Amp ARC
Bad idea since the preamp will not be stable. It's been designed for a specific feedback and increasing it to lower the gain may bring amp to oscillation. 
$WTB$ Audio Refinement Complete Alpha Integrated
is WTB section gone? 
Joule Electra VZN 100 Need help
Send me the internal photographs. If you find someone with 'untouched' amps ask them to send photographs too.Your photos can be handy even if you refer to manufacturer that more likely would ask you to send both units. Does that mean you were chan... 
Cleaning fluid on the cheep
you don't need much fluid for 250 records 
Which song you would love to wake up to?
Fela Kuti "Let's Start!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWRjgathjA 
Please Recommend a Low Gain Solid State Amp ARC
lowering gain of ARC is bad idea. 
Please Recommend a Low Gain Solid State Amp ARC
all you need is attenuation and no gain or maximum to +6db. look for the volume control db range which is far more important. 
Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony Wood Cartridge Feeler
That's the only MM made me think of switching from MC + all these amazing advantages!