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best phono stage under 10k
Give Keith Herron a call. 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
@millercarbon Would you please talk about the acoustic treatments in the room, particularly the wainscoting that appears to be soft fabric.Also the room looks to be very absorptive and I don’t see any diffusers.Room acoustics. Well first of all th... 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
Erik you're looking at the 16 year old pics on theanalogdept. The new ones are here https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367#&gid=1&pid=11 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
That must have been a prodigious amount of work! The turntable materials you've machined are really nicely done.The bearing, platter, and motor are a collaborative effort of advanced audiophiles led by Chris Brady who started Teres Audio to sell t... 
Perfect Path Total Contact Inside a Power Conditioner a good thing?
It this scientifically explicablePretty sure. But you guys won't like it. Especially the one who appears to be the world's most comprehensively misinformed theoretical physicist. Matter has anti-matter. Intellect has.... him. 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
My hypothesis is that playing the same tune twice will always yield a positive outcome for the second play as the brain has already laid down the initial pattern. Playing the same thing twice (or more!) is one of those things a lot of guys do, ... 
Soft Dome tweeter
Tape, good one.Disassemble???! Lord help anyone reads his posts for anything other than their (meager) entertainment value. 
Power Conditioner
Millercarbon, your answer certainly addresses in system connection issues, but not power isduesAu contraire, mon frere!Anyway, what does it matter? Assuming of course you're doing this to get better sound, this will get you much better sound than... 
Sunday Morning sounds
There is just something about a Sunday morning coming down.Johnny Cash? 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
slaw-We are similar thinkers, brother. Yes and you have a lot of BDR too, right? So you can imagine better than most with every single thing on BDR just how deep into the recording my system goes. There's actually at least three levels of tweaks ... 
Onkyo Receiver TX 2500 or Sony TA F444ES Integrated Amp
Incomprehensible. But if the question is receiver or integrated, the answer is integrated. Don't go receiver. Just don't. 
Power Conditioner
Don't know your budget, but $300 will get you enough Total Contact to coat your Power Block and everything else in your system to beyond anything you will ever get from a power conditioner, certainly without spending several times that amount of m... 
Trade Parasound JC3+ for Herron?
Never compared. Read all the reviews and comments, talked to Keith, bought the Herron, haven't looked back.Before the Herron it was more than 15 years with the ARC PH3SE. Must have done home auditions with at least a dozen stages before going with... 
Home Theater Done Right: Millercarbon's System
Wow, nice system & room! I like the careful routeing of cables. Have you thought about upgrading the power cord of the lava lamp? ;-) The lava lamp power cord isn't detachable. No IEC. See? And you don't mess with vintage gear like that. Ki... 
Auditioning amplifier gear: simultaneous auditions, online retailers you trust?
* budget $3k max; be nice to hit below that, say $1.5k QUESTION: My question is about how to narrow down choices. And I heard "choose speakers first" about 1000x. (I take it that you dispute that wisdom.) Absolutely. Keep in mind, what you hear ...