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noromance

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Whats playing on your system today?
Lucy Ward – Adelphi Has To Fly (Navigator 2011) Lucy Ward – Pretty Warnings Betty (Beetroot 2018)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Bix Beiderbecke - The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Volume 2, Bix And Tram (Columbia 1952 mono)  
2 specific questions about shipping 42 lb speakers within US
I would use a freight company instead of FedEx et al.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@slaw Interested in your Pods outcome. As you know, I’m a big fan of Nobsound springs with sets under everything (turntable, tube phono, tube power supply, tube pre, tube power amps) except speakers with very good results.  
What Recordings Of Yours Did Not Age Well?
@gochurchgo Awright, spill the beans.  
Tired of all the gimmicky pricing, i.e. $999.99 or $927
@stevehardy1 The OP is well aware of why .99 exists. That's why the issue was raised. Isn't it time we grew up and stopped this ridiculous pricing? Especially in high end audio? I've always found that when someone defends a commonly-held bad pract... 
What does the word audiogon even mean?
@ebm You must be exhausted pulling so many all nighters.  
Thumping noise
Is this a joke?   
the cart or the horse?
+1 charles1dad Tube integrated amp. Add in OFC power cords from Ebay and decent solid core speaker cables.  
Burn in period
It's not the signal, it's the medium. E.g. the crystal orientation in copper. Why would wire be directional when AC moves back and forth?    
Looking To Match A Tube Amp With A Pair Of Audio Note AN-K/Spe
Pass Labs are polite. So a good push-pull tube amp should make the ANs sing. However, have you tried a different preamp?   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@bkeske Enjoying the Dead album art. I was late to the band having got turned on to them from the Freaks and Geeks show.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys – Hard Travelin’ Columbia 1963) Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra Tone Poem For Full Orchestra, Op. 30 (Angel 1963) Pug Horton – Don’t Go Away (Bodeswell 1979) ~ Pug is great. So... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Lucy Ward – I Dreamt I Was A Bird... (Betty Beetroot 2015) Rosalie Sorrels – Travelin Lady Rides Again (Philo 1978) ~ Sorrels album is superb. High marks for the other two. Nancy Harrow – Anything Goes (Audiophile 1979)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Sidney DeParis' Blue Note Jazzmen / Sidney DeParis And His Blue Note Stompers – DeParis Dixie (Blue Note 1969) The Dew Drops With Stuart Foster And Fifi Barton – Rain (20th Century Fox 1960) Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat (Janus 1976)