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Biggest audio hoaxes
Biggest Hoax, How Magazine - Reviews (Essentiually Indirect Adverts) influence readers the next big thing in Audio are the ones they reviewing until next year when it just repeats itself all over again.  
Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms
Richard Mak is my recommendation for Pricing, Quality of work and overall workmanship to bring back the tonearm like new. His Silver wire upgrade is also highly recommended. 
A speaker audio journey over: Classic Audio Loudspeakers T1.5 Reference = End game
I have the Classic Audio T1.5 Field Coils and the T3.4 Field Coils. Nothing else has come close to the realism of musical emotions being portrayed in the listening room. Going past all the technical terminology. To my ears, they have the lowest Fa... 
Why do we want to distortions?
We said Tube Amp Sounds Better :-)Who said Medium Rare Steaks tastes better? 
Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com
Why don't you just buy from a Local Dealer. Line Magnetic Stuff is shipped from China and many of the items are old discontinued or back of the factory products that have not passed quality control properly and are not fit for export.  
Purist Audio Venustas vs. Nordost Quattro
I would suggest the Purist Audio. 
Power Conditioner vs A/C cables
Elgar 3006B is a massive PC, Ralph has one you should contact him. 
Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo
Classic Audio T1.5 would be a better investment (Wallet), better musical satisfaction and joy over these Wilson anyway. OTL with Field Coils Horns will have less distortion, more speed, transparency blah blah blah at much less. These overpriced s... 
Power Conditioner vs A/C cables
Ralph, at Atma-Sphere has one of the best Power conditioners you can obtain at the moment. Elgar Units that were made many years back still are much better than anything made today. It a proper Labtory Power condition using the fastest response time. 
Has anyone made interconnects using Duelund 2.0 Silver Foil?
I used to use Neotech Cables, Moved to Purist Audio and now I use Albedo Silver Cables and Purist Audio mixed into the system. 
Silver cables added resolution
some of the worlds most expensive cables all use Silver to high purity form. Silver has had bad reputation only because of the internet rumours based upon someone opinion with inferior grade stuff.Real Silver, not Mixed stuff sounds anything but b... 
Silver cables added resolution
that's utter nonsense about Silver Sounding bright and thin :-) This comes from those who purchased inferior grade silver-plated stuff or are just spreading rumours based on other people opinion.Albedo Silver Cables Their Mono-Crystal Version are ... 
Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD
Playback Design Internally converts All PCM to DSD 128 which Andreas believes is sweet spot. See below How does the MPD-8 process files?“All digital input signals (including DSD64) are converted to DSD128 with our proprietary frequency and time do... 
Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD
Your comparing a 150K Wadax Dac to a 25K Dac??? No idea how that would compare. 
Higher End DACs
Even if money is no object, i will still stick to the Playback Design. When i sold off my MSB DAC, I then went off to Total DAC and then Lampi. Both of these dacs are very fine too and not much to complain about. I did have Noise issues with the L...