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Looking for speaker recommendations
Salks.  Jim Salk is a true gentleman, will make lovely and to order, within your budget new...those RAAL tweeters with his designs simply make music at reasonable cost.  Within your budget, new.  Grats on your retirement and happy tunes.  Best, Norm 
Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's?
Enjoyed Denon DP2500 which, last I knew, is still spinning 40 years later...at incorrect speed...has a strobe on-board with no adjustment.  A better strobe from "The Tweak Shop" back in the day, revealed it ran fast.  A "post Allen Perkins (Spiral... 
For those of us over 60..
so, topping 70....what was the question?....how in hell did I get in here?....oh, Jimmie Rodgers...in Nashville at Country Music Hall of Fame in 70's...sat alone in a little area watching "Waiting for a Train" historic film, thinking, "This is my ... 
Best Speaker cable in the $400.00-$500.00 range for 2 meters
Hi.  72 year old seasoned music lover.  I spent much time with a local cable designer in Maine who went up against the big boy stuff.  My most recent find has been working with Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio, a small, dedicated specialty company th... 
Stay away from the nad
Hi.  Older duffer with about 40 years in "the chase."  Sorry about your experiences with NAD.  A few years ago, I had to make a tough call.  Had been using a modded Moscode 300 with great success (left up full time) that bellied up.  I listen near... 
Class D is just Dandy!
First time Forum responder...aged audio dude...amps along the path include modded Electrocompaniet Ampliwire II (1980's start of good sand amps) ...modded Moscode 300...Muse 160 and now the direct digital NAD M2 integrated ($6K) with full Marigo d...