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A Very Long Primer on Record Cleaning Fluids
Justin time, seven years later, thank you for sharing a most exhaustingly comprehensive, relevant, and informative topic with all of us vinyl lovers!Happy Listener! 
The best CD Player for the money
I must confess... as little as I care to invest in the "perfect sound forever" I now own, and yes, enjoy the Sony SCD-XA5400ES | ES Series SACD Player. Nice job Sony.Happy Listener! 
Wish List For Vinyl Pressings
Hifiharv, I'm with you on this one. Ani Difranco that righteous babe, we need (she deserves) to have far more of her titles but to vinyl Lp!Happy Listener! 
Wish List For Vinyl Pressings
Ok, I know this thread has been dormant for some time but...Well, it has been a wait, and we win again, Luna's bewitched comes out this Tuesday on vinyl Lp for the first time ever!!!Vernneal, evidently you misunderstood the point of this thread...... 
Your best ''outstanding'' products in last 5 yrs?
Sony xa5400es...smooth and sweet and a bargain for another wise stalwart vinyl guy.Happy Listening! 
Your Wish List for Reissue on Vinyl
Boyd Lee Dunlop -Boyd's BluesThis is his first album and the CD release party is in Buffalo N.Y. tonight!...He is eighty-five years old.God bless you Boyd and your music.Happy Listening! 
The best CD Player for the money
10-13-11: KoestnerFor the money only go out and get a $35 DVD player from Sam's Club. Bring it home and stick some soft rubbery feet on the bottom and some weight on the top (10-15 Lbs.). This will sound about 80% as good as any $500 player (IMO).... 
The best CD Player for the money
10 1/2 years and all the time I thought this was one of those trick questions and I was going to say "for playing music, the best CD player money can buy costs less than $1.00 because, there are no good sounding CD players worth hundreds, much les... 
David Berning Quadrature Z or Vitus SS-101
I would agree, many of us wish we had your problems Dave. This gear is out of many, many folks realm altogether, including mine. Tough one, you already like the Vitus.Yet what is the same for most of us is tweaking the set-up of the kit and figuri... 
Looking for "Last" 2 channel speaker system.
I would suggest the Coincident Pure Reference Extreme T's. Like the Kharma, Tidal, Marten, Consensus Audio, Evolution Acoustics,and Avalon Acoustics,they poses the Accuton ceramic drivers. In the case of the CPRE's, Accuton is employed for midrang... 
Your best ''outstanding'' products in last 5 yrs?
the Coincident Pure Reference Extremes. Bravo!!! 
Speakers to hang on to for LIFE
I also have lost my mind over a pair of Coincident Pure Reference Extreme T's. Have never heard anything so satisfying or nearly flawless at any price, truly a breath of fresh air. An easy load, highly efficient, fast, and dynamic like a good horn... 
What are the advantages of a line array design?
...a given mediocre driver maker has the opportunity to make lots more money??? ;^) 
What I learned on Audiogon This Year
...talk can be cheap and listening can be priceless.Happy, the later! 
best powercord for atma-sphere amps MA 1
12-01-10: Snook2Sayles, Which wires make or break a HiFi?? Specifics please...If your goal by this query is to dismiss my remark by specificity or flavor i.e. a personal like or dislike, I'll choose not to enter that trap with you. My point was ne...