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My Home Speakers, My Car, and Me...The Ballad of What's Going Wrong?
car audio benefits from synesthesia  
Vandersteen Treo CT vs Mag 3.7i speakers
There are many Vandy/Maggie fans who switch back & forth.I switched from Vandy to Maggie in about 1995.  I had them both in the room and switched back and forth for 2 months.It was close.Since then Maggie has the x.7 series which is large upgr... 
Album Recommendations for Magnepans
look in your collection for well-recorded selections that do not rely on deep bass 
Dedicated Music server vs Mac mini on a Devialet via Ethernet (AIR) connection
you can put an LPS in the mac mini 
Oppo UDP - 205
I'm not an MQA fan as I don't see what the benefit is vs. a HiRes recordingand... it opens the door to DRM 
Oppo UDP - 205
milpai - smart $$ allocation in your post above 
high frequency intermittent noise
unless... the cell tower is somehow causing the lower freq. noise - maybe drawing on a power supply or something 
Opening a can of worms
clique, not clickmaybe call the group CCP (for Cable Clown Posse) 
Let's talk power cords
experiential confirmation biasGood thing you are not allowed near drug development labs 
Another Free Tip That Yields Better Sound!
yeh - but the bald head will reflect the highs tooyou don't want a bald guy anywhere near you 
Better Sound For Free!
Be careful - not all caves are Audiophile Quality!  People are selling a bunch of cheap junky caves (many from China) with LowFi sound.Caves in granite are FAR superior to limestone.  With granite, you can anchor those speakers AND your listening ... 
Suggestion on XLR Cables
Yup - that can happen I wonder if Cary used some cheap op-amps that caused that? 
Let's talk power cords
When observation isn’t supported by current science (in part, a body of "rules" or principles that help us understand, order and predict reality) the rules have to be amended to include confirmation bias as a cause.Lousey observations are of no co... 
Let's talk power cords
Oh, that's nothing - the After luke power cords  are much better than the After mark ones 
How much difference could a simple Banana plug make?
AFAIK, Ayre use Rh for its corrosion resistanceand breaking / cleaning that corrosion often accounts for the claimed benefits of new cables (!!)