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Pairing of Magnepan 1.4 with Marantz SR7007
you want good current delivery into 4 ohms - Maggies are otherwise very easy to drive as they are a nearly pure resistive load, not a complex impedanceand... just use your receiverhopefully, you will be hooked and then want the HIGHLY improved 1.7... 
Need recommendations for floor spike protectors
I'd ask Revel.  You have a very competent high-end co. making your speakers and they ought to know best.If they don't want to name names, then ask what the characteristics are that you should look for. 
Directionality of wire
Better Business Bureau or Attorney General's Office of Fraud Protection 
Need suggestions for streaming files to my stereo
or refurb store Apple TV3 (not 4) - $40 with warranty 
Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil
"lame pseudo tweak"-well saidWhy not just "get lifted" before listening... 
Looking for upgrade advice
Schiit EITR if you use USBthen more listening before a new cartridge (or putting tuntable & pre-pre-am in a different room) 
Gutwire Perfect Grounding Cable
crazyLooks like a good way ot create a ground loop and add noisemaybe they are adding "euphonic" noise (!!)If the theory of operation of your device relies on the greater fool theory, then something is wrong. 
Directionality of wire
if you are ignorant you'll buy anything - even directional wire or liquid metal 
Why is modern pop music today so terrible?
designed for teens and mastered for iphone 
Room treatments
wait - the showroom was meticulously treated 'BY' ASC?or with ASC products??yes, the newer items are hybrid devices, working in 2 different freq. regions - read all about it in ... Master Hndbk.. 
Appropriate Power for 1.7i's
I agree with all the high current delivery into a 4 ohm resistive load comments above (and so does Maggie - it's on their web site)There are lots of amps that can do that and will sound really nice - most are SS; you can use a tube pre-amp for you... 
Directionality of wire
fsonicsmith seems too informed and rational to post on this threadhe might as well be quoting Patti's favorite French poet heresame for almarg - BTW, it is obviously the neutrino flux interacting with the wrong way wire 
Room treatments
ASC is fine ... when used as directed in a program of regular professional care...sounds like they weren't done properly - not surprising at an audio showGIK is helpful over the internet; ASC is, or was, helpful in person18 inches is not bad, but ... 
Gutwire Perfect Grounding Cable
how is this supposed to work? 
What's needed to Steam Tidal
forget the cables (tho many do like the LUSH ones - no one knows why); you might try a Schiit EITR - return if not happyalso ask on:https://www.computeraudiophile.com