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Avalon Eidolon Diamond and Tenor Audio OTL
While I think the Lamms are excellent amps (I own ML1.1s), the one you have is certainly no slouch and is quite highly regarded by many in these forums. What is it you don't like about it, and what are you really looking for? 
What constitutes an AUDIOPHILE recording
In the old days, the joke was that an "audiophile recording" was one of an obscure orchestra playing and conducted wretchedly but recorded in the most glorious, natural sound that you ever heard. This was one of J. Gordon Holt's golden rules of au... 
Can metal chassis become defective? I
Trelja's right. I own an 1886 Victorian, and one night in the middle of the Mahler 2nd, as the chorus was singing towards the heavens, the electricity in my house just went off! I went outside and the rest of the neighborhood was fine. Turned out ... 
Absolute Best CD Players Out There Under $12k ?
Having heard the dCS stack, the EMM Labs gear, the Wadia 27/270 and the Linn, I would choose the EMM from those choices principally because it does SACD and I like SACD far more than redbook. If it were just redbook, though, I'd go with the Linn, ... 
what the heck is a Namiki DF-100 Direction Finder
I believe it's a device that will tell you if your component is in correct polarity when you plug it in, or if you need to reverse the plug. It actually makes a difference for at least some European items (i.e., both my Jadis JA80 amps were invert... 
SACD and DAC
Unfortunately, there still are no SACD players with a DSD digital output that I know of, let alone a 6-channel DSD output, at least in the US (a lot of SACD players will have a digital output, but that's a pcm digital signal for the CD layer of hy... 
Meitner MTR101 Amps
There are a number of posts on the MTR 101s, so you might check the archives as well. I used them for a number of years as bass amplifiers for my four-piece system and also heard them at times as full range amps. They are very good pieces, but hav... 
The best sounding Audio Research Line Stage preamp
If you're looking for the one that has the best of the tube-like qualities, go with the LS5. The rest of them, save the 16 and the 25, are far more solid-state like in character. I personally think the LS5 is the best of the line stages ARC has ev... 
Transport & tweaks for audio logic 24MXL
Depends on your definition of "significantly"; there will certainly be a difference. Summarizing the past threads (and you should check the archives) the CEC TL-1 and 2 and the Forsell (which I use) are favored transports with the Audio Logic. I'd... 
Watt/Puppy 7 or Sophia?
Based on my listening in my dealer's place, both speakers well set up, the general feeling I had was that there is a noticeable difference, the Watt/Puppies are more revealing and go deeper in the bass, the Sophias are decidedly more forgiving of ... 
A Good Classical SACD / DVD-A
If you can get into Mahler (and a lot of us hard-rockers from the 60s and 70s like that kind of power music), I'd suggest the Mahler cycle on SACD by the San Francisco SO on their own label, very well recorded and good to excellent readings of Sym... 
My transport has "tuning dots" what are these?
The idea behind at least the Combak dots (and the Marigo ones too, I think) was that they would take vibrations from whatever they were attached to (I had some on my speakers, even some on circuit boards inside my old Krell SBP 64x) and re-tune th... 
classical music recorded in HDCD
Check out the entire Reference Recordings catalog, they were the original adopter of the format and have tremendous quality orchestral recordings (and some very good performances too), particularly of the Minnesota Orchestra. 
Under the Boardwalk
I agree with Mitchchavis, I think the Drifters' is the best version, shows my age. Interestingly, there is an AM radio and an FM radio version of the song by the Drifters ("falling in love" for AM, "making love" for FM). My men's harmony quartet d... 
Wilson Sophia
I think the answer to your first question is probably yes, at least as far as the integrated goes, as I've heard a Mac-Sophia combination and it works pretty well. The Sophia is more forgiving than other Wilson speakers of the electronics it is fe...