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Where did you buy your first audio gear?
   
Where did you buy your first audio gear?
This looks like it thinking that is very likely  what it was mine was in the ivory   olor though.   
Where did you buy your first audio gear?
At about five years old I got my first equipment.  There was s big cupboard  in the basement  filled with mom canning  from the summer. On the top shelf there were two old tube radios. Mom or dad had the step ladder in the basement  for some reaso... 
Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room
 anechoic  lol spelling  mistake.    
Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room
Be cautious  of  any Canadian  made speaker.  Most of them are made as tested in the nation research  ce ters anicocic chamber they sound good if you build your room into  a chamber as well if not you have a ear bleeding bright system that sounds ... 
Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet?
Well if you feel ambitious  but a plank of very dense hardwood. You can find two inch thick purple heart quite easily.  Drill and tap three holes in it one in the front and two in the back. Put inserts into the holes and build some ready rod spike... 
Silver Speaker Cables
@urbie +1  
Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps
What is your wire? Interconnects  speaker and power.cords? Do you have a power conditioner  that some things are plugged into? Those things all need to be looked at. Also the newer trend is to talk about sparkle  on top twenty  years ago they call... 
Shave your CDs
@waytoomuchstuff +1   Let me guess you have at lest one high end system  and your second system  is better than ninety  percent  of the audio file s main system.  Lol that is why it is easy to hear the difference.  You can actually  hear the mus... 
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
This is the neotech one I have sitting that I have not tried  yet. I just have a plug not an iec  in this one my turntable has a captive powercord and I bought this one to try on the turntable.     https://www.partsconnexion.com/NEOTECH-78818.... 
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
https://www.partsconnexion.com/FTECH-74278.html   This is the gold receptacles I mentioned    https://www.partsconnexion.com/FTECH-81015.html   These are the rhodium  ones I have.   
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
https://www.partsconnexion.com/FTECH-85538.html   This is the gold one  
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
https://www.partsconnexion.com/FTECH-85537.html   This is the rhodium  48 I was talking about.   
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
https://www.partsconnexion.com/   This is the top of the line one I was referring  to   
Question about assembling my own DIY AC Cable
Sorry I had the number wrong for the copper one. Lol getting  old