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Synergestic Black Fuse vs Audio Magic BeesWax
The best sounding out there — meaning available in the entire world today?Please tell us the full universe of fuses which you have compared directly in the same component in the same system to the Synergistic Blue. 
Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD
Hello chadsort,Your conclusion is dumbfounding to me, but I respect your report and your preference.I agree with those who make the point that to experience the musical and emotional involvement of analog one should play an analog recording. Surfa... 
Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money
How about the relatively inexpensive Zu Audio Event cables? 
Looking for a warm sweet speaker
I nominate the Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage.  
What Matters and What is Nonsense
I think the attitude exhibited by the author of the opening post is arrogant and condescending and close-minded. But he is very well aware of that.I would have expected that 50 years of time in this hobby would have produced more questions and cir... 
Best tube preamp ever
I own personally and I am a huge fan of the Aesthetix Io phono stage and the Callisto line stage.   
Balanced cables
Do balanced interconnects, perhaps because of common mode noise rejection, tend to suppress even order harmonics?Could this be one reason some people feel single-ended connections sound more natural and musical than balanced connections? 
Balanced cables
Am I correct that if an interconnect length is 50’ it is uncontroversial that XLR is the way to go? 
What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion?
I spent about four hours using Google translate to translate from Italian to English dozens of posts about the Alieno LTD 250 amplifier on an Italian audio forum. The translated posts did not tell me anything. But then I found this:http://www.audi... 
Kubala-Sosna Sensation
Your post is not remotely relevant to my very specific question. 
What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion?
Dear Ralph,Where are you seeing semi-conductors?  In the tube section of the Alieno, or in its power supply?Are you assuming a solid-state amplification stage based on the heat sink fins of the power supply unit? 
What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion?
Dear Ralph,Thank you for your reply!Alieno swears up and down that semi-conductors are not doing any heavy lifting, and that the amp is not a hybrid amp, and that only tubes are providing both the voltage and the current amplification. Somehow the... 
What's your OTL tube amp experience and suggestion?
Is anyone familiar with the Alieno Ltd. 250 OTL (from Italy)?Is anyone familiar with the Aitos EV 903 OTL (from the Netherlands)? 
Cardas Clear Beyond Power cords
Will there also be Clear Beyond XL speaker cables and interconnect cables? 
SET vs Single Ended Parrallel
Has anyone compared directly a (single tube) Wavac 833 model to a similar output PSET (such as the Mastersound PF100 (four 845 tubes in parallel))?