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Looking for suggestions on best small footprint speaker under $4K
Right you are kalali, Maggies take over anything smaller than a ballroom . 
Older or Modern amp for older Speakers (NHT 3.3)
I had some 3.3's for about a year .My take was a great design ruined by inferior drivers . 
Looking for a mid-priced TT to install my 2M Black Cart
I agree with you Peter. However while I always use my DD for a symphony I sometimes go to one of my belt drives for chamber music as they have better tone arms than any DD I can afford . 
Where is great audio going? - Headphones and Mid-Cost
Amen !, bsmg . 
Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD
If you are listening to say , Bach. there is a lot wrong with that !Rock matters not . 
Totem Hawks - my impressions
To say Totem is not much on rock, I must say I agree . There are made for real music . . 
Where is great audio going? - Headphones and Mid-Cost
For MANY people music is a social event NOT a musical one ! 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Oh, each and every Bach lover should read Gardiner's  2014,600 page, tome on Bach , "Music in The Castle of Heaven " . Beyond doubt the most masterful book on the Master written in English . A fabulous read ! 
Jazz for aficionados
acman, I lie .I was thinking of Tachibama Womens University , a premier women’s private university in Japan .The feeder HS is about 1200 , 60/40 women to men .In Japan the winds are favored by women as more like the female voice and more "lady lik... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Thanks  learsfool, I did not know that about Casals ! I'm  in great company . 
Jazz for aficionados
Well, I always thought "September" was well within the hazy line of what is jazz and what isn’t . In any event I was trying to show a bit of Japan more than the music itself . I spent 3 years there in my teens and have a deep love for Japan and th... 
Jazz for aficionados
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHsjiZCVSUghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfwoFZerKUJazz is American but there are other lands that love it just as much if not more ! One is Japan which plays jazz with a bit of" lilt" because the Japanese  langu... 
Hear my Cartridges....🎶
Your ears can be just as good as frogman’s, our walking encyclopedia on all thinks musical .First step is to listen to live acoustic music for about 60, 000 hours , maybe 50,000 if you do the playing and either way take Music Theory 101-102 at a u... 
The best speaker you ever heard?
I listen mostly to classical music , Bach in the day (pundit ) the KLH 17's were as musical as any speaker you could buy period . 
New Rega Planer 8 (P8) Turntable - Apheta 2 Cartridge Combo - Thoughts
I don’t own a P8 but have listened to it with Apheta 2 at a friends house , both of us are HEAVY patrons of some the best classical bands in the world and are very aware what real music sounds like .His Rega is very close to the sound we hear in f...