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New Adcom power amps?
Did not Adcom go out of buisness ?If so ,someone just bought the name . 
Most overrated bands
Crap is crap and you are doing no favor to someone when you fail to point that out to whether they like it or not . There are absolutes . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
rvpiano, did you already have it or buy it?Hampton is in the"force of nature " realm on it IMO . 
Store auditioning and then buying on-line from others. How do you feel about it ?
No dealer in Twin Cities sells PSB.Nor would I sell a brand sold heavily on the internet .If they did, I might right this second be listening to a pair of PSB T-3’s as from the reviews they seem like the speaker I’ve always wanted, even though I k... 
Adcom?
If you had any amp for 39 years it had problems long before that, you just  don't pick up on it as it is a slow process that you become accustomed to . 
Most overrated bands
There are a lot of "artists" that are not who have huge fan bases  and you have to be deaf and dumb not to know it . A matter of taste,good taste or bad taste and the latter outweighs the former . 
If you like Schubert...
If you don't you don't like music . 
What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano
I've heard a few pianos and to me Gallo3.5 's do a pretty good job of reproducing them . 
Pro-ject 12 xtension TT vs Meridian 808.2 CD player..and the winner is!
Mikepaul. its a difference in listener fatigue more than in sound ,You brain likes riding  the analogue wave not going 1111111 forever . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
veriwide100, great post and right you are !The Lutoslawski -Concerto for Cello is a fave of mine too .A truly great recording is Rostopovich on one of the EMI  " Great Recordings of the Century " . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
The Eiji Oue/ Minnesota "Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances " recording on Reference is , as Frogman has said , a magnificent recording .The woodwinds on the first 5 minutes make me play just that over and over. My other favorite , Simon Rattle with th... 
Pro-ject 12 xtension TT vs Meridian 808.2 CD player..and the winner is!
Try the same thing over a 3-4 hour marathon and see what your brain thinks . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Amen to the vinyl Barbirolli’s Sibelius 2 . I have the album cover in a frame on my wall .For refined folks in other aspects of life the piece I sometimes recommend as a start is Mozart’s Symphony # 39 , very lyrical and gentle with fantastic clar... 
Newbie here with a cable question
+ 1 for JPSLabs , they ARE very good . I consider their middle speaker cable outstanding , 
budget tables
rotarius , The 30 bucks was price for tech to do it in Hi Fi store in Minneapolis . If I tried it would have ended up in trash .