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Gilbert Yeung and Blue Circle - New Brand / New Dealer
Glad to hear it! I ran a Blue Circle BC21 pre-amp for many years and loved its design and sound.   
List Of Small Company Tube Amps
+1 on Triode Corp from Japan. Well made and smooth sounding.   
List Of Small Company Tube Amps
These may not qualify because their owners/builders either passed away or no longer design, but if you can find them on the market, they're well worth the effort and price: Herron Audio LFE Croft  
Toe in is crucial
I'm the rest of us, and I don't obsess over the smallest tweaks, most of which are simply conduits for confirmation bias. However, toe in can indeed make all the difference. Like, @hilroy48, i blue-taped the placement grid for my Spatial Audio M3'... 
antique sound lab head
You might want to contact Tash Goka up at Reference 3A. He was the former distributor for ASL.   
Here's to the temperate, the gentle, the moderates in audio
The late Don Hoatson of The Listening Room, formerly in Baltimore,  now in Chestertown, Maryland,  is one of these. He was my first real audio dealer and he talked me out of buying more things than he sold me." The world does not need another prea... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Checkfield - Water, Wind. and Stone. 80s new age jazz up there with Metheny and Winter  
Humour
My dog seems to have lost his voice. He's a subwoofer  
What’s your opinion about Dali speakers?
@soix +1 Here'er some questions for the OP to address: 1. Existing speakers and configuration? 2. Surround room environment - shape, treatments, bright or warm sounding? 3. Budget 4. Existing amplification and components 5. Preferred sound a... 
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SYSTEM IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS
"Love Over Gold" is an exquisitely written, performed, and recorded tune. Layers and layers   
Break in for a retip?
Thank you all for your answers.   
What is A.R.T? I have to say this is a little too much for me.
"What you will hear...are the subtleties of refinement."     Whatever that means. Additionally, the five comments on the video attest to how the commenters saw these things all over equipment at various rooms at audio shows but couldn't tell whe... 
1 song you never get sick of?
Coltrane - "My Favorite Things"  
**Smoking integrated tube amp, advice needed:
This sounds like a short in the tube connections. The amp itself could be 13 years old if it's a first year model MT34, and so may have been passed around beforehand.  Stick with tubes! They really pay off and are much less fussy than some here m... 
A budget turntable exploration
@lewm. Yes, the de Capos compensate for a lot. I switch between them and the Reference 3A MM Gen 2, which are a bit warmer.  @noromance. True. But as long as they know vinyl can sound decent.  @mahler123. English! High school and collegiate.