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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Checkfield -- Through the Lens.  
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon?
Meh. Shocker that @millercarbon knows all. Seriously, dude. Head to urgent care and get a chill pill. 
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon?
@jetter The girl I dated before I met my wife still lives in Chittenden and I spent many a happy winter and summer weekend up there.  
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon?
@jetter You lucky guy. I would kill to move to Vermont! 
How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon?
@jetter "Otherwise a lot of us would have deep 6'd our stock holdings"    You mean like Senators Loeffler and Burk, right? As for this site, I think it'll do fine. If it could weather the immediate post-9/11 and the 2008 recession, it should pull ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
A friend lent me several LPs, including Van Halens first. Not a huge fan, but gave it a spin. Roth's voice was beautifully recorded. The rest of the instruments and the mix itself was underwhelming.  
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Frangelica is so seductive. Like, you have a tumbler of it and before you know it, the bottle is gone. I remember seducing my wife on our first date on a moonlit hike with a bottle of frangelica. Good times. She thought I was gay.  
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Perhaps @millercarbon can join the Audiogon Outsider forum? 
Need help in trying to trace cause of distortion
@4krowme --Agreed. There're a bunch of variables here. I would suggest pragmatism:try something as simple as the cables and IC's. Swap them out and see if that makes a difference. switch the tubes - both for different tubes and for placementtake @... 
Need help in trying to trace cause of distortion
^^^^^  So helpful. Care to enlighten? 
MUST Have Vinyl
Agreed with @aewarren. Consider what you loved listening to with your previous format, then find it on vinyl. I usually peruse the Hoffman forums for the "best pressings" of what I'm looking for, then head to discogs to find it. I also find great ... 
why the limited number of Stereophile recommended components in the A and B class ?
Yeah. They only have so many qualified reviewers to go around.  
why the limited number of Stereophile recommended components in the A and B class ?
I suspect it's the components they have personally reviewed in recent times. Still, Stereophile does laud Bryston's components and, if this is any solace, from a recent online Stereophile review (https://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/bryston_... 
I need a good looking and good sounding speaker ....
What's your budget?  
Question re: Phono stage gain and possible new integrated
Thanks for the feedback. I contacted Clayton Shaw at Spatial who kindly said much the same thing. Again, I was worried about too strong a signal strength with all that extra wattage. @almarg Thanks for clearing things up, too. @imhififan You're ri...