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Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned?
Harman Kardon PM665 integrated amp late 80s $850 at Wall to Wall Sound.  150Wx2 80amp instantaneous current capability. MC capable. $/value could not be better, unless your drinking, with all due respect bro, MillerCarbon koolAide. 😎😎😎  
Think fast: What would you take?
Life. Everything else is replaceable.  
Want to setup basic home audio system
Electronic: Nad,  Denon, OnkyoSpeakers: NHt C3s won’t disappoint.  
I think some cables are just a little too expensive.
Maybe these are more in your price range. ;)I have a lot of heritage low end of this brand and it works quite well for my ears. Blew away everything I ever replaced with them for both interconnects and speaker interfaces. https://mitcables.com/pro... 
Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF!
Yet another thread on the merits of components. In the final analysis, the EARS have it.  
Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?
Simple really simple really, measure with your ears and damn the calculus and specs. 
How to select a good Speaker Cable
Simple really, choose with your ears, and let the calculus and specs be damned.  
Jazz for someone who doesn't like jazz.
Yeah, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Master Sound gold disc if you can find it)John Coltrain - Blue Train (Mobile Fidelity version if you’re inclined, ~$40 on EBay)and check out Oscar Peterson, Exclusively for My Friends series and/or Night Train. , ... 
best source for Pandora
FWIW. Subscribe to Pandora+ for $5/mo. primarily to get “better” sound quality.  My experience with Win10 PC is that Pandora online resolves music much better than the W10 app, where I believe earlier research indicated that W10 app is def bandwid... 
Cassettes still rock!
A Nakamichi deck and Maxell MX, hard to beat really.  
Considering getting a CD player (again). Used? New? Criteria?
There is a dearth of players available at the ~ $700 price point really. I would go new the get the latest and great available. In the past I have had both onkyo and Nad at that price point and both were exception at sound retro, However the Nad h... 
Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers
NHT Classic 3s offer a lot of bang for the buck.  
$10k Speaker Cables??????????????
i believe I used to swap Heatkit tweaks with Ramtubes  in the late 60s :). My man!http://www.pastcatalogs.com/#heath  
Have you ever downgraded deliberately?
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Have you ever downgraded deliberately?
While I have not deliberately downgraded, I have stopped upgrading as my ears can no longer resolve at a level they used to.  Result is different but not necessarily improved to the point of achieving a reasonable value proposition.