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Is it worth purchasing the VPI 16.5?
It is worth every penny, particularly if you use Record research record cleaning products with it. 
Help with tube amps
After exisiting as a solid state fanatic for 30 years I recently purchased a second system that for the first time is tube based. It is a Jolida 302B intergrated amp, Jolida 100 CD player, Meadowlark Kestrel 2s with Synergistic and Tara interconne... 
What amp for Thiel cs3.5's?
The Bel Canto would work just fine. I have owned CS7s and now have CS6s...the 3.6s will work fine as long as the amp can put out at least 100W into 4 Ohms. 
In Shower With M_Logans
So exactly why doesn't ML ship with membranes already showered and dried? 
moving coil vs. moving magnet cart. for Rega P2/3
I used a Benz Micro Glider L2 with a Planar 3 for a couple of years before I traded up to a VPI set up. It was my first taste of what a moving coil could do that a MM cart could not. After that there was no looking kcab ;-). Go with the MC but mak... 
Where are they now...?
Where's John Dunlavy? 
What do you listen to when no one else can hear it
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (even though my wife likes it) 
Music for "Tough Times"
Ditto Tudordennis: anything by Elliott Smith, one of the few musical geniuses to have walked the Earth in our time, suffered greatly, but left an amazing and definitive musical statement quite unlike others of his kind. 
Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc?
Nimbus especially with John Boughton conducting. 
Love it, or Hate it ? (wood trim)
But at least when the amp blows up there is something to burn and produce coals and one can get out the weenies and marchmallows. Let it glow. 
I need help with selection of a pre-amp
I used to have a Parasound 1200 amp and used their 1100 preamp (I think that was the model) The combination worked very well. Also, Bryston's BP25 is a great pre for the bux. You will enjoy much better sound with either of these that I'm sure you ... 
CD Help
I fifth the Jolida. I recently purchased one for second tube based system and while I was waiting for the amp (and speakers) I put it into action where my Meridian 508.24 sits. I have to say it came damn close, especially when I substituted new EH... 
Krell preamps which one?
The KCT CAST connected into your 300cx will sound fantastic. Definitely something to look forward to. 
Fisher Tube Amp cutting out
Sounds like you could have an internal connection that remains closed until the unit heats up and then something expands and opens the circuit. I had this happen to a Fender tube amp years ago and it took a year to troubleshoot the problem. Time t... 
Vinyl Reason
do it for the sound