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Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment.
@wolfie62Time to time I visiting my old friend who has professional record studio in his house. So when I visited him last time he gave me a lot of his opinions, evaluations and reviews about several carts and tt…based on his listening sessions us... 
Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment.
No, it was about somebody else’s system.  I don’t use monitor speakers in any of my home three systems. Next coming upgrade I’m planning is NORDOST HEIMDALL power cable for my Modwright LS100 pream for my basement system.  
Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment.
Sorry, auto spelling error appeared in the thread title. It’s Opinions instead Oppositos :)  
Tube preamp for my Bryston 7B3
Modwright Instruments makes pretty good tubed preamps. Don’t know your budget so from high to low price 1) LS300 is fully balanced pure class A… 2)  LS 36.5 DM,…  3) LS 36.5, … 4) LS 100… All of them made in US with 5 years warranty…output impedan... 
Very new to high end audio - Recomendations
At some point you’ll outgrow active speakers due to its non flexibility. It could happen pretty fast, so my suggestion is to go class A amplification with high sensitivity speakers….pay a lot of attention to preamplification as sound signature dep... 
Accuphase e800 or luxman m900u for sonus faber olympica nova 3
As an alternative you could look at Karan Acoustics KA S400 or KA S600. VITUS AUDIO SS-025 or VITUS AUDIO SS-103.  I heard a lot of good staff specially about Karan Acoustics.  
Turntable isolation platform Recommendations?
Looks like it serious clashes here between people who probably have deferent level of vibration effects depending on their rooms, houses type, floors etc… OP, don’t trust gurus here…. just experiment a lot and make your own decisions regarding iso... 
Adding Home Theater To 2 Channel System
@bwguy. OP has dedicated listening room so I think the space is not an issue for him. The cost of home theater staff usually is not so high. Advantage of separate system for HT is pretty obvious. All in one compromise 2 channel and you don’t want ... 
Adding Home Theater To 2 Channel System
The topic was was discussed pretty well before. Build separate, independent system with own speakers for Home Theater.  
How much difference does a phono preamp really make?
Theoretical options are interesting and means a lot but practical experience is much more relevant and has more value. I used to have DL-110 about 3 years ago and paired it with Parasound JC3 Jr and Rogue Audio Ares. I didn’t really liked the cart... 
How many of you are digital only systems?
One of three of my sources is analog (tt), but I enjoy all of them cause all of them have their pluses and minuses and no dogmatic approach to it cause for example some LP albums r sound much better than their digital version and some albums r bet... 
Novice Tidal Question…
With good pair of headphones and Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt or Red DAC your Tidal subscription could be mobile and you could enjoy high res sound anywhere… same type connection could also work for a car but only if the car equipped with 3.5 aux i... 
First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k)
Modwright LS-100 or Modwright LS-36.5 is best choice in that price range.  
Apple Music
@james633 I just compared another album El Goodo “By Order of the Moose” Apple Lossless high res to Tidal version and Tidal has definitely better SQ. This time my equipment was iPhone -> Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt DAC -> Sennhiser HD-650.Fo... 
Apple Music
@james633 I have had Tidal and Apple for awhile and I will be dropping tidal. Apple sounds better and the family likes it better (why I have both…).If you use your iPhone only for listening then maybe you will be ok with Apple Music only… I don’t ...