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World's Best Stereo System ?...
The best for who? R we talking about some standard universal approach here? For that matter we all need to have standard universal personality, hearing, taste. Isn’t it nonsense!?  
New Pink Floyd release
Is any chance that part of income money from this release will be spent by Roger Waters for his support of Putins war in Ukraine ? If yes, I won’t buy.   
Should I buy an SME 30/12A for 15K?
Gold Note Bellagio Reference (15-16K new) could be nice alternative.   
High-end-turntables
@terry9 Yah, the idea to suggest to do not buy anything with wire transfer is pretty helpful to my opinion. If you have any other ideas, please feel free to mention.   
High-end-turntables
Wire transfer!? To pay for the goods!? Abroad!? R you serious!?  
Help optimizing my streaming setup
If you have Cat 8 Ethernet cable connecting your router and streamer, don’t use any galvanic isolators like EverStar MI-300, cause using it will depreciate protective porpoise of Cat 8 or Cat 7 cable Shilling. Any shielded cable connecting the gro... 
Pontus ii and Hi Res
Pontus is not MQA capable DAC. If you want fully unfold MQA you need MQA enabled DAC or use onboard Node DAC. Optimal solution is to switch to Qobus and forget about High res limitations forever.   
Apple Music vs Tidal for SQ
Unfortunately we don’t have proper reference Apple Music capable streamer yet to fairly compare Tidal or other streaming services to Apple Music.  
McIntosh Announces Mc451 Dual Mono Power Amplifier
The only thing about Mac I don’t care for is the green light thing- a little much. Certainly, sound signature is on the first place and I really don’t care about colors, but colors matching. Green with blue!? What a funny combo:)  
Recommendations for good sounding streamer
@soix Uh, no.  Just…no.  It’s complete shite. There’s a reason they don’t make them anymore.  RIP Chromecast Audio. Can you mention that reason, and why it’s “complete shite” for streaming non Hi-Res files? Google's official reason when they d... 
Recommendations for good sounding streamer
You don’t need $$-$$$ expensive streamer to stream Spotify. Get something like a Google Audio Chromecast, connect it to your DAC with optical Toslink to Mini Digital cable and use it as a streamer from your phone or tablet.   
Flat Screen Television behind speakers
One of my fellows audiophile, who invested in his listening room close to $80K (equipment excluded) told me that TV installed on a certain level behind his speakers in his room actually enhances mids and makes stage wider and more holographic.   
Do Costly XLR Cables Make A Difference?
If the signal path fully balanced through all of your components that kind of cable upgrade probably makes sense.   
Do speaker cables really make a difference ?
If your system decent enough, you even will hear improvement from cleaning terminals of your speaker cables not only from upgrading them.   
Turntable question; Does Audio Technica make any good turntables?
In my opinion price range of $500-$1000 would be entry level TT price and brand choice shouldn’t be main criteria to look at. If you really tight on your budget range, my suggestion is to concentrate on proper TT setup, arm and cart alignments. Re...