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What's the best way to send stuffs over to Europe
If you have a business, you can use BAX Global but they will not pick up at a residence. 
Marantz Model 6100, Worth Refurbishing?
FWIW, the bluebook in it is about $100. 
Nakamichi cassette playback in non-Nak deck?
good luck w it. 
Salamander racks?
I like the Salamander racks for storage/display but they do not have any vibration control or damping features. 
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Excellent. Thanks much. If the CD "pop rock" influence is like the "Up Here" tune, that I'm all for it. A good mix of rockin and acoustic stuff worked for Dylan, after all ;~) 
Moderately priced jitter reduction devices
The Monarchy DIP worked fine for me. The older ones do not pass 24/96 or higher. 
Really what are the Exemplar and blue smoke?
Exemplar is the "brand" of modified and custom electronics built/modified by John Tucker. 
Nakamichi cassette playback in non-Nak deck?
Another option would be an NAD 6300. 3 discrete heads, full monitoring capability, Dolby B and C, fine bias adjust, metal, chrome and reg equalization and a "car" setting that compresses dynamic range a bit in recording, to compensate for high amb... 
Simple speaker impedence question
No, they should be fine. 
A packing solution for Audiogonitis carriers
Bowbow- the problem w peanuts by themselves is that the item will shift around as the box drops from conveyor to conveyor at UPFedex and eventually there will be no peanuts between the item and the cardboard. If the item is really heavy, that will... 
How critical is the exact placement of the tonearm
Hong kong guy Arc protractor link http://www.mintlp.comVery easy to deal with, fast turn-around. Not sure I've got the alignment right yet; its pretty tough when you wear progressives and are really far-sighted, but it appears to be well made and ... 
Stumped
That's enough time, IMO. Maybe not perfect sound, but levels should be stable by then. I'm guessing you had a bad connection somewhere in the chain, that was resolved when you unplugged and replugged ICs. Just a guess. 
How many system makeovers to get to where u r now?
Ooops- forgotPhono stages/head-amps- 5Jaybo- LOL 
How critical is the exact placement of the tonearm
Thom- Unless I totally have the whole conceptual model of tone arm-cartridge-stylus geometry wrong (which could easily be the case) your comment about the Schroeder does not appear to apply to the M2, in which the cartridge carrier can move back a... 
Stumped
How much time is not much?