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Room Treaments - Where To Begin...
Audiotools is a good start, you can run the RT60 test w a handclap but a popped ballon is better.  Audiotools runs on iphone or ipad. I would not trust the iphone microphone below 120 hz. Audio Control ( Lynnwood, WA make a decent affordable calib... 
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
well then, Townes - Flyin Shoes    
Audio Research or Luxman?
Also, check FleaBay, many Japan vendors of vintage Luxman gear, perhaps they have a line on parts in country…  
Audio Research or Luxman?
tastes change, there will be a ready market for the ARC gear. A competent tech should be able to gin up working potentiometers. Music Reference still has some NOS Nobel pots in tock, both stereo and mono in a variety of values. Just my $ or ¥   I... 
Room Treaments - Where To Begin...
Textbook RT60 for a mastering control room, mostly accomplished with natural treatments, a bit of hidden in art absorbers, etc..  But first a question (s ) to the OP about your tastes, what is your resident orchestra and where are your preferred ... 
Stacking mats on Technics SP-10R
reading comprehension not a strength, see OP statement about willingness and capability to adjust ….VTA    
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Limehouse ( blue cover in unopened shrink ) on the way from USA :-) I am a triggerhappy robot in a triggerhippy mood  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
must just be the phono section…ha. Messing with you. I think i need a much needed pilgrimage to Joshua Tree…. I am a cactus robot in a fake astroturf lawn world  
Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears
without a doubt, Alison Krauss - Ghost in this House of course, any number of Hiatt songs… Lipstick Sunset, etc. The great Lucinda Williams with Dust Loved the mention of Nanci Griffith - her beyond brilliant Other Voices, Other Rooms I am a t... 
Best speakers around $130k?
as far as the yacht goes, just a lowly aluminum fishing boat, and a housekeeper who knows NEVER dust the HiFi  !,, especially the turntable  I am a clean room robot in a dusty world… Jim  
Best speakers around $130k?
both of my posts were serious and based on ownership or very extended listening…. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/3803    
Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems
thinking of bringing in a Master and appropriate EQ to evaluate it….like the OP , several people who i trust greatly have heard it, think highly of recent progress made in sonics, yet also understand the nuances in playback chain sonics, system sy... 
Vandersteens-- Removing M5-HPs for a Digital Xover?
Sometimes….which Even tho it’s a PITA, it pays to listen…. I expect the real work on the Theta filter was Jim White. Great engineer w good ears. Might come down to preference. As Johnny says, always good to verify actual crossover performance usin... 
Best speakers around $130k?
or MBL with a Musical Fidelity AMS-100, you will need staff onsite to move any of it….but big fun I am a MBL robot in a cheap beer world..  
Best speakers around $130k?
Easy…. Vandy 7 extreme, Vandy liquid cooled monoblocks, Vandy Sub 9 swarm configuration….. best is a silly question… i am a good, better, best Robot