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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ry Cooder – Bop ‘Til You Drop – 1979 Warner Brothers   This was the first (July 11, 1979) digitally recorded LP of popular music with vocals. A 32-track digital recorder was used.  
Best skiinny floorstanders
Audio PhysicExample:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa2j8f-audio-physic-caldera-mkiii-full-range 
How Do You Store Your Record Collection? Recommendations Please!
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buget used amp ?
Belles 150A Hot Rod. You may have to be patient for one to come up for sale. Yes, I own one of these amplifiers and they offer excellent performance and value. One person's opinion... 
If your were to assemble a vintage system ?
1. Advent 300 receiver 2. Large Advent (walnut) loudspeakers3. Dual 510 turntable w/Micro Acoustics phono cartridge  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
There has to be a common thread (guitar) involved with these four, just don’t ask what it is… Doc Powell – The Doctor (VTL label, OOP) Nils Lofgren – Acoustic Live (Boy, do I wish I was at this one.) David Lindley and El Rayo-X - Win This Recor... 
Back To Static!
It would be good practice to keep any tape head demagnetizer well away from your phono cartridge, especially a moving magnet design.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio, many thanks for your kind words a couple of pages back. I definitely have some catching up to do…   For me; this is a “desert island” pick:   Bobby King / Terry Evans “Live and Let Live” 1988 Rounder Records Produced by Ry C... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Brooks Williams - Little LionPink Floyd - MeddlePaul Simon - You’re The One (pressed in the U.K., very well recorded.) 
Fanfare for the Common Man,...best recording in your experience?
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a huge Telarc fan (digital recordings) but I have this title on both vinyl (pressed in Germany) and compact disc (Japan). Both copies were purchased new upon release. I’m fairly certain the vinyl was only pres... 
Uneven soundstage help, please.
To re-state the obvious there are many variables that can affect system channel balance. For years I wouldn't be caught dead owning a component with a channel balance control. Now, with age advancing and a mild hearing loss in one ear the balance ... 
Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices?
Top 11 since 1950 (60 years):   Acoustic Research Audio Research Conrad Johnson Grado Laboratories Great American Sound Marantz Mark Levinson Audio Magnepan McIntosh Pass Labs (and previous iteration... 
Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices?
Schubert, if we could only get our brains defragged. Roy Allison was a very gifted loudspeaker designer.  
Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices?
@ schubertPossibly Allison Acoustics Inc. 
How old are you?
I'm on my way to 67, and learning that aging is not for the meek...