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XLR interconnect for new DAC/pre-amp to power amp--suggestions please for $500 or less
https://audiosensibility.com/blog/products-2/interconnects/#!/Statement-SE-XLR-Interconnects/p/22232352/category=2595836  
Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96
Full disclosure: heard them in different rooms with different equipment.  The Audio Note still has--after listening to many speakers over many years--the purest, most natural, timbral presentation of anything I've heard.  Clearest window to the so... 
DCM QED
Way back in the day, there was a store near Kerrytown (Ann Arbor) closing out a pair of the largest model of the Time Frames.  I was so tempted, but I was poor.  I changed my mind the next day, went back, but they had already been sold.  One of se... 
ProAc Response 2.5 Vs. Spendor SP1
Hmmm.  I'm pretty sensitive to bright speakers, and I never thought of them as bright.  You can certainly experiment with toe-in. 
Experiences moving from high-power to lower-power system
https://www.galaxyaudio.com/education/efficiency-vs-sensitivity  
ProAc Response 2.5 Vs. Spendor SP1
When Dennis Had was still at Cary, he used ProAc speakers to voice his amps.  On his recommendation and that of my dealer (Arnie, the founder of the original Audiogon), I got a Cary CAD301SE amp, a glorious 11 watts per side, that drove them to pe... 
Amplifier for Harbeth 40.2
You might want to read the RMAF show reports on new Vinnie Rossi amps driving precisely a pair of 40.2's. 
Experiences moving from high-power to lower-power system
More than the amp, it depends on the speakers and the ability to drive them with a certain number of watts.Years and years ago I had gotten myself down what turned out to be a cul-de-sac, with Muse model 175 monoblocks (the high current version) a... 
Marantz SA-10 vs SA-KI Ruby
But does it use the same processor (DAC)? 
Hook-up Wire: Duelund DCA16GA vs Neotech STDCT-16 vs Cardas 15.5 AWG
@grannyring So if you're bi-wiring, say, with 16 and 12 awg, it's better to twist the two 16's together and the two 12's together (tweeter separate from woofer), rather than 16+12 and 16+12 (positive separate from negative)? 
why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable
To do list.1. Pick a price point.2. Identify each and every cable at or below that point.3. Acquire (buy, beg, borrow, steal) examples of each.4. Perform extensive comparative listening tests.5. Months later, exhausted, announce to the world your ... 
The "how many reviews it got" rule
Are you serious?Ever heard of Payola? 
No sound from speakers
Surely there should be faint sounds coming from *both* speakers. That’s the detail that I don’t get.  Perhaps you actually have two problems. 
Does this image give you claustrophobia?
Might as well call them Golden Goose. 
No sound from speakers
Have you heard the speakers working?  I presume they were transported.  Sounds to me as if something (more than one thing) got jarred very badly loose.