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Best budget bookshelf speakers for 3-600 dollars.
Looks like you'll just make it for most of the floor standing 1st order speakers. The Meadowlarks with their high efficency and easy impedance will probably work just fine with an intergrated amp. Make sure your not closer than 8' from listening p... 
Reaplce Thiel 3.6's Tweeter
I hope you realize that Thiel's designs are time and phase coherent systems. Thiel goes to great effort to design cross-overs that compensate for any driver irregularities. My suggestion would be to leave well enough alone and consider other optio... 
Which Intergrated amp for starter??
I suggest you decide on your speakers first. 
Zappa?
Live at Roxy and elsewhere. 
Best budget bookshelf speakers for 3-600 dollars.
Perhaps you could give us actual room dimensions and your planned speaker placement and listening distances? Do you plan to listen to the integrated amp/speakers while using your computer and/or watching TV? 
Best budget bookshelf speakers for 3-600 dollars.
I'll second Sfar's and third Timrhu's recommendations. I am concerned about the new info re: computer source and bedroom location though. Where these speakers are to be positioned and your listening position are very relevent issues. This may be m... 
New Digital Switching Amplifiers
Eldartford, yes I'm aware of that. In fact it seems as though very few do. My question was earnst. Which process involves the greatest amount of conversion? Perhaps a better question, might be which conversion is the least detrimental? 
Best budget bookshelf speakers for 3-600 dollars.
Sogood51 got it right! 
New Digital Switching Amplifiers
To follow up on the conversion issue. What requires more conversion, digital to analog or PCM to PWM? Like it or not, digital is probably the most popular source. 
A tubes vs. Solid State question.
Matrix, do you think that Mosfets are compromising Pass designs? 
Why do you never near anything about Spectral
I'm surprised to read that Spectral would refuse to offer The Absolute Sound review samples. HP has been very generous in his praise of Keith Johnson the man, his Spectral products and his Reference Recordings in the past. 
Nu force Reference 9 w/maggies?
You might consider trying one of our regular Audiogon contributors and manufacturer's A_rt of Analog Research' switching amps. I believe he uses Maggies as well. 
The Past 5 years
I'd guess digital, especially in amplification. 
Help position rear speakers properly
If the rear speakers are ceiling mounted, couldn't you move the the LR closer to match the distance of the RR? If the tweeters are rotatable, you might want to try (emphasis on try) actually pointing them away from you and having the sound reflect... 
A trick with Scotch Whisky
Perhaps instead of liquid smoke you might try blending your own. I personally don't care for Laphroaig. I don't know if it's true, but, I've been told it's favored in many blends. Perhaps something like that and a less expensive malt might be a be...