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Wise audio aphorisms
if it's music to your ears stop upgrading 
bldg system starting with Gallo Ref 3.1
Why not start inexpensively with a receiver, it can always be upgraded. If you never intend to use the radio then maybe an integrated amp might be a simpler way to start.A CD player and your set, the way forward can be as intricate and or complica... 
Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44?
In addition to those mentioned above:Van Cliburn version with the Symphony of the Airconducted by Kiril Kondrashin.It is a live performance at Carnegie Hall in 1958. While having sort of passed him off for some years as over hyped have been listen... 
European Speaker Price Increase
Given the price increase would it be cost effective to buy in Europe, avoid VTA since it is going out of the continent and even with shipping costs be cheaper than buying here?Once the Federal Reserve begins to finally raise rates again and chop o... 
Power Conditioners?
check out sound applications a used X-12 with twelve outlets six analog and six digital tend to come up every so ofter, average $1,000 to $1,500 
'they blew'em off the stage'
doesn't quite fit but there where times at winterland when the Dead and the Jefferson Airplane would play with maybe a band inbetween their sets. It started at about 7 or 8 and ended around 2 a.m. or so. Totally indifferent as to who blew who away... 
Music for Organ, Brass and Timpani on Sonoma
Only have the LP, It is E. Power Biggs with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra under Zoltan Rozsnyai with the Haydn Organ in Eisenstadt. Arkivmusic is a good link to finding pieces either by conductor,composer,instrument,etc. good site. Just add .com... 
Music for Organ, Brass and Timpani on Sonoma
A little off target to be sure butRecently heard Haydn's Concertos for Organ for the first time and was blown away. Have never heard the instrument so fully integrated into a piece of music that it fit as wonderfully as a piano, clarinet or cello ... 
Thinking of selling my Teres
My thoughts are with Tobias:If you like the TT and can't think of one you would like better keep it. If there is one you would rather have, and your sure, trade it in. Very simple. 
Van Morrison remasters coming soon....
No Astral Weeks, or is that already released? 
Buying used old cables
Living just north of the Golden Gate Bridge for an extreme example of cables. The cables on the bridge are constantly being painted due to the salt air, aside from that they are the same ones up there since 1937. Audio cables are not much differen... 
SET Integrated Amps
Don't know if they still make it but back in '97, Wavelength came out with the Junior an integrated SET ampArt Dudley wrote a rave review of it for Listener, it was2K new back then, so a used one should be less. 
The most haunting music you ever heard?
The second movement of Chopin's piano concerto #2, especially when played by Charles Rosen, it virtually shimmers as it disapears 
Help. Thor owner messes up
As a Thor owner, the phono preamp, I was very sorry when Paul Marks pulled the plug, but have read in the archives of some who will and do work on Thor products, so check out THOR and see what comes up, there are some who can help if it is more th... 
Message on Behalf of Recordron
Thank you for taking the time to inform us of the unhappy incident. May Ron, his wife, and the driver and his wife all recover quickly.