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Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive?
Now a BMW, previous, Porsche, Lexus, Lotus, Corvette, Audi, Volvo, Mercedes and others. ...the best drive was Formula Ford at Road America in the Skip Barber Series. 
Thiel 1.5 vs. 1.6, any experience?
Thank you, Jim 
Where stands the music of Chet Baker with you?
Thanks to all for your thoughts. For what it's worth, when it came to drugs...Mr. Davis was a major player. 
Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope?
Acting like you care gets you no where. They do not care what you think of their likes or dislikes, so why do you worry what they think of yours? 
Where stands the music of Chet Baker with you?
Thanks to all for your thoughts. The thread reads like the man's life, sucess and failure on a major scale, or is that minor key? 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
An ADC XLM MkIII with one of the three new stylus I got at a cartridge clinic from Shure in, well some time back. Perhaps a Linn with a Linn tonearm and the Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan "Live at Carnegie" or Linda Ronstadt's "Hasten Down the Wind"..o... 
Best internet stations for Jazz, esp. Classic/Cool
Wow, great feedback, and thank you. Now I need to get up enough money to buy one of the Magnum Dynalab internet radio units....unless you have other suggestions? 
Any experience with these CD players?
Thanks to you both. I listen to female vocals and classic Jazz...mainly acoustic and ladies that are in that classic Jazz and Standards vein. That said I do have some rock and quite a bit of classical.I lean towards the neutral side of sound. Gear... 
What do you like in an inexpensive tube integrated
Thanks to all. The integrated I buy will be used in a second system and will likely use one of the British bookshelf monitors that I have enjoyed in the past, probably with a Magnum Dynalab tuner and some decent CD player, although I may do a CD c... 
Female Jazz Singers...new person/new releases...
Any online site I can listen to Cat Powers? I cannot do amazon as I do not like all of the tracking cookies Adobe puts on your p.c. I would like to use Windows Media Player. Any thoughts?Thanks 
Top Ten Speakers of All Time?
Don't think any of these are in the top 10, but they helped a great deal of us become hooked on Audio.Original Large Advent, Any entry level Magnepan, the 1.2, 1.5 and 1.6 Thiel. Any of the entry level Martin Logans.And for their part the British ... 
A Christmas Gift for Fans of Female Vocals....
Yogi et.al. I did not forget Billie or Shirley or many other greats... But I do feel that Dinah and Rosie get a bit left out at times. Dinah.."What A Difference a Day Makes" and anything Rosie did for Concord 
Cd mats, weights et. al.
...actually that should be sense.... 
Experience with Denon 100th Anniversary Components
Thanks to all for your input. 
Female Jazz Singers...new person/new releases...
Thanks to all....now, anyone want to lend me some $ to buy everything/everyone suggested?....thought not. I do have some of the ladies you have mentioned, but not enough.Best, Jim