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Rock with strings
ELO should be right up your alley. 
JMF Audio: Any experience with JMF Amps/Transport?
No experience but it seems to me they have simply copied (at least in many ways)the electronics pioneered by Kinoshita Monitor Rey Audio. This does not invalidate them but does give one pause as to who is really the brains behind the products. 
Turntable placement
To Lewm re: "...a possible record for use of commas..."Obviously you were never a reader of the oft ballyhooed HP, the James Joyce of audio related writing. 
Atma-sphere amps best power tubes
I keep hoping that Ralph and crew will follow thru one day on the oft hinted at 6AS7G tube tester that they were going to build. A lot of us would really like to put to bed once and for all the issue of whether or not our various testers are up to... 
Stillpoints Ultra SS under your speakers?
By default I ended up with the Ultra SSs on the larger 3" stainless steel bases (can't remember what they're called). Jim Smith told me that the name of the game with my Duos is decoupling...not coupling them to my raised carpeted wooden floor. I ... 
Vapor Sound Audio/tons of Value for $$$$
And while you're at it, ask Mr Schroeder if he has ever taken delivery of the Vapor Joules he ordered some 10 months ago. I asked a couple months ago but was not favored with a reply. 
Salk vs Daedalus Speakers
Hopefully Audiotomb will see this post. He is moving from the Salks (the 8s I believe) to Daedalus after months and months of what have proven to be insurmountable problems with his Salks. BTW, this is his second pair of Salks.I would prefer to le... 
New Orleans high end stores?
Don't have any real up to date info on Jay but Audio Resource has been closed for probably five years now and, last I heard, Jay had set up shop in Baton Rouge but I think that operation has also closed down also. 
Bybee Internal Speaker Bullets - user feedback?
Bybee products tend to be controversial but I'll be darned if I can see why. I have used his power cords, early models of his speaker bullets, purifiers soldered directly in line with the drivers of my speakers themselves and purifiers that go bet... 
any experience with Polymer Audio Research speaker
Peter Breuninger has a video tour of their room and an interview with the designer posted at AVShowrooms 
Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere
You would need to remove a specific driver tube from each amp (don't know which one) and replace each with a special shorting tube socket that Ralph sells. Gain on my M60s is reduced by 12 db (supposedly)using this tactic. 
New Orleans high end stores?
Audiolab, the store in Metairie was called Audio Resource and was owned by Jay valentino who now operates out of the above mentioned store in Baton Rouge. 
What's wrong with my almost new speakers?
On my keyboard "v" is just below "g". Hope this helps. LOL. 
Bolero:why can't my system reproduce snare well?
I think Geoff Kait is onto something. Is a speaker hooked up out of phase, possibly? Decay trails, intelligibility and sounds with a fine sheen are always compromised when phase/polarity reversals are present. 
PS Audio Power Plant Premier Issue
I was just quoted $500 to rebuild my vintage P300 within the last couple weeks. Elected to go a different route.