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Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid.
I concur with markus1299.Atma-Sphere MP-1 or MP-3 
Best speakers in the 50-60k range ?
d2girls,I'm in the camp that believes that you do not need to spend $60K on a set of speakers. I also believe that there are a lot of really good speaker manufacturers out there and trying to find the absolute perfect speaker would be a task that ... 
Clearaudio Turntables
Thanks everyone.I appreciate your responses and you have all been very helpful. 
Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake
I maybe showing my ignorance here and I do not know anything about Magico speakers but every binding post style of speaker connector I have ever seen has a hole in it so you can insert an unterminated wire through the hole. Can't you simply remove... 
MC suggestions
I just purchased a Kiseki Blue after auditioning cartridges at my local dealer. They recommend four different cartridges that they thought would work well with my system. They mounted the ones that weren't already on demo turntables and we compare... 
Best LPs to Test Turntables
I was auditioning cartridges yesterday and I used the the first minute or so of "Time" from Dark Side of the Moon. You can learn a lot from all those ringing clock chimes. If I want to test a systems low end I use about the first four minutes of "... 
DAC's and external portable hard drives
My computer is a newer MAC. I believe the wi-fi signal will reach the media room. I mostly listen to vinyl or CD's. My digital tracks are stored in iTunes and I then transfer them to a seagate HD so I can listen to them in my car and I have a few ... 
DAC's and external portable hard drives
Could you give me some names of DACs that do.Thanks 
Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month.
Nothing is perfect or repeatable in music playback across rooms, time, temperature, pressure, etc. Translation means that something has it’s integrity in ALL playback forums. There is no one perfect playback situation. As far as "flat" this and "f... 
John Prine
A buddy of mine and I were riding around in his old rust bucket Chevy Nova II one night back in the mid seventies. Just a couple of teenagers with no place to go and no one to see. John was playing two shows at one of the local colleges. We decide... 
Home audio system recommendations
You have some interesting requirementsYeah, Live audio will do that to you.but the amplifiers can really be anything.This was kinda what I was thinking, but in reading through a different thread in the forum where some guys were stating that some ... 
Home audio system recommendations
The room can and will probably change. The current room is 10' x 14'. I don't want to influence responses at this time by stating a budget. The current plan is to assemble the system over time by scouring the secondary market. Having said that if ...