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Wilson Alexia 20x15 Room
I have always followed John Rutan's @Audioconnection advice to setup my cables and speaker. Changing speaker cables at this point is expensive as well. I have moved the diffusers to first reflection points and waiting for couple of more diffusers.... 
Wilson Alexia 20x15 Room
John,All my cables are AQ Sky and I upgraded to AQ speaker cables as you suggested . I have AQ Meteor in the system now ( I have to update my system details on audiogon ) I have absorption on first reflection points and front wall and diffusion on... 
Wilson Alexia 20x15 Room
I do have 10ft Ceiling and definitely my 5As don't sound big. They do sound very sweet but definitely not big. all my components are acquired based on my speakers and now I want to change my speakers . I don't want to change anything else at this ... 
Wilson Alexia 20x15 Room
I recently heard sasha 2 at a dealer and it definitely made me think about my speaker choice. But as you all said I need to test the new speakers with my setup in my rom. That is hard part as locally there are no dealers who allow in home audition. 
Wilson Alexia 20x15 Room
Thank You. I tried that but Could not find any dealers in SF bay Area who will allow home audition. 
Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?
Audio research reference 250 for me and I have tried the following amps beforeARC reference 75Parasound jc1Ayre v1xe 
VPI classic 3 or Prime ?
I am also leaning towards prime. I already have peripheral ring and center weight which I can use on prime. Anyone listened to prime ? 
winged c 6550c is not good for ref 5se??
Hi,please update which route you went with the tubes. 
Replacing tubes for Audio Research Ref 2SE
I have couple 6550C which I got from thetubestore.com . can I use one of them ? or will there be a problem ? 
My wife passed yesterday
My Deepest condolences and May her soul Rest in peace. You are fortunate to have her. 
New KT150 tubes?
@Tsushima1yes. That what he told me . He went for training to ARC couple of weeks back, and you have to just swap 120s with 150s. Nothing more to be done. I am going to do that soon , My tubes only have 700 hrs and thinking twice to waste them :) 
New KT150 tubes?
I have Ref 250 and my dealer told me I can just swap KT120s with KT150s without any modification . I am going to do this pretty soon. 
Paradigm speakers
I have S8s in my Home theater and they sound Damn good. 
Audio Research Reference 250 capacitor issue
I think the old Teflon capacitors are not able to handle high voltages and arc replaced them with new gold color capacitors. They are continuing using Teflon capacitors in preamps but discontinued in amplifiers. I have 30 hrs on my capacitors and ... 
Audio Research Reference 250 capacitor issue
There are 2 white caps infront of 8 Tubes in each Amp and one of them failed. But I have to replace all 4 . Also part of upgrade ARC has sent new cables which are connected to the Balanced outpu (The cables which are running from front of the boar...