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Question on shipping speakers without boxes.
bring them to ups office and let them do the job. 
Help: Noisy Tubes
i also believe that problem is beyond tubes and you should check the rest of circuit for bad caps mainly. 
The Best Inexpensive Wines Available Now
Bella Sera for me works great but some puffff works much better.Disclaimer: pronouns sound 'f' to yourself not like conventional english alphabetic sound 'f'...:-) 
Does your system reflect your personality?
not sure of personality but it does someway represent the music i listen to and lots of that music is literally CRAZY.i certainly wouldn't go that far to grade spirituality or personality with tubes or ss for holly ghost sake!!!...:-) 
Question regarding burn-in
with small signal it's impossible to burn-in.if you apply some high voltage 300...400V than your interconnect may work as fuse and will eventually burn ...in. 
Totem Acoustics Customer Service
It's a summer time and not every day the e-mail is checked in Totem customer service.You should give it a couple of days and your question won't be neglected there.Matt,I will probably need to replace my tweeter in Totem Forest loudspeaker can you... 
More Music Gemm
I could never imagine that I would ever find records of Benjamin Lew or Magma but here Gemm goes where you can get rarest items produced only in hundreds for the whole world. 
Oracle Alexandria Question
I've set up my friend Alexandria TT with original Prelude arm and cheap Grado MM cartridge. Than he upgraded to Goldring Eroica. The setup is increadible with Michell ISO phonostage stolen for $200 the one made by Tom Evans. No compromise in dynam... 
Totem Hawk 86 db sensitivity
Hawks are great if you won't run them loud.They need at optimum 100W each.Kestrels do also benefit from stronger drive and can sound significantly more loud i.e. having stronger drivers. They're one of my favourite speakers in its class. 
unico 80wpc enough for dynaudio contour 1.3 mkII?
Listening to Unico I doubted on its power specifications and it seemed to me far less powerfull than it should be.It usually being demoed with light speakers such as Triangle or Coincident but I'd realy doubt the success pairing it with Dyns. Even... 
I have a vocabulary question.
Every signal path consists of forward and return paths.A power cord has the plug with two or three prongs. Two of them are signal ones and one is ground. Signal ones are hot and newtral. Hot is forward and newtral is return.A speaker wire consists... 
Cones, Points, Tweaks...???
the second hassle after wires are cones, points and tweaks that realy cost pennies and you pay large hundreds instead.try to develop tweaks yourself. they realy help but shouldn't be on the list of budget allocations. just my $.02 
How to go portable??
I wouldn't go for tube headphone amp cuz it won't be portable anymore. You should never bend it and you can't cary it in your bag. You should look-up Headroom ear-amps. Consider AKG240D. 
Anyone Bi-amping with tube high & solid state lows
a..a!who sais that gain of amp is fixed?? the word "impedance" already dictates that the gain of amplifier is not fixed.crossover interfaces as a "third-party" component limiting visible freequencies of each amplifier.with no active crossover even... 
Anyone Bi-amping with tube high & solid state lows
Gain controll isn't a bottom line here.The gain should be controlled dynamically unless the amps at the top and bottom end have absolutely identical characteristics. To controll gain dynamically you need an active crossover and remove built-in spe...