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lloydc

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Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood?
PMC for me.  
Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s
A used Rogers High Fidelity integrated might show up close to your price range.  Class A, 112 watts.      
Got a message from a "suspended" member
Move along. Buying online, from a stranger, sight unseen, with virtually no legal recourse, is risky enough.    
Stuff You Tried To Love
con·fir·ma·tion bi·as: noun the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.  
How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components?
+1 unsound politically incorrect it may be, but “WAF” is a factor, maybe even #2.  some of us have little control over the room, which affects everything.  most of us follow an evolutionary path - trial and error. I would recommend prioritizing ... 
Best Covers
Covers are sometimes superior.  Sinatra could frequently improve upon originals Jimi Hendrix playing “All Along the Watchtower (so good Dylan changed the rhythm it to be more like Jimii) and both JH and Whitney Houston’s covers of the Star Spang... 
Jazz Mount Rushmore
These opinions are mostly biased toward bebop and later. After jazz mostly lost its way.  No one even mentioned Armstrong or Goodman.   
Best Covers
"Come Together" by Michael Chapdelaine    
Recommendation Tube Integrated
+ 1 for Rogers.  I have an EHF 200 Mk 2. It’s amazingly powerful for a tube integrated, all class A operation, so it runs hot and is not easy on output tubes.   I believe that its quality of workmanship is unsurpassed.    
Equalizer in a Hi Fi system
Has anyone mentioned the elephant in the room? Eq’s destroy the phase relationships in the signal.  There can be rare times when the benefits outweigh the downside.  But most of the time, there’s a good reason why audiophiles abandoned eq’s decade... 
Results of Actual Hearing Test and Next Steps
Your hearing loss is so mild, hearing aids wouldn’t help.    
The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation"
I also meant to ask: I believe you mentioned that your formula works optimally at 104 degrees Fahrenheit.  I doubt that anyone voluntarily lives in an environment or listens the stereo when it’s 104, and certainly not a tube amp!  So is any adjust... 
The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation"
Wizzard, I would like to make your solution in a 100 ml graduated cylinder, for use in a VPI vacuum drying device. How much 95% ethanol should I use (with the rest distilled H2O and a tiny amount of surfactant/wetting agent). I realize this won... 
The Audiophile Upgrade Easiest to Ignore
@psalvet : thanks for the heads up about the Widex.  I’m considering expensive aids vs Costco.  The expensive one are better, but the c. $4k difference seems to be almost all in the digital processing and audiologist markup. I had Oticon Intiga 1... 
Why Can't Modern Tube Manufacturers Make a Proper Tube?
Many Modern tubes are pretty good, if you buy from sellers who thoroughly test and match them.  They identify a lit of rejects that way, and guess what? Somebody else sells those rejects.   If you’re looking for a “good price”, guess which tubes y...