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marakanetz

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What should I upgrade first amp or preamp?
Set up headphone rig and keep the rest of components as-is. 
Similar sounding of Lyra cartridge ?
Lyra house sound isn't similar to neither Shelter or DV.It may have some signatures of Koetsu, but with more definition and details.Overall similar sounding Lyra cartridge will be a cheaper Lyra cartridge. 
Bands where U say
LHasa De Sela. Wonderful singer died young of breast cancer and only released 3 albums. 
Com'on...confess..........
Fish For Fish self-titled album. Only few hundreds copies made in Germany. $Priceless. 
How many fuses in a McIntosh MC275?
What happened to fuses are they bad? 
Thought you might like this....
any new ideas may sound, taste good for the beginning, but than they may/may not suck. 
Thought you might like this....
very nice, but i don' like glass platters. 
Budget 2-ch vinyl playback system?
Wow interesting moniker. Do you like Koosh? I like Diesel better, but sometimes I miss Koosh.Project Debut if you try hard you can get at discounted price that includes Ortofon 2M red cartridge.PS-Audio phonostage with volume control hooked up to ... 
Electric Bill
why not you can consider the electric bill and turn off your equipment when you're not listening. it's only half-hour the most of worm-up time that you can actually listen to background music and worm-up components even faster.becides running on a... 
Good Listening Lately
I had a dissapointment when I pulled out one of my favorite Rush albums "Power Windows" with huge bump-warp preventing to play 3 songs per each side. 
25 Watt Tube Amp for 90db Speakers?
Rrog, 1horsepower = approx 745 Watts. Watts, units of power are all created equal: White watts, Black and Hispanic watts, Asian watts, tube and solid-state watts. 
How many fuses in a McIntosh MC275?
Dude, That's fused up. 
Luxman L505-u/KEF-LS-50/25' Run Speaker Cable
Lower volume performance cannot be corrected by speaker wire. It's a matter of amp and speaker synergy. It's a dynamic characteristics with impedance response plot of speaker and even more to consider. In you current situation, I see that your spe... 
Electric Bill
That's about 40kW daily for audio only and so 1.2MW monthly. Enough to juice up the band in the 1000 seats venue. Your room is a-bit smaller.Do you keep all of your amps on all the time?Anyways, you are the champ so far... I'm somewhere between $7... 
Some is good, then more is better?
it's mainly targetted for crowd that didn't go anywhere beyond an elementary or mid- school science. in particular case with my kids, the school science teachers really hesitate how to explain gravity... all of a sudden, for some reason(known or u...