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Jazz from Europe?
Nguyen Le' is awesome. You need "Three Trios" and "Million Waves" they are better than the others in most ways. I have all his stuff. "tales from Viet Nam" is great too. They are all on the ACT label. He also did a Hendrix tribute. Chris Mihn Doky... 
Conrad-Johnson MF2300A vs 2500A - Opinions
MF200 FET, MF 2300 MOSFET, MF2500,2500A BiPolar. I like the 2500(A) best. It definitly has the best image/soundstage and the best power supply which means bass/ bass control. That's my opinion. ET 
Alison Krause + Union Station "Live" LP
great except soundstage as Rlawry said. It's a shame too since every other aspect including performance is incredible. ET 
Anybody play any musical instruments...........
I have fun with a nice Telecaster/Pod/Marshall(r)Fender Super Twin(l) stereo setup. I have a sub with it too and have a cheap bass and a Fender Rhodes. I can't read so I just figure out songs and improvise. It's integrated with a PC so I can recor... 
Best bookshelf speakers for McIntosh MC275 amp?
What sounds best to you. I like the Micro Utopias. They were much more accurate than the Mini Utopias that cost more back in the days before BE's. 
Bi-amping????
I passive biamp myself and use one amp in stereo for the LF and one for the HF. Even though there is no active crossover before the amp and the amp is sending all frequencies to the speaker the amp is only "loaded" at the frequencies the crossover... 
Need help understanding tube wpc
I like Sean,Rl,Viris comments and would ad that regardless of tube/ss when an amp is capable of X watts/ch RMS it is capable of a different number of watts for an instantanious peak. A better amp can do a peak perhaps 50-100% above the rated RMS p... 
upgrade TT or speakers??
Whats the goal? More what, less what, better what etc. ET 
Speltz Anti-cable needs break-in period?
I love the interconnects and like the speaker wire. Are you saying you found both to be directional? Do you remember which (speaker) runs were the wrong way? HF? LF? OR by four runs do you mean 2 pos and 2 neg. I ask all this to avoid having to re... 
Opinions on Power Regenerators and Tube Amps
I love regeneration for sources and as I said wouldn't do it w/power amps. I reread your post. Do you get the hum through the spk w/ only the power amp on or when the pre is on and is set to phono? Thats a minimum of four gain stages if the latter... 
Opinions on Power Regenerators and Tube Amps
I use regenerated power on my sources for two reasons. 1- its too expensive too regenerate for my big amps. Also regenerators have limiters to protect them. So if your regenerator is rated at X then make sure your amp will never use more than 60-7... 
A mistake spending too much on amplification?
Tweaking of power/inter/spk cables*,AC delivery-filtering-regeneration (very important),isolation products(dampers,cones,feet etc and CD treatments have yielded far more than a component switch in my experience. When the tweaks are done it makes i... 
cable dielectric cause of artificial sound
JD wrote: "I assure you the interconnects your so happy with will be gone from your system for ever"If I found something that made the image any bigger than these I don't know what I would do. Like I said I want to try Mapleshades "ribbon in a bag... 
cable dielectric cause of artificial sound
I saw the chart online that shows values of various materials verifying 5.1 for enamel. I wonder why they work so well for me and make the HF so much better. As I said HF is not only better but there is more of it which helped my overly warm syste... 
cable dielectric cause of artificial sound
I don't know but they are brighter and "righter" if you will. I had other high dollar cables from Nordost,Kimber(KCTG),AQ Jag,MIT and Cardas. The HF on the Antis in my setup was more present,extended and the cleanest I tried. They livened up my wa...