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Connecting bluetooth amps
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What are you streaming tonight?
NCAA Football ALL day via Hulu... 
Shelf speakers for a Yamaha RS202?
In your budget range I would look at older Paradigm,Monitor Audio,Wharfedale Diamond or maybe Kef... 
Not impressed
OP you are dead WRONG!There has NEVER been a better time to get top quality sound from beer budget priced components!DUMP the seperates and get an Integrated Amp,preferably all Tube or Tube/SS Hybrid...Then dump the Focus 110's,which are thin in t... 
Suggestions on speakers
 With your gear from inexpensive all the way to mega expensive look at Dynaudio,Dali & Sonus Faber... 
Integrated Amp Recommendation
Best advice so far:1.Try contact cleaner,most likely just dirty contacts...2.As helomech stated,always get a second opinion... 3.Something new...TUBES or a Hybrid(Tube Pre Amp,SS Power in 1 box(integrated amp)... 
Amps that bring liveliness to low efficiency speakers?
Pure Class A! I read a review years ago on the Dynaudio Special 25’s..The most musical system was a Cayin Class A SS amp and the reviewer stated that because Class A is always "on" it allows saturation of the crossover and faster response time giv... 
What are you streaming tonight?
Binge watching college football 2018 on U tube... 
What are you streaming tonight?
Just finished practicing 8 Brocades Qi Gong & 24 form Yang Tai Chi while listening to Traditional Chinese Music of the South Changjiang River Valley via U Tube... 
SPEAKERS JUMPER CABLES
If you mean BiWire jumpers I was surprised at the difference from those horrible solid jumpers most manufacturers provide...Depending on your system any from $20.00 Mogami jumpers to the $100.00 Nordost... 
Dynaudio Special 40 or OLD Dynaudio Focus 160?
I honestly have not heard a SS amp in many many years and I am NOT a fan of Class D anything...IMO these speakers will be wasted without superb electronics.. 
Speaker match
There is a pair of LSA1 monitors for sale here that are a killer deal & would SING with this amp!!!I have a pair drivin by Quad VA-One tube amp & it sounds amazing... 
Best bookshelf speakers
There is a pair of LSA 1 monitors in Black Ash for sale here that are a SCREAMING deal... 
Best bookshelf speakers
Dali Zensor 3 all the wayyyy! They need a LOT of running in for the bass to come alive.. 
Dynaudio Special 40 or OLD Dynaudio Focus 160?
I have owned Dynaudios from the Audience 52,52SE,Focus 110,Excite X14 & have demo’d the Special 40’s with my little Quad Tube amp.... The Excite series is MUCH better than the Focus...They are more natural with NO bass hump & easier to dri...