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How would you spend my next $5K?
Address room acoustics.  You should be able to treat the whole thing with that budget or less and the improvement will be orders of magnitude greater than spending 5k on gear.  
Found a Milty Zerostat alternative
I bought one to use on LPs, but have not tried yet.  I works amazingly for loosening up staticky coffee grounds in my burr grinder's catch chamber, though!  I use it on that almost every morning.  
Just FYI: Tidal is consolidating their HiFi and HiFi Plus tiers
I find it ironic that they refer to themselves as best in class after they fell for MQA. I had the exact same thought. Why anyone would choose Tidal today is beyond me.  
Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
The key to using a shop compressor is to have a large enough tank for at least one listening session.  I can listen to LPs for days with one fill of my 60 gallon tank.  It's the most quiet air source you can possibly have and there's no need for a... 
A quick question on what streamers to consider.......
Aurender is great, but if all you're going to use it for is background music, Aurender is overkill in my opinion and you don't have to spend anywhere near 2-5K.  Do you also have a 2-channel listening room where you actually sit and listen?  
Advice regarding separate DAC purchase
you suddenly have access to millions of albums at nearly zero cost, many of higher resolution, you end up asking… “what was I thinking? Why didn’t I do this years ago. Absolutely.  A streamer is an essential component.  
Humminguru record cleaner
I’m not worried because I don’t have hard water. I can pretty much guarantee that your tap water still has dissolved minerals and who knows whatever else in it no matter how soft you may think it is.  Just grab some distilled or DI at the groce... 
USB Digitil microscope advice
@normb Yep. Removing the clear protector on the front will enable you to turn the black pointy part, which I assume has a lens in it. This will change the magnification. Try it in various positions. Aside from that, everything has to be perfectly... 
Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures
Thermostatic Controlled Reptile Heat Mats are quite cheap in the US, these are commonly 12V and will comfortably keep a space heated to a Temp Range of 10 Celcius to 25 Celcius. It would not be too difficult to arrange for these to be used in a ... 
Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures
I don't think you have anything to worry about.  If you're paranoid about condensation forming when you open the boxes at the destination, just line the shipping boxes with plastic bags, fill with LPs, and then tie the bag to seal the records.  Wh... 
MICHI 8 Amp(s)
@ozzy did one of the Goertz cables short?  How did that happen?  
Burning CDs of downloaded music
@sealegs I am not familiar with Macs, but I have burned thousands of CDRs on PCs. You need to burn them as audio CDs. It sounds like you burned the .wav files as data. Data CDRs won't play in a regular CD player. Look for audio burning software. ... 
Burning CDs of downloaded music
@sealegs you need to convert it to .wav first.      
Duplicate Serial Numbers
I'd be worried about a manufacturer who can't keep serial numbers straight.  How are they with matching drivers or crossover components?  Can't be good.   
Dc voltage sent to my speakers
If a preamp is outputting a little DC, is it always because of faulty output coupling caps?  Should those caps always be expected to block all DC?  I had one tube preamp that would trip the protection circuit of one of my amplifiers due to DC leak...