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Shipping B&O RX2 Turntable
Jim, Thank you for your additional info from the original source. Joel  
Shipping B&O RX2 Turntable
Steve, thanks for your continued help. If any Audiogon member has personal experience to add, then please add their shipping experience.I will be receiving the shipment, and need to provide guidance to the seller so the RX2 reaches me in great shape. 
Shipping B&O RX2 Turntable
Thank you Steve,With this belt drive and both the platter and tonearm supported on the same spring- supported sub-chassis, how best to prevent the tonearm from constantly trying to jump due to the underlying spring?If the "pink" is inserted betwee... 
2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy
It is always fun to speak with the designer of any brand so any subtlety of system matching can be worked out.That said, there is a secret lowest priced flexible light weight IC choice  I have heard (over more than a decade} which still provides a... 
Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers
Is reversing polarity at tube amplifier output terminals identical in effect to reversing polarity at the speaker input terminals? 
Interconnects
Realitycables.com is well worth checking. The name for this brand is very well chosen, and have used with pleasure between both tube and solid state preamps and amps for more than a decade.Another excellent brand is named Auricle Audio Design (Aur... 
Tube Integrated Amp - Help Please
If there should be a used Aronov LS-960i for sale while you are still looking, at its usual modest price range  ($1200-$1500) it fulfills your needs with a natural, realistic, impressively musical presentation.The vocal and cello reproduction you ... 
Amp Stand Cone Feet
Suggest you speak with Herbiesaudiolab.net  at 210-530-8680 whether they can supply their "threaded stud glider" in the thread and length dimension suited to your application, This is usable on either bare floor or carpeted floor.Very long-standin... 
Tube integrated with real bass. Does it exist?
Aronov LS-960I has done this with notable success for me for many years. Compared to today's high prices for The Right Stuff, this item falls into the used bargain category, perhaps the $1200 to $1500 range, as a guess.When you check online mentio... 
Looking for really fine cables at really low price
Realitycables.com offers very fine performance which easily lives up to its name. Clarity, detail, frequency extension, and musicality, with the elusive performance illusion of a three dimensional physical reality in the room with you. And, econom... 
Comments on interconnect cables
The Darwin cable testimonials duplicate how I would describe my own results with Reality Cables from Gregg Straley. At $285 for XLR you get to enjoy bragging rights, along with having money left over to spend on the music. 
Anyone into cassettes?
If you spend time away from your primary system listening room, and want to enjoy portable Walkman level analog performance upgraded to truly pleasurable heights, give a listen to Machina Dynamica's surprising offering.Mine even has a CrO2/metal s... 
some of the best speaker cables under $250
Realitycables.com is well worth checking. Still winning shootouts in my systems after all these years. Affordable, too. 
Digital Cable Recommendatoins
I have owned and tried in four different systems the Auricleaudio.com (Joemazzaglia on Audiogon) Encore Signature digital, and also one of his upgrade or custom versions, too.Joe is an enthusiast whose cables transmit every subtle detail of a syst... 
My wife passed yesterday
Chayro,I hope the transmitted support from so many of us here on Audiogon can be felt as a friend's arm around your shoulders in this time of sorrow.From the touching description you gave of such a wonderful wife, as you find your way forward let ...