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What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen?
Audio Vision in San Francisco is as snobby as they come, and seem to be more interested in stroking their egos. If you don’t look like you can afford the stuff, they talk down to you and actually make snobby jokes at your expense...never had this ... 
Innovative Autio in NYC just hung up on me
Sounds like Audio Vision of San Francisco. Talking down on you to satisfy their Egos.  
CD Transport Question
I’ve had many CD players in my system, Krell, Melody, Mark Levenson, Audio Research, DCS, etc, but for me, the best one I actually kept, and will keep, is the Esoteric X-01 D2. Granted, not everyone can afford a 20K player (the new model tops 30K)... 
What do you use to keep high gloss speakers clean?
I use saliva spit shine  
Anyone try BAT preamp to single-end SET or low power Push-Pull amps?
I have an older  VK5i and VKP-10 that i use with my home brew el34 amp, Carey Anniversary CAD 805, and Canary Audio 300b SE amps that sound really good. You need the adapters to connect the SE to Balanced interconnects. BAT and Cardas manufactures... 
My ears are ready to retire!
Been there done that too....burn out. After 50 years of tinkering and excess of $250k spent, i finally settled on a simplified Melody Audio 300b and a home brew el34 system could live with for the rest of my days. I think most people in this hobby...