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What is your experience with Magico A3 or A5 speakers and the company as a whole?
Purchased A3's with the mpod footers used and barely broken in. The spikes on the pods weren't long enough to go thru carpet and pad to the underlying wood floor. Reached out to Magico and they sent me longer spikes for free, so my experience was... 
SS Amp Upgrade Thoughts (from Simaudio) with Magicos
"Perhaps a bit more slam, transient speed. While the base is tight and precise, could possibly be a bit fuller.  (No room to have a sub.)" I have the A3's powered by Hegel H20, only have heard them with a Conrad Johnson MF2250 and a McCormick amp... 
I could not hear a difference between Analog and digital...... what gives ?
@bigtwin  Exactly what I was going to post but you say it better than I. At a certain level of resolving quality in your system the recording quality makes a huge difference.  
Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was the middle act (not headliner)for many shows I saw at Phillys Spectum inthe early 70’s, very hard touring band that didn’t reach headliner status till Aqualung came out. Favorite albums are Benefit and Stand Up.  Was always disa... 
Graphene infused OCC conductor
Back when Perfect Path technologies was selling their graphene Contact enhancer, the inventor was touting the feature where imperfections in Interconnect and speaker connections was filled in by the graphene reducing micro arcing related noise. M... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Free- Fire and Water Kansas S/T  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Introducing the eleventh house with Larry Coryell 1974 Randy's Brecker trumpet Alphonae Mouzon percuss The godfather of fusion guitar  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Gila "Bury my heart at wounded knee" Camel " Mirage"  
Recommended a highly resolving cartridge
Was in the VPI room at CapitolAudiofest and Harry Weisfeld went  out of his way to praise the Art-20 as very special, and he has heard a few cartridges in his day.    
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Cowboy Junkies "all that reckoning " Bill Connor "Assembler"  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Yes Fragile - Rhino Steven Wilson remix on green vinyl. Nice improvement on the original mix and only $25  
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
Hawkwind "The Hall of the Mountain grill"  
Your favorite obscure song
The First Edition "just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)" Kenny Roger's singing about LSD? https://share.google/hSGRTgvx39pxMtnF7  
What’s playing on your turntable…. Does anyone care?
When I'm moved by an lp thats not very common I'll usually post for 2 reasons - 1- to hopefully turn someone onto something they're not familiar with Or 2- to remind someone that has the lp to pull it out and give a spin. I for one am always lo... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Youngbloods Elephant mountain  Darkness Darkness such a great song