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Whats playing on your system today?
Streamer through TIDAL: "Best Friend"  and "Mirror In The Bathroom," The (English) Beat"The Girl Of My Dreams" Bram Tchaikovsky 
have you ever bought stereo without listening first
Yup. Pretty much everyting except speakers the last 20yrs as all the audio businesses have either transitioned to custom home theater and don't demo anything, only sell super high end and carry very little stock, sell online only, or have gone bel... 
Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
Probably The Proclaimers, XTC, and Pink Floyd.   
Decent preamp
+1 to CJ. What you'll will be fairly old as their resale value is very high but there's a reason for that.  
What are you streaming tonight?
Various The Pineapple Thief and Supergrass and Elvis Costello, Waiting For The End Of The World lol.  
How far away from your speakers are you?
Maggie 1.7is, large room in open floorplan, speakers are 77in apart, angled exactly 13.396deg. Tweeters to outside (for now). Ideal Listening position 108in from center of line between speakers.  
Whats playing on your system today?
TIDAL through Bluesound 2i:The Weight  - The Band25 Or 6 To 4 - ChicagoOld Days - ChicagoIn The Air Tonight - Phil Collins 
What are you streaming tonight?
Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants 
Weird problem noticed today...
+1 mofi 
Weird problem noticed today...
Well it's resolved but it's weirder. Just did reset on the Bluesound and it's gone! I can't fathom why. Thanks for all (especially the reset) help.CheersJohn 
10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts
As regards OP. Some valid points there backed up by contentions but not facts unless you can provide peer-reviewed studies/articles that back them up. I do tend to agree with you though.  
10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts
It to hijack the thread but this really wound me up... Dragon52...really? You honestly, deep down, "believe" that scientists, at some level, don't understand how bicycles (and thus unicyles and motorcycles) work? Just from some bs fake new website... 
The peculiarities of a high value, low cost, amp
Very happy with my Emotiva XPA-2 driving inefficient Maggie's and I play loud pretty much all the time (certainly above 85dB and mostly rock). 550w/ch into my 4ohm Maggies. $1000 
Weird problem noticed today...
Ah ok, they're on Tidal nothing in BluOS. Will try that next.  
Weird problem noticed today...
Well...inconclusive. It was definitely worse on the left. So I physically switched the speakers. Now it's mostly on the right but some can still be heard on the left. Its not constant. And, as I said, the Bluesound has boomier, deeper bass than th...