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Beware of PayPal
Paypal did not accept my bank information when I've tried to become "verified" and at the same time when I wanted to get cash the only way I could do is to get a physical printed check for which I had to pay extra $1.50 
What spkr cable should i consider???
Visit any near-by Sam-Ash music store or any store that retails musical instruments and buy the speaker 10AWG cable for as low as $20 for all the length you need. Cheep price and great performance. Believe it or not, but I am going to sell my JPS ... 
Tell me if i got it wrong..
Chuck, this mostly have nothing to do with tubes or SS rather than in type of amplifier's operation (Class B amps as an example or push-pull, eliminates even harmonic distortion components).Harmonic distortions aren't realy important if the're low... 
Grado Platinum: which is better high or lo output?
Grado Platinum isn't the end of the world; if you go for Benz-Micro Glider .8mv output version you will be OK with built-in MC-phonos. Ordering it from Hong Kong will keep your budget the same as with Grado Platinum. Very rock-friendly Dynavector ... 
Pass X-150 or Cary V-12?
My dream is BAT VK60 or pair of those in mono configuration rather than going for new V12s 1. It is sencitive 1.2V 2. It is OK with passive preamp(I'm the passive guy too!)3. Used one on the market is $2000 so if you want to spend $4000 than buy a... 
Would You Pay to Listen?
...in the place where only you and no girlfriend or wife? 
Tell me if i got it wrong..
Wrong, The digital signal circuitry can be done with tubes too, but very ineficient since they aren't fast enough on higher freequencies.Transistors as well as tubes can produce digital and analogue signals as well(in fact there is no such thing a... 
Pass X-150 or Cary V-12?
...less-likely Placette will be OK with Cary V12 since it has low gain and low sencitivity. I'm sure that Pass X-150 has enough gain but I'm not sure how low/high is the input impedance (20kOhm? which I'm not sure). If it's bellow 47kOhms than vol... 
Girlfriend's mom threw my Cardas out with trash
...once my friend's mother-in-law saw his Pass Aleph 6 and said that she's never seen such a beautiful heater! 
Speakers for creek 4330
I would suggest you to get Triangle Zephyr $800 new floor-standers 3'H,3/4'W,1'D 91dB efficient and good for another amplifier upgrade 
Grado Platinum: which is better high or lo output?
Theoretically, the shorter signal path the better is the signal. In lo-output cartridge the length of coil is smaller than in hi-output.The only question is how low you can go with your phono i.e. Platinum lo-output version has output of .5mV whic... 
What have you been listening to these five weeks?
I did not discriminate any specific music for that tragic event, but not to be extreme I ran on my TT the day after Musorgski "Shakherezade" and some of Bethoven symphonies Pastoral and Ode to Joy. Music as any kind of entertainment has to be a pa... 
Music for "Tough Times"
Almost any King Crimson album will pull me out of lousiness especially "Islands" 
Girlfriend's mom threw my Cardas out with trash
If it's not too late, bring the trash bucket back to dig out unpacked Cardas.The same thing happend with me when I couldn't find a tooth crown that had been placed in the decorative ash-tray (I keep a few decorative ash-trays for suvenier purpouse... 
Speaker Cables, One side longer- bad idea?
A++ link, Bwhite! Thanks!I also want to point everyone's attention onto damping factor explaination on the link provided by Bwhite and make your conclusion about different cable lengths.And than read link about Equal length of the speaker cables. ...