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Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage?
Do it in the house as you would normally listen so the buyer knows what he’s getting.   But, have someone(s) else there with you in case things go sour.  
Focals latest - Cat Houses?
I've heard them at The Show and didn't care for them.   
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
Nice. Just purchased Mother Lode and will probably get Haken and Echolyn.  
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
As I noted L&M blur the lines. Mellotron????  We don’t need no stinkin’ mellotron when we got real strings.  A song can be progressive and country at the same time. https://youtu.be/ccYE-33ddkU Mellotron?  Certainly synthesizer and orchestr... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Yes, Asia, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd (sorta), Moody Blues, etc. https://youtu.be/IaLqQo2r-3k https://youtu.be/yUpREizsftU When you get to Eagles, Loggins and Messina, Chris Cross, Michael McDo... 
Are you hearing  the instruments or the music?
@richardbrand I don’t go to orchestral concerts and listen to very little classical music. But it was nice having them accompany the Beatles on Let It Be and Magical Mystery Tour just a bit ago.  And the placement of many of those instruments is... 
Attention Horn Owners
I have a one-off pair of Altec Super Big Reds (604E2s) in furniture cabinets (oak) that are tri-amped with a one-off electronic crossover and one-off passive eq units to go between the amp and the horn drivers. I drive them with vintage Marantz e... 
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
Bring back Progressive Rock!  I don’t think there is anything like Gentle Giant anymore.  Gotta be one of my all time favorites. https://youtu.be/ifRnVEkqB2I  
Are you hearing  the instruments or the music?
I want to hear the instruments making the music each in it's own space as if they were playing in front of me.  
My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours?
My favorite tweak is applied to ALL systems that I listen to, no matter where I am.  It is removing my glasses. Eye glasses set up a diffraction pattern about your head and removing them takes this away.  I can’t believe how many times I go into ... 
Concentration
If my wife’s healthcare worker is here, I may hear music on her phone in the background (classic easy rock). If I am sitting at my computer, I may be listening to someone’s system or a YT video over the nearfield monitors.  But I pay attention to... 
The cool factor- who has it?
Early ELVIS!  
Sharing some audio recordings from my listening session this past weekend
Some of the Talking Heads cuts have really uncanny soundstage and imaging, even if one doesn't care for the group or their music.  
I'm Just Not Hearing It..., Do You???
I have this one. https://youtu.be/dbPy7hxvj9Q   BTW, I do believe that it was The Ocean that I remember the pedal squeak on.  And even now, I can still hear the pedal mechanism. https://youtu.be/oqAmnEKlIZw  
I'm Just Not Hearing It..., Do You???
The idea is that a second set of ears didn’t hear it either and she is a bit more than half my age (40s maybe).  But she is here several times a week and when we listened to the YT version, we both heard the very low noises toward the beginning an...