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Can I use 24 gauge speaker cable?
You can do a lot of things with a bunch of thin wire.https://reverb.com/item/14408424-pine-tree-audio-6-foot-rainbow-ribbons-14awg-speaker-cables  
Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them?
Totally agree on B&W, which is what I was going to post about.Owned DM1800’s for a long, long time and thoroughly enjoyed them. Back then, I would have ranked them high in the pantheon of great British speaker makers.More recently, auditioning... 
Speaker stands on spikes or just set-screws? Make a difference?
Herbie's offers a full 60 day money-back guarantee.  All you need to know is the thread size of the holes. 
Can I use 24 gauge speaker cable?
Here you go.  000awg.  As recommended by an Audiogon poster.https://www.amazon.com/TEMCo-WC0295-Welding-Battery-Copper/dp/B00LIB6BS0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=000+awg+welder+cable&qid=1602953332&sr=8-1  
Own many mid-game speakers or a few end-game speakers.
Errr, hype=hyperbole=exaggeration=something that, by definition, you shouldn't believe.  Jus' sayin'. 
Poor Fritz
Forget perfection.Has kenjit ever even praised any actual speaker (or anything else audio) that you can buy? 
Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)?
Audio Sensibility grounding devices.  Didn't hear a whit of difference.https://audiosensibility.com/blog/products-2/grounding-devices-2/  
It’s kind of geeky, but…
Special isolation platforms for the diamond anvils coming Q1 next year.BTW, did you look at the pressure under which the compound becomes a superconductor? 
What’s the best DAC match for the Cambridge Audio CXC original or V2?
If you're in Britain you should look into these.http://sw1xad.co.uk/products/  
Rare magnetism found in the world's strongest material
I couldn't find the emoji for tongue-in-cheek... 
...take 1 CD LP or 1 digital music recording to test a new audiophile friend's system...
Years ago I made a CD-R of a variety of selected tracks from different recordings, each of which highlighted a particular aspect that I was interested to hear.  Much easier than carting around a stack of CDs from store to store and feeding disks i... 
What’s the best DAC match for the Cambridge Audio CXC original or V2?
If you really want to smooth things out, get a Border Patrol. 
Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)?
This is and will continue to be a great thread if people stick to tweaks they’ve actually had in their own system and then removed again, because of no or even deleterious effects.I tried those clamp-on carbon ferrite filters/blocks and could hear... 
Who's using Harbeth with tubes, what speaker model and how many watts per channel?
I use SS but someone else on the forum who hasn't chipped in yet uses Linear Tube Audio Zotl40's in monoblock configuration on 40.2A's. 
Rare magnetism found in the world's strongest material
New material found for ICs.https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-first-room-temperature-superconductor-discovery