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High Performance Audio - The End?
Electronic Dance Music.  Oh boy. 
High Performance Audio - The End?
If as claimed above contemporary music sounds good and it's the fault of our systems if it doesn't, perhaps we should be listening to it on those giant powered professional monitors they have in studios, because evidently it sounded good (and just... 
Audio Research Sold
It's pretty darn obvious that a couple of things are going on here.Many small, successful, quality audio operations have been snapped up by conglomerates over the years.  A few of them have subsequently gone independent again, often taken over by ... 
Integrated brand choice -- Simaudio, Hegel or Mark Levinson?
With Focals I'd err towards Luxman, Accuphase, Pass, Ayre.The Belles Aria Signature integrated is available nowl; the Virtuoso integrated will still be a little while coming. 
Tubed Preamp recommendations?
No Quicksilver? 
Whats playing on your system today?
Murray Perahia: Schumann, Davidbundlertanze & Fantasiestucke. 
Integrated brand choice -- Simaudio, Hegel or Mark Levinson?
The question remains as to how much of a family resemblance there is between the 340 and the 600i v2, which is more in the OP's price bracket. 
If a speaker stand is mass-loading, how much does it matter what they're made of?
These people make excellent quality stands.https://www.customdesign.co.uk/speaker-stands-acoustic-steel-hifi-isolation-platform-speaker-stand-supports-hifi-stands-hifi-isolation-support-hifi-furniture-hifi-table-hifi-supports-hifi-isolation-stand-... 
Speaker stand makers - Tannoy Turnberry
Local cabinet maker is the best route.  Etsy also has offerings. 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
Sounds like a Buddhist temple in the Himalayas. 
Analog or Digital and why?
How many LPs made today are pure analog from the microphone to the vinyl? 
Feet for my new home-made rack
Depends on what you're trying to achieve.Look at the offerings at Herbie's, Parts Express, and suggestions above.If you already have threaded inserts in the legs, there are several companies that supply different pitches for their cone/spike/foot/... 
A revealing speaker
Where does it fall on the ruthless scale? 
Getting him in my ARC PH3se phono pre
Just google Grado + hum and start sorting through what look like the most useful threads. 
the dB/octave specification of the crossover?
Whoever that designer was, don't buy a speaker from them!