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Focal Kanta NO.3 Speakers Spending More Doesn't Matter !
Wow!I thought you found your be-all, end-all speaker last week.And now this.Whatever next? 
TANNOY will stop Hi-FI ?
@yogiboy  Not so!  As @brianh61 correctly points out, the SP models within the F500 range are hand built in Scotland. 
Class D amps that are superior to all or most?
@mapman   No love for these?https://orchardaudio.com/shop/ols/products/bsc-mplfr  
Class D amps that are superior to all or most?
There's also a 2-channel version.https://destinationhifi.com/products/legacy-audio-i-v2-stereo-amplifier?variant=31916144525452 Coda used to make Legacy's amps; I wonder who's making these. 
Biggest audio hoaxes
Anything with quantum, fractal, or hysteresis in its name. 
TANNOY will stop Hi-FI ?
At least Fyne is based and manufacturing in Scotland.  They're a little east of Glasgow.  Also, there's a Loch Fyne west of Glasgow.  This may be the source of the name they chose. 
Biggest audio hoaxes
Tice clock. 
Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ?
When you stack speakers vertically, shouldn't the upper speaker be inverted?  Like this.https://www.stereophile.com/content/toronto-audiofest-day-1  
What do $2500 speaker cables sound like?
Halve your budget, buy some Silversmith Fidelium SCs, and find out. 
Love to hear from current owners or past users of Isoacoustics Gaia footers.
And are they better between the speaker and the stand or between the stand and the floor? 
A non-subjective recommendation for the Puritan PSM156
+1.  Exactly.  This is what I posted before."I've had a number of brands of power conditioner in the house over the years, but this one is something special. Inserting it cold into a cold system, the improvement was perceptible within the first b... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Here’s a recording I hadn’t listened to in ages. Beethoven’s late string quartets 131 and 135 done by Bernstein with the massed strings of the Vienna Phil. Achingly beautiful.Also: is the slow movement of 135 really a significant foreshadowing of ... 
Biggest audio hoaxes
Check this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoaxBy this definition, inexpensive "Cardas" cables from China would be hoaxes. 
Biggest audio hoaxes
I don't think you're going to get the temperate responses you were hoping for.  Still, one can always hope... 
The speaker/amplification wars continue
Stream of consciousness belongs in modernist novels (Joyce, Faulkner, etc.) not in audio discussion posts.