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Made in USA
From Ebay, I do see you can buy Cardas cables for under 50 dollars from China. And McIntosh cables, too.  
Made in USA
sorry, that is why I mentioned the phonograph in there  
Made in USA
No major commentary here. Just want to note that have visited Edison vacation home in Sarasota, FL. Interesting about Ford because I recall they were good friends and would vacation together. Edison was a serious researcher and did have a large la... 
Made in USA
I believe my Pack (sucking this last year) is employee-owned. Just small stake for investors, though.  
Made in USA
Just reading up, but think is covered already. The 46k is for individual income. True, households with both working would be halved. As one person noted, often mean (arithmetic average) and median are close.  Just that mean, the average, is impact... 
Made in USA
Agree. That may be true about the median to the 'average guy', but the average can be skewed by large or small incomes. The median is just the halfway point.  
Made in USA
Sorry, just looked. 80k is 75 percentile. 132k is 90 percentile.  
Inter Connects - What I know and don't know
Also want to add that the OCC I believe is the Ohno continuous casting. This was a major advance by Japanese researcher Ohno with continuous casting in one crystal. Thus, there are not variable size crystal grains and grain boundaries to deal with... 
Inter Connects - What I know and don't know
Twisting cables is for blocking outside noise impacts from other nearby sources of magnetism (EM? too). Standard technique, so not sure why simplest twist would give more noise. See Twisted Pairs: Why are Wires Twisted? – Audio University (audioun... 
I want more bass…
Still think need more powerful amp. However, 98 dB speakers are easy to drive. My speakers are like upper 80's or low 90's. Can understand why you have 120W/ch amp. So maybe 200W/ch amp max would do it. Sure, subs will solve the problem; no questi... 
Inter Connects - What I know and don't know
Not much can add here. Usually hear lot of negative comments about cost of cables. But reading lot of good comments about different types of cables. Yes, usually get better as pay more, but clearly there are deals. Kimber Hero is on my home theate... 
I want more bass…
Solid disagreement with most comments here. It's the amps. Did not read this closely at first. You have 2 12-inch woofers in each speaker. You need power and a lot. Pass amp seems well low. Better with the AudioResearch and the Luxman, but stilll ... 
Looking for Blues with High Fidelity
Lot of great lists here, will have to look carefully myself. Echo ridiculously cheap hybrid sacds from acoustic sounds which I did grab. Have not listened yet to check sound quality, but good songs on them. Guessing they overbought, but can che... 
So done with audiophile fuses
Have to agree with goose on this.  First tried HiFi Tuning Gold on preamp, monoblocks, speakers mid, highs and cd player. Largest impact on Carver monoblocks where general complaint online is no highs and now heard highs. Speakers like wiping wind... 
Schumann Resonator
Never respond on these forums, but do use lot of tweaks.Near-live main system, will keep up with Raidho 35K speakers when testing same cd at Axpona (at least on clean cds),Projector based home theater system, good to very good, but not greatfigure...