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    GAIA feet for S5mkii? Diameter?

    So many people I know like the GAIA feet that I'm going to try them on my S5mkii's. Any reports here? Which ones did you purchase? And does anyone know the right diameter to get them? (It looks like M12 (12mm) is it but I want to be sure). GAIA I's are suited for up to 100kg and that's...
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    Small but mighty? Nagra, Aavik, others?

    Every 6 months or so I start to ponder moving from the many many cubic feet Naim 500-level system I have (2 racks, 8 black boxes) to something 'downsized'. Why? To own a system that dominates the room a little less, and to some extent just to 'try something different.' I'd like to keep our...
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    Where do you store your crates?

    The wooden crates . . . I really don't want to use up that much of my finished basement, and if kept in the garage the humidity in the summer will be too high and they are likely to mildew. Cart them off to a self-storage facility and pay the monthly tariff??
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    A5 vs M2

    If those of you who've heard both will indulge me . . . although our new "great room" is big (30' x 18' with 9 1/2' ceilings), we've now cut the room with a couch and I realize we'll do a fair bit of near-field listening as well as listing from the far end of the room where the kitchen area is...
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    How hard are M2's to drive?

    There's an opportunity for a used pair of M2's and I'm actively shopping for new, 'bigger' speakers. We've loved the A3's but have moved to a bigger home/bigger room and want just a bit more. (New room is 30' x 18' combined kitchen/family room "great room" with the speakers firing the long way...
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    Heard the Avalon PM3's today

    I had an appointment with Alan Goodwin to hear Magico A5's and some Rockports. But he'd had a customer in the day before to hear the PM3's and had left them for me to hear too. I was pretty blown away by them. I'd never heard any Avalons in the past. I could rattle off a list of things that...
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    Speaker cables for long (30 feet) in-wall run?

    We're building a home and both my wife and our builder are requiring a change to how the hi fi will be situated in the big combined kitchen/family room (great room) setup. Right now I have 2 racks of Naim Fraim in our living room and the goal is to do a built-in cabinet for components and to...
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    Ideas re putting rack inside a "closet?"

    We’re having a new home built. Both my wife and the builder want the hi fi boxes inside of a ‘closet’ that he’s happy to custom build. In our current room, 2 racks, 4-levels each (Naim Fraim) are off to the side next to one of the speakers. Personally, I would be happy to recover the floor...

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