I ended up buying the Pangea stand from Audio Advisor and it’s been fine. As I’m trying to resurrect my vinyl (with great difficulty), I’d need a different stand with a wider top and the ability to hold the 70 lb turntable. I saw this at the Odyssey website   

http://odysseyaudio.com/Odyssey-furniture.pdf

It’s interesting, but more than I’d like to spend. I’ve searched IKEA online looking for an mdf stand, but couldn’t find anything. More suggestions would be welcome.
Nick

  Some of us buy to improve, some to play with new stuff, some are confused, some just go sideways and some KNOW what to buy. For me it is both quality of sound and getting new stuff.
  After the basics of clean power, decent room and speaker location the front end to me is the most important then the speaker. The preamp which I believe is the heart of the system needs to matched to the power amp. The power amp needs to be matched to the speakers. We do not want Maggies and 4W SET amp.
 What I have found is that improvement with cost with cost however not always bang for buck. Yes our Lamm Ref Preamp is better than all that have come before it but is it worth 24K ? For me yes to other maybe not. When it is removed I feel a loss in tonality and harmonics. Could I live with a Nobsound passive ? Yes but not happily after hearing the Lamm. The Audio Hungary APR 204 is an over achiever in preamps and cost 2K. It is close to the Lamm however far enough away to justify the price difference.
  We make trade offs for numerous reasons. Cost is a major factor like everything else on the planet. My best systems were Maggies, Audio Research DR250 amp, Linn TT, CAT preamp. Pipedreams, Arion class"D" hybrid mono blocks, Loesch & Weisner Preamp, Kuzma TT Lector CDP. Then Mirage M-3 Classe DR25 Amp, CAT preamp, Fritz Carrea SE , Audio Hungary A20i integrated, Aqua Formula DAC and Transport, Innuos Zenith Server. The latest and greatest Rethm Saadhana, Audio Hungary SE15 SET mono blocks, Lamm Ref preamp, Aqua Formula xHD DAC, Aqua transport, Zenith mk3 server. ALL the digital has been updated to latest updates.
  Yes lots of change over the years which all started with Sansui integrated, B&O TT, Heco Horn speakers and zip cord. Oh my !

charles

Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore



Telarc CD

Bob James/Earl Klugh: Cool



Warner Bros CD

Rod Stewart: It Had to Be You....The Great American Songbook



J Records CD

Do you think Rod had the slightest idea when he did this album that it would launch a pretty much second career of doing cover songs? Over the following 8 years he would record not only 4 more albums of music from the American songbook, but cover albums of classic rock and vintage Souls songs as well.