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Ron

I have not even unpacked it yet. In fact I won't be able to check it 'till I buy a 1) pre-amp, and 2) a table to situate it on.

If I were so foolish as to try to perch it on top of my current stereo cabinet, it would certainly come down crushing everything in its way

As for the gold bar and it's being so doggone expensive.....even if you price it as you were scrap metal by a pound, there would be a few hundred bucks right there. It took two of us to lower it in the box, I barely took it out of my car when having come back, being afraid every moment my back would give up, and then used my trolley I bought last winter to lower it to my basement. And after having done the same to 38-690, gotta tell ya, that was a walk in the park compared to the Mac. When lowering it down the stairs I thought it would un-socket my shoulders or elbows, or both.

If anyone could recommend a good table for a stereo setup......

Oh...and the bar....it is probably made of uranium or plutonium, not gold, that would explain the weight. Or......maybe it is made of Lord Nibbler feces (you know who Lord Nibbler is, right?)
I wonder what I will do with that bar if it is plutonium: as you know, today Russia stopped processing it for us, so I would have to bury it in my own backyard. Well...maybe that will kill the moskitos