Just to update, I found a BX-300 from CassetteDecksDepot, and they did a great job for me. Great deck, in fine condition.

My TAD ME-1 speakers are rated at 85 and run at 4 ohms. I sit about 6 ft  away from the speakers in a 15x 11 room and never run the volume of my Zen triode amp past 1 o’clock. Listen to music at 80db no problem. Also have lil song open baffles and run amp at about 3 o’clock. Can’t see what I’m missing with the less efficent speakers which most reviewers warn against.

Think I figured it out.  Didn't disconnect the speaker cables.  So the audio signal evidently took the path of least resistance to the speakers since I was using 300 ohm Sennheisers HD600s for the test.

Okay. Understnadable, kindof unfortunate really for users.

Wow, that’s pretty amazing. Wondering if there is any parallel to any other boutique shop that has this level of AI sophistication.

Yes, I use Replit.  If I didn't do that, it would take me probably a year or more to get code to this level.  Interestingly, while it's way faster than a human, I would say 100 times, as a programmer the realization is that you can make it 100 times better rather than the same quality in 1/100th the time.  So here we go, I really stepped in it this time.  Writing an AI was rather ambitious, but I'm in it to win it so no turning back now.  

I am presently at 47,000 lines of code, and have 88 hours sitting here testing and improving it.  You can imagine how long that would be without AI.

Unlike the first one, which was a service, that had to have a separate avatar for every product, and could only troubleshoot that specific product, this one does all the products at the same time so she can not only troubleshoot, but go back and forth between products and answer technical questions, sales questions, and even general audio questions related to Decware.  

So far I have about 90% of our tube gear training done.  I will likely also do speakers and accessories.  She has watched all 50 of my YouTube teaching videos and will if pertinent show you one, as well she can summarize it, explain any of the various parts in it and even expand on it if you want.

She is also wired in deep enough that any updates or changes I make to manuals will automatically update the knowledge base which is tested nightly.  

The music forum has been excluded from the list because it is picture intensive.

It's possibly being removed by design from the Recent Posts listing, that's what makes sense to me. I can see why in a way, there's a number of listening posts that push down more equipment related posts. We'll see if Steve or another will give us a post about this.

The post I just made in the Classical thread doesn't show either. Is the Music forum being ignored?