02-02-2013, 08:23 AM
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World's Oldest Audiophile
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Tennessee, U.S.A.
Posts: 8,536
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Funny that we are so hardened by the lunatic inspried pricing in our hobby that we would consider a pair of $10,000 speakers to be "real bargains". No wonder that the "Bose Crowd" thinks us to be such nuts. (Noticed that when I found this post in "new posts" this morning, it appeared consecutive to another post extolling the beauty of a new pair of $300,000 Avalon speakers)
I can hear it now from some of our higher echelon high-end-ophile (and filthy rich) members "Heck I've got wires that cost that much!!!!"
Isn't is wonderful that you can get such great sound from such "cheap" speakers!
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I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good.
MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices.
DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .
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