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Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking?

OK we all know what a merry-go-round audio can be. For those of us who are incessant upgraders, what components have you found that either have stopped or seriously curtailed your search for better?

For me its my Audio Tekne Cables and my vintage Classe DR3 amps (25 wpc high current class A design designed by Dave Reisch in the early days of the company). My Green Mountain Audio Continuum 3s would probably fall into this category, but I would probably buy the next statement models that Roy Johnson builds sight unheard.

Kerry
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Poweramps: Antique Sound Labs Explorer 805 DTs, 50-Watt Single-Ended Triodes that sound fabulous driving my...

Speakers: Quad 989s. Full-range, point-source electrostatics that define coherency.

Preamp, 6-channel: Audio Refinenments Pre 5. All analog, no processors. VERY clean and big sounding.

Speaker cable: Audioquest silver-conductor, DBS-type KE-6 and KE-4. Six pairs of 4-nines solid silver in 5 different gages, netting 10-1/2 gage. These used to be a double-biwire set but now they're simply in parallel driving the Quads. Best I've ever heard, but I don't get around much.

Denon DVD-2900 DVD player. Such an improvement over my entry-level Pioneer universal player my jaw dropped.

The power-and preamp have been recapped, and I'm about to do that to my Denon DVD-2900 DVD player.
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