Moderately priced audio


So I have been a audiophile for 40 years and in that time I have seen and owned a huge amount of equipment. Lately I have been reading Sterephile magazine and attended the last 2 years of Axpona. My question is what about the people that love the craft and get tremendous joy out of their audio systems that are in the $2-5K price range. Are they to be ignored? I know this hobby holds a lot of enthusiasm by people that have great sounding systems of new and vintage gear that they are proud of and enjoy listening to. While I appreciate the sound and the technology of the systems that cost more than a house I think there is a slice of enthusiast that are silent. Back in the 70s I worked at a stereo store that your average person came in and spent $600-$1000 and got a good sounding system. And we sold a lot of them. Seems a lot less interest today. Could it be the price of what you see in magazines and shows? I am curious to see if you people are out there that love the music and get great joy out of listening to your moderately priced audio equipment. Feel free to share what you have. I know you are out there. 
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Today there are a ton of fantastic products and systems that are very affordable and excellent sounding.

We recently discovered one of the best and most featured electronics pairings ever:

NAD C 658 integrated preamp/dac/streamer $1,500.00
Nuprime STA 9 amplifier 120 watts stereo 290 watt mono $ 700.00 each

The NAD C658 has Blue OS built in so it is an excellent streamer and a great app comes with it, the C 658 also has Dirac room correcton built in, which can really help make a bad room sound way better.

The Nuprime STA 9 is a hybrid Class A/D amplifier with a deliberatly tubey sound, Nuprime used FET’s in the front end and the little amp is both punchy with great dynamics and bass but also has a rich engaging sound.

Also with true separates the consumer can upgrade by adding a second Nuprime amp and bridging to mono which sounds even better for an additional $700.00

Upgrade to an even better preamp and use the C 658 as a Dac/streamer

Upgrade to an even better Dac and use the C 658 as just a streamer.

Upgrade by moving to an even more exotic and expensive amplifier

so with this modular approach a person can continue to build as their budget and knowledge increase.

For loudspeakrs the New Dali Oberons are wonderful at $1,500.00 a pair

Other speakers we would recommend the Quad S4 at $1,800.00 pair with an amazing ribbon tweeter.

So other than cabling you can get a system for
$2,200.00 electronics
$1,500.00 speakers

$3,700.00

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ