Which components are "stupid good"?


Which components, known to be outstanding in their category, have a performance to price differential such that they can truly be called "stupid good?"
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I heard a pair of big buck Focal Grand Utopias recently.

Very good. Very expensive. Very BIG!

Came home and listened to my OHM 5 series 3 that cost me less than 1/5th what the GUs would cost.

Stupid good! At least in comparison in my room. I suspect the comparison could hold in most people's home listening rooms as well.

Maybe also the TAD 125 Hibachi mono blocks. Haven't really challenged these hard enough yet though to say. They are stupid good though I think for the task of getting a very involving sound out of my Stax sr-80 headphones. Also similarly very good with small, more efficient and otherwise tube friendly Triangle Titus monitors. They might be stupid good in comparison to some alternate considerably more expensive higher powered tube amps, against which these mostly SS amps are designed to compete.

Definitely the Squeezebox Touch. Probably also the Denon DL103R phono cart.
I lot of stuff is "stupid good" when set up properly in properly set up and well matched system.

The exact same stuff may sound "stupid bad" otherwise.
mhdt Constantine DAC.

I'm not sure what more one could expect from a DAC than this delivers, short of jumping perhaps into the big buck DCS gear.