If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question

With $1,000,000 I'd dream up and purchase the best components $100k could buy and spend another $50k on software. Obviously this would mean the "budget" SOTA gear for me. Then I would build a modest home around a state of the art dedicated audio only room. If there is anything left for a BMW M3 or the bank account that's the cherry on top.

I once read about someone's impression of the best system ever put together.It was put together by a guy in Queens,LIC,NY years ago.

With changing techs along with room dimensions and everything else involved I think it would be a never ending challenge.Then there is the differemt formats and HT considerations to consider. Wish I had the checkbook George Lucas Has and the land to build it on.

Good luck Mr.Yates I bet your system will be amongst the best ever assembled.

Giant OTL's and large electrostats in a dedicated room connect via AC cleaned power, phase corrected, and with it's own switching terminal. That and carbon fiber, ceramic driver speakers to switch between. Oh yeah - and half a dozen different tonearms to try out on the turntable. Again the ability to swap between carbon and ceramic and titanium arms on the fly, along with enough cartridges to make life interesting. I wonder what a room with ebony room shaping sounds like, to go with that Koetsu? Or maybe I should get several removable walls to match the cartridge or play against it - made of Jade, Plastic, Rosewood... A daylight only room, no interference from light sources allowed, and it would have to be in Antarctica during the summer so I could have 18 hours to play records and I would still have no sound seepage. Did I mention the floor should be direct poured and suspended? I have heard this story that Pink Floyd bought a boat and has it on the Thames so they could build on a suspended stage to play - used every tweak - tube dampers, connection dampers, suspension racks, silver wire, and power from lightning bolts thrown from Mount Olympus - serious phase alignment, totally clean, etc. Someone said they had seen pictures and it looked amazing. Engineers have commented on it's sound or lack there of...

For "cost is no object system" the choices are easy. 1) Walker Procenium Turntable 2) ZYX Universe cartridge 3) Shroeder #1 tonearm 3) Boulder 2008 phonopreamplifier 4)Boulder line stage 4)WAVAC top of line power amps 5) Wilson Top of lineline speaker COST: $500,000

Kharma Grand Enigma loudspeakers with the requisite subterranean listen room (cavern?). http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&974265178&openusid&zzTacs&4&5. Dealers and manufacturers would then be flown in to allow me to properly audition source equipment and linestage amplification (if required). A harem of 25 beautiful women would be used to change vinyl (which would be thrown out after no more than 3 plays). I would then outbid everyone on eBay to fund my over-indugent vinyl consumption. I'd lao buy rare NOS tubes and smash them with hammers to satisfy my morbid amusement.

*poof* then I'd wake up and do the following:

*Another EVS Millennium DAC for my bedroom headphone system, and another for my den (where I do my college homework - yes I am back in school again).
*Dedicated lines for my bedroom and den stereos.
*200amp service for my 1300sq ft house (why not?), with my own dedicated transformer at the utility pole. Cryo'ed wire from the utility pole, and all throughout the power distrubution to my system
*a truckload of Mapleshade heavyfoot cone footers for everything
*Walker Extreme SST treatment
*Mapleshade ionclast
*Mikrosmooth
*custom shelving build by an accomplished cabinet maker to house the following: books, vinyl, laserdiscs, DVDs, VHS, audiocassettes, CDs, SACDs.
*some nice listening room art. (a must!)
*Keg'erator with Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold on tap. Pop vending machine for my wife. (she's always wanted one of those)
*two turntables, a Teres and a Michell GryoSE for the main system, couple Schrõder tonearms, a Expressimo RB250, couple dynavector carts, a ZYX cart, and a Hagtech Trumpet phono. I can't just have one TT!!
*new projector screen
*new couch/futon
*Pioneer Elite CLD-95 laserdisc player
*rebuild fees for my Maggies.
*active XO rebuild for the maggies.
*two more pairs of quicksilver silver mono amps (to actively biamp my mains, and the other pair for the rears [ passive XO])
*multichannel linestage for SACD and DVD-V, but one that will fold 5.1 back down into 4.0.
*level 1 Rives consultation to help with the set up.
*some more Straight Wire interconnects. (most synergetic match thus far!)

Oh yeah, and an iRiver portable music player for my wife.

Aaron