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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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sogood51
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Shimmery highs, mid-range to die for...devastatingly good bass, only a cd player upgrade and Behringer DCX-2496 in my future.

Dave
kublakhan
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ditto, boa2
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jeffreybehr
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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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thefalls1117
74 posts
 
I was very fortunate, while in my hunt for a affordable amp,
I heard and eventually picked up an Sar Lab Mos 400 amp.
I have now built my system around it....no regrets.

I took alot of flak from audiophile friends because this amp isn't a "big named product" but hearing is believing...
upstateaudio
249 posts
 
Preamp- ClasseDR6
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