Best Component Ever, for the money


The other thread with this title was corrupted in its inception. Let's do this one with NO cables, power cords, isolation devices or tweaks. My vote goes to the Connoisseur turntable (integrated with arm). I don't have it anymore and you shouldn't be able to find one for sale. High end perspective for $150.
paulwp
Best for the buck in SS pream used under $400.

It a Meridian 565. It has a build in dac same chip
than the Meridian cd 508.20/506.20 CS4329. One analogue
input, it can be use with a sub and it a 5.1 processor!

New it was $3500/4999 and i like to use a pream that
include a dac.It wonderfull in 2ch set up.When i think
to upgrade the Meridian 565 is there to stay...
That's IT Schubert! That's the table and exact cartridge (mine was a 91e, though, no d) I bought my self in 1969. I think it was a little more than $65 by then, but not much. It replaced a Garrard SL55, my first table. My amp was a Fisher X-100c, speakers AR 4x's, their cheapest.
Great minds think alike bdp24 !
At one time I worked for the nations biggest Klipsch dealer who was also a very big B&O dealer when their TT’s were a must have in yuppy-dom .
They were quite expensive for that time and I listened to them all day every
day .
One day I brought my AR in to work and swapped in the place of the top B&O with the big corner Klipschorns. It TOTALLY wiped out the expensive B&O and the other guys working there about wet their pants , The AR really
took the base on the big horns to a whole other plane .
The one thing I would most like to hear is the current big Klipsch with the improved crossovers. Even then it was a hell of a speaker  as rough and ready as it was.