absolute best component you ever owned

My speakers are Coincident Digital Master w/Troubass subwoofers. A model no longer manufactured by the company. Analogous to Wilson Watt/Puppies or Verity speakers. Sort of pyramidal satellites, which use the subs as stands. Done up all in black, they remind me of Darth Vader. Tall, elegant, powerful. The shape was a bear to produce. Now they make old fashioned rectangular boxes. Smooth, liquid, deep, and detailed. A product that falls on the VERY short list of products that will stand the test of time. One day I will upgrade them with world class internals(instead of just very good). But, it will be a LONG time before they come out of my system.

This made me think about about several outstanding componets I've owned. Maybe, my response is going away from the main theme, but I've got to give this award to my VPI 17F record cleaning machine. Ten years, >6000 records and it is still delivering great sound improvements.

My Electrovoice Sentry II studio monitors. Sadly rotated out of service because they were Too Big. Other speakers reproduce her voice very impressively, but you gotta understand, the singer is really inside these speakers--singing through the grille fabric--that's really her behind that curtain! Agh, words fail me.

sound lab speakers

Tube Research Labs amps/pre-amps.