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You've Won the Lottery: Your Dream System, Now.

For this exercise, you don't HAVE to spend lots of money....but imagine if price were absolutely no object....

...and you weren't trying to show off, impress your neighbors, be loyal to your dealer, blow lots of cash needlessly or experiment with the latest Editors Choice or Class A recommendations.....

but rather, using everything you have ever learned in this hobby and in this forum, were honestly, genuinely, simply and sincerely trying to achieve the most "high end", 2 channel, musical nirvana ever in the history of audio..

..where you could buy new or used, as you wish....

With no constraints to the budget, of course you can have a perfectly restored Levinson HQD, Infinity IRS or Quad/Entec system.....the giant Apogees...or the latest mega Wilson's or any other well marketed, latest top of line speakers, however overpriced they might be....

Brand new or classic Audio Research reference....LAMM....Pass Labs...analogue, digital, WHATEVER YOU WANT under the sun.....

Rives tuned room, Shakti stones, exotic power conditioning devices.....just say the word and it can all be yours right now.

Here are the only rules:

ONE source
ONE system re pre amp and amps (bi or triamping optional)
ONE set of speakers
Cables exactly as you wish
As many tweaks as you like
All CDs and/or records FREE

Tell us your design for the perfect system, the last audio system you would ever need to build to live a long, happy, musically enriched life....the system you would never need to change or upgrade and the system which would enable you to die happily.

Good luck. Have fun.

Cheers,

cwlondon
cwlondon
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
F the system, I sure would have a nice one but being money is of no object I would be seeing too many live shows to fuss over the system much!
But if I had to do it all I probably would find myself with great reliable products from established companys in a super well built and tuned room, Dartzeel, Walker, Aesthetix, Esoteric......and maybe soon to be Vandersteen model 7 comes to mind.
cyclonicman
693 posts
 
I would have to audition all the products that I have dreamed of owning and it seems like there is a new and better one every month after looking at the new Stereophile, Absolute Sound etc. However, it would be a pleasure to make myself crazy by indulging myself in such a manner. Of course, my search could not begin until I had my perfect listening room built inside my huge mansion on my 20 acre country estate.
jafant
18,825 posts
 
Second, I would have the means to audition all of the equipment that catches my interest!
ptmconsulting
1,000 posts
 
I think it would be nice to audition any piece of equipment you could want to, but ultimately I think I would want to get to a place where I didn't want to change out anything. Isn't that bliss, rather than changing out equiipment all the time?

Enjoy,
Bob
blindjim
3,092 posts
 
After re-thinking all this, and sticking to the thread's thrust implicitly, I'd go with the gbuilding of a dedicated room inclusive of acoustic treatments, and then travel and audition gear until I found the one system that kept my jaw on the floor the most.

tubes or SS... dynamic cone or panels... SET or lots o' watts... I don't feel it would matter much to me at that point, as one could attain something quite outstanding without regard to design topology or methodology. But most certainly a digital source, and very likely server oriented.

never having heard the mega dollar gear, like Tennor, Cord, SF Strats, Wilson's Max, etc., only by traveling would I find the answers.... and I've not been to Europe for such a long time it would be great fun I'm sure, this go 'round. I'd probably wind up buying stuff from right here in the U.S.A. anyhow. Maybe.
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