A life sentence!!!


If you were forced to keep one component in your current audio system for the rest of your life, which one would it be?  For me, it would be my beloved Revel Salon 2 loudspeakers.  Happy listening.

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That would by my 35 yr old Xstatic EC/X full range electrostatic speakers built by Jason Daniels with Brazilian Cherry & Italian Marble frames by Jim Gittings. I keep trying them against other speakers and I’ve never found anything else I like nearly as well. I’ve rebuilt the stators twice and these still sound like nothing else I’ve heard at a reasonable price point.   They are beautiful to look at and my wife loves them as well!

My Technics EPC 100 MK4 moving magnet cartridge with bandwidth that gives any moving coil a run for the money and has enough output it can work into a moving magnet phono stage. I can only guess what it would be like if 40 years of improved knowledge and materials were applied to it.

Beyond that while I really enjoy my system if I won the lottery big it would all change.

Easy. It would be the operator (me).  I'm the only component that cannot be replaced without the entire system collapsing!

All kidding aside, in 40 years I've replaced every component many times over.  There hasn't been one I regret selling as I've always enjoyed newer and (usually) better components, and a few vintage ones.

For me, the journey and enjoyment of a wide variety of components has been central to my love of high quality audio. Fun question though. It instigated quite the trip down memory road!

 

@tlcocks Yup. I did forget to mention that MQ 112 !!! Ty.  And I do still love it. Only wish it had a remote. I hate getting out of my listening chair if I need to adjust the sound.