An Urgent Hypothetical!


Lets just pretend, unless you really do of course, you have the speakers and components below. You are only allowed to come up with 3 stereos and anything not used must be trashed (he has an irrational country loving gf that probably....well...) ! All 3 stereos would be in similar rooms that are 30 x 20 ft with 15 foot ceilings. All 3 stereos need a digital streaming/server setup and 2 will have analogue lines. To make this decision tougher all hifi retailers, distributers and even your own friends won't sell you as much as a 1990s Sony Walkman.

Also, this hypothetical audio mega nerd doesn’t care which app he uses to stream or if he has to use multiple. He didn’t care about how audio equipment looked till he tried some totem speakers....The server aspect is of great importance to this long winded character. He does not watch television and considers "home theater " profane in his household. He also appreciates anyone who plays along...and appreciates any insight people provide on potential lines.

Speakers
- Monitor PL200s
- Paradigm 7Fs
- Vienna Acoustics’ "The Music"
- Magico A1
- Revel 326bes
- Klipsch Cornwalls IVs
- Spendor 9.2
- Magico A3
- Heresy IVs
- Paradigm Persona Bs
- Focal Kanta No 3s
- Marten Duke Stand mounts
- Marten Heritage Getz 5s
- Focal Sopra No 1s
- Wilson Audio Duvettes
- Harbeth 30.1
- Magico s5 MK II that come with custom furious girlfriend

Standalone DACs
- Chord TT2
- Chord Hugo 2
- Matrix Sabre MQA thing
- Holo Audio May DAC Level 2
- Topping ML 400 or something like that
- Gustard x26 Pro (hypothetically way underrated in my opinion)
- Berkeley Alpha DAC Series 2

DACs/Streamers
- Matrix M Streamer
- Hegel HD30
- Aurrender A-10
- Aurrender NCS100 x 2
- Naim All in One thing
- Lumin T2
- Lumin X1 (Straight up badass in my opinion)
- Mytek Manhattan 2
- Aurrender A200


Pre Amplifiers
- McIntosh C49
- Primare Pre 35
- Pathos InControl MK2
- Holo Audio Serene
- Prima Luna EVO 400
- Zesto Leto
- Manley neo 300B

Integrated/Power Amps
- Pathos Classic
- Pathos Logos
- Manley Snapper Monos
- Zesto Bia 120
- Prima Luna EVO 400 Power
- First Watt J8
- First Watt F8
- Pass Labs....um the 150 W per channel class AB one
- Decware Triode x 2
- Bryston 4B3 x 2
- Pass Labs....super heavy 350 watt stereo one

TTs and Phono Stages
- Project Extension 10 (pearwood cart)
- Rega Planar 6 (aria cart)
- Rega Planar 8 (some cart...6 is better anyways)
- EAT Forte with really expensive cart he wont mention in public forums

- Sutherland 20/20
- Pathos in the Groove
- Manley Chicook
- EAT Glo tube
- Zesto Deluxe Phono
- Sutherland Loco




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I would sell all of that and buy what I like, because I live in reality.  You do dose pose an interesting set of mind experiments that have no meaning, because no one knows what everything there sound  like, much less the interactions.  I prefer to create my meaningless thought experiments around the hypothetical constructs of dark matter and quarks:  That is some really worthless thought for almost all of us, but you have possible set a new standard... that is a good thing.
@dbefus85

Single ended triodes. 

You did get a couple of nice DACs and Streamers, so it wasn’t a complete miss. 😂🤣
I’d be fishing … cannot build a system I would bother listening to from your list. 
@secretguy what wasted time are you referring to?  the time purchasing the gear or typing out the post?
@secretguy ....We all have secret 'must time' to waste. 

Some are more must than others....some truly are wasted.

Sometimes the 2 intersect;  what you do in that interval may be more important than what you might normally be doing.... ;)

https://www.theonion.com/everything-taking-too-long-1819570632?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&...
@jwillo 

I enjoyed your accurate comment as it's my brand of comedy =)...

I doubt I've ever been described as normal. But I take a little pride in trying to think differently and act in a different way than the "norm."
@chorus It certainly was a late night post...it holds together when it comes to accuracy. It will not be holding together for long however...as i explained a little bit at 1:32 AM last night in this thread...is there a good way to post pictures in these threads?
When you say "country loving", are we talking about the great green outdoors or a particular genre of music?

Makes a world of difference to the answers...
This looks like a late night brainstorm that doesn't quite hold together.
That said I am picking some items. I won't critique your option list.
I am only choosing items I have personally listened to.

Harbeth 30.2
Holo DAC
Aurrender Streamer-Only brand you list I have heard
Pass INT 25 or 60 or 250 
Rega TT
Manley Phono Pre

You’re going to have to go on looks and fit alone. What will you miss looking at the most, is what stays. The heart should follow the eyes, and the ears have already been captured by all. So go with that. Being that you have seen fit to accommodate a tempestuous girlfriend in your life, no need to suffer sorrow on top of it. Go with what makes your eyes sing my friend (hers can’t be too far behind). Surely, that is the path of least resistance.
From an early age it became apparent that dbefus85 was not like the other children 😜😂😂😎
Lousy choice of LP front ends.   Don't want any of them.
OP should get out more.
"Maybe I'll give a piece to the first person with a helpful comment...=)" - See my first post above!
Print out the list of components on a large sheet of paper. Use large font type. Hang paper list on a wall. Stand back and throw darts at it. Take note of where the darts land and write it down. Do it once for each category. 
@dbefus85....*G*  A lucky guess on my part....;)

Other than a Nuevo Revisit to the G. Deads'/Owsley funded "Wall of Sound"....I can only surmise that you have listened to every single item on that massive list, and love 'em all enough to be saddled with it all....

...along with the SigOther, which some have taken a certain stance on her....*ah*...'viability' in this regard...
On that note....keep her....anyone that's allowed you to amass that mass and has finally dropped the other slipper....
'Nuff said. *S*

No, not The Blots......I never 'see' anything in them. *shrug*
Always remind me of paper sheets folded and inserted into one's posterior during the runs....

That absurd-vation either marks me as a potential sociopathic mess or just short of short stories on imagined explanations of post-Pollack primal poops.

Anyway....anything 'she' marks for 'destruct', don't.  I will happily 'stash the mass' for you in the Unknown Museum style, labeled "In-audible Sources: TowerTypes".

...line cords neatly braided into a continuous hawser of vinyl and wire....

Outside, cast-off LP's clipped into props, allowed to twist in the wind, like last summer.....
I'm sorry, but the only helpful comment I can offer is the solution I took. Get a shovel and get rid of the wife/girlfriend.
@asvjerry Your on to me!...I will be bringing out the inkblots in the next test.


@vinyl_rules  Did you just insult someone for posting a message ,that you found the time to read and comment on, during their Independence Day. Surely not!?!?

If I am ever in the need of a blog proofer...I know who to come to...Revel F328bes..."Samsonite, I was way off!"
@Ihasguy...precisely! chose the contradictory title as its not a hypothetical at all...it is my exact situation as I must downsize from 3 structures to 1...I've been thinking of it as an interesting exercise as our community usually thinks of how to add to, or improve, their system(s). This time I must take what I've learned and narrow it down to 3. Some may have wondered what I'll actually do with the rest of the gear? Maybe I'll give a piece to the first person with a helpful comment...=)
This is either a trick question or the audiophile equivalent of a Rorschach test...

...and I've spent the 4th in a far worse way, and am not amused.
This is how you waste your time on July 4th?

Oh, and this may come as a big shock to you after you wasted time posting this drivel that no one has any interest in: There is NO 326bes in Revel’s current product line! 😩😩😩
First Watt J8? I’m guessing that’s supposed to be J2? Unless,perhaps you are very,very good friends with Nelson Pass,and he built you a one off. 
Hey now. What about LGBTQXYZ’s?
I don’t get the urgent crap!

Start with a Sugden Masterclass LA-4
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