Audio Fantasies

My fantasy as a kid was to have a nice stereo.  
 

So in that sense I am living the fantasy. 

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Mine is for my $250 per week property tax to be eliminated and the discretionary income realized to be spent on hardware instead.

I'd say everyone. Who doesn't have an idea of what their fantasy system would sound like. Everyone working towards that.

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I have enough trouble picking real speakers to fantasize about imaginary ones :)

I'm not that obsessive, I guess. 

Just me.

When I read an interesting post I often try to imagine what kind of system the poster has and listens to, especially when they list their favorite music or advocate for an array of subs. Some posters add pictures of their systems to their profiles but looking at those would spoil my fantasies after all not knowing is the best part of a fantasy.

good question. 

My imaginary hifi rack is full of imaginary equipment. 

One reason I read this forum is to see that people do own those beautiful looking and sounding stuff from my imaginary collection.  

Literally nobody does that. Nice job, OP. The responses say everything. Troll post of the year!

I used to. I had a system in mind starting with a pair of Infinity electrostatics, the . Servo Statik 1A. Since that time I'm more interested in quaint little systems for near field listening. Don't think stand-mounted bookshelves, my mono system has 2 twelve inch woofers plus a 12 inch sub.

My fantasy system would be a large dedicated and treated sound room followed by a pair of MBL Extreme speakers and the most expensive MBL amps & preamp.  An Eseteric top of the line SACD player, top line McIntosh tuner and a turntable arm and cartridge for around 100K total, plus all the uber expensive cables and high end audio racks and platforms. I figure around 1 million, give or take.

I found a pair of Anthony Gallo 5LS. Driven by blue circle pre and amp. Fed by BluOS streamer and a michel gyrodec  mkI w/ a Zeta tionearm and Sumiko cart. It took a long time to put together. It’s too bad Gallo went to architectural speakers because the 5LS are something special.  multiple problems with the Gyrodec to get it up to code. Monstrously large soundstage which at time comes a from behind me. 
 

Mine would be a factory-installed OEM system with a Lamborghini wrapped around it.

Even as a kid I always wondered what those big money systems sounded like.

Top of the line dedicated room (think Mike Lavigne ) first. Then Rockport Lyra with full stack of Boulder or CH precision. Full loom of Nordost Odin cables. 

I thought this site was my own personal fantasy and all of you were just voices in my head.

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Top of the line dedicated room (think Mike Lavigne ) first ...

Ugh - I'd never be happy with any system that required me to leave my house for an outbuilding. That would be just a nuisance to me.

OOOh YES baby sounds in bedroom are audible fantasies :)

@cleeds 

I agree with that. 

Fantasies a.k.a theorycrafting beforehand about a component, can lead to sky high expectations before you get to actually hear that speaker or other component.

When it does end up not meeting such expectations during an in-person audit...you could be happy with what you've got, i suppose.

+1 @nonoise 

Does building a bucket list system from scratch trying to land near endgame count?

Does sideways exploration count?

Does sideways exploration count?

You mean those series of images of 50K systems of member profiles named "my office system", "garage system", "pantry system", "storage pod system"...?

Ah, the pantry system. Something even the butler and maid can enjoy to make their lives less miserable. 

My fantasy system would be a large dedicated and treated sound room

Check out Michael Fremer's dedicated and treated sound room in the house that he built.  It is on YouTube.  It is insane what steps he took to make the perfect listening room, right down to triple latched magnetically sealed doors for soundproofing.

@moto_man - MF used to have a very packed space, was amazed it sounded good.  Thanks for the update.

My audio fantasy is having Tom Cruise invite me over to hear his system! And then we talk shop and I convince him about things he does not have time to study.

:)

In 1968 but Step father and Mother broke up...Well I got to have his Motorola console  Stereo and it was great ,12" Woofers, turntable, tube amps, Reverb  Am/Fm Stereo tunner...It was my dream come true...wish I could of moved it into MG bedroom....LOL