Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned?


Yes, the CJ ART, various Audio Research were all great...but I do remember lower priced items that gave much pleasure for their price.

In no order, The Large Advent,  DQ-10, Nakamichi SR receivers,  inexpensive Nordost cables, many tuners giving good vibes vis "FREE" music.  Also, in a different way, the Nakamichi TM radios and SoundSpace systems. 

There was a solid state ARC pre that was very good....ls-12?

And I do  remember "free" listening at some friends homes/systems that were great values. I was exceedingly lucky to have a best friend that bought most of my gear when I was "moving on".  It gave me the chance to listen to what I had had compared to what I currently had....at least once what I had sold to him was better than what my replacement gear was...........the old "live and learn". 





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A pair of Klipsch CF-2 speakers I picked up for $75.  They were a little rough around the edges.  I enjoyed them for a while and then sold them for quite a bit more.
I have to add this.  I bought a Technics SL 1200 MK2 for $600 that came with a Zu Audio Denon DL-103.  The cartridge sounded like crap and at first I thought it was just a bad match with the turntable, so I put something else on and put the Zu in the closet, where it sat for months.  Out of curiosity, I recently decided to the cartridge on another table.  It sounded like crap there also, lots of distortion in one channel.  I sent it off to Andy Kim who worked his magic on it and for less than $500 I have a cartridge that is in the same league as other cartridges I own that cost from 2-4 times what I spent to have the ZU DL-103 brought back to life.  Big props to Andy Kim!