I’m always drawn to troll OPs. Like a moth to flame.
List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid
How did you proportion your system spending? You can choose to list by component name or type, and by the the price you actually paid new or used, OR by the original full retail price. Just be consistent.
For example, by price paid mine would be-
Millercarbon: Tone arm, speakers, phono stage, motor, cartridge, turntable, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), speaker cable, power cords, room treatment and tweaks, amp, interconnect.
But by full retail price when new mine would be:
Millercarbon: Speakers, speaker cables, tone arm, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), phono stage, power cords, cartridge, motor, interconnect, amp, room treatment and tweaks (fuses, ECT, HFT, etc).
For example, by price paid mine would be-
Millercarbon: Tone arm, speakers, phono stage, motor, cartridge, turntable, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), speaker cable, power cords, room treatment and tweaks, amp, interconnect.
But by full retail price when new mine would be:
Millercarbon: Speakers, speaker cables, tone arm, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), phono stage, power cords, cartridge, motor, interconnect, amp, room treatment and tweaks (fuses, ECT, HFT, etc).
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@almarg and others Al, I have great respect for you and the measured and super useful posts you provide. They often help me come to a greater understanding. -The lack of a trend may be a trend, but here, I'm not sure how that'd be helpful. Cheers This thread just seemed like a measuring contest to me. I think a lot of people would prefer not to disclose price, I am one. OP, when you ask people to talk about capital or finance, many choose not to. Looks like most people just responded in percentages. But to play along, I’ll provide percentages. Amp/pre - 57% Speakers - 32% Server - 8% CD - 1% Wire - 3% (surprised at how it sings with such a small investment here. I do believe in wire, especially power cords) |
Leaving out price is deliberate and makes it decidedly not a measuring contest. Leaving out even percentages makes it purely a list of which cost more- and letting people choose to go with either MSRP or what they paid is yet another way of hiding or avoiding the BSD effect. For once you can have Rotel, and nobody gives a Schiit. |
I read the start of the thread. That said, anyone wanting to know about the individual components in my system should simply go here, scroll to the bottom: https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/about Please note that you will not find cables there. I consider them a non-factor. As to cost, almost all the components were bought second hand or store demo model. The Koetsu Onyx was a gift. Beyond that, everyone here is fairly astute: I’m sure you can figure the cost yourselves. With regard to Elizabeth’s comment: these days, maybe for the last 20 years or so, I generally don’t care what other audiophiles are doing. I have an approach, a philosophy, I know what I want, I go for it and that’s that. |
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by price paid..... custom room design and build... speakers....Evolution Acoustics MM7’s Amplifiers....darTZeel NHB-468 mono blocks digital dac---MSB Select II with mono powerbases and 33 femto clock turntable---CS Port LFT1 turntable---Saskia model two preamp w/2 phonos---darTZeel NHB-18NS turntable---Wave Kinetics NVS digital server----SGM Extreme RTR tape deck---Studer A-820 grounding---Tripoint Elite phono cartridge---Etsuro Gold RTR tape deck---Studer A-820 whole system 10kva A/C power transformer---Equi=tech 10WQ wall panel system phono stage---CS Port C3EQM2 grounding---Tripoint Troy Signature tone arm--Durand Telos Sapphire tone arm--Durand Tosca phono cartridge---Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement RTR tape deck----Studer A-820 active isolation---Taiko Tana system (x5) tape output electronics---King-Cello by list price..... Evolution Acoustics MM7 speakers amplifiers---dart 468 mono blocks custom room design and build. MSB Select II with mono power bases and 33 Femto clock turntable---Saskia model two turntable---CS Port LFT1 turntable---Wave Kinetics NVS preamp w/2 phonos---dart 18NS RTR tape deck----Studer A-820 (1/4" + 1/2" heads) RTR tape deck----Studer A-820 1/4" RTR tape deck----Studer A-820 1/2" tone arm---Durand Telos Sapphire digital server---SGM Extreme phono cartridge---Etsuro Gold phono stage---CS Port C3EQM2 whole system 10kva A/C power transformer---Equi=tech 10WQ wall panel system. phono cartridge----Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement active isolation---Taiko Tana system (x5) tone arm----Durand Tosca tape output electronics---King Cello numerous other pieces, a few more cartridges, another tone arm, other grounding boxes and cables, power and signal cables, digital network interfaces, tweaks, tools, record cleaner, record flatener, acoustic treatments, and......of course......my media......7000-8000 Lps, 250 tapes, 4000+ CD’s, and 20+ tb’s of music including -2- 30tb NAS back up digital storage. more info and pictures on my system page. |
Marantz SR-18 receiver, new was $4,299, paid $399 Rotel RDV 1045 DVD/CDplayer, new was $600, paid $130 Mirage M590i speakers, new were $1,100, paid $150 Cardas B300 Microtwin interconnects, new $150, paid $80 Museatex(Meitner) 24 strand solid core speaker cables, new were $600, paid $80 Totals; new $6,149, paid $819 Musically dynamic, extremely neutral, great low level detail and the best non-electrostaic tweeter I've ever heard. |
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