If you sell the VK-500, that would give you a $12,500 budget.
For that amount you could purchase the following used items:
McCormack DNA-2 Rev A amp at $4200. Far superior sonically when compared to the VK-500 (I used to own a VK-500 and now own a DNA-2 LAE).
Aerial Acoustic Model 10T speakers at $4000 in a nice rosewood finish. Excellent full rang speaker.
Placette active preamp at $4000.
For those three items, you're looking at about $20k retail and $12,200 used. And assuming you have a good source cd or lp player, you'd have a system with transparency and detail and dynamics where you'd pull out every old lp and cd to hear them in a way you'd never thought possible.
-IMO
For that amount you could purchase the following used items:
McCormack DNA-2 Rev A amp at $4200. Far superior sonically when compared to the VK-500 (I used to own a VK-500 and now own a DNA-2 LAE).
Aerial Acoustic Model 10T speakers at $4000 in a nice rosewood finish. Excellent full rang speaker.
Placette active preamp at $4000.
For those three items, you're looking at about $20k retail and $12,200 used. And assuming you have a good source cd or lp player, you'd have a system with transparency and detail and dynamics where you'd pull out every old lp and cd to hear them in a way you'd never thought possible.
-IMO