The BEST system you've ever built !!!!

Monrio Asty cd
Labtek 300B valve amplifier 9w
Usher 737 floor stand loudspeakers

My main system-Rotel Rcd 951 cd player
Denon PMA 2000r integrated amp
B&W Cdm1 nt speakers
comes in second to the best system I have built-
Musical Fidelity X-can V2 headphone amplifier
Sennheiser Hd 600 headphones
Rotel Rcd 951 cd player
Neither comes all that close to real life, but both are satisfying and the best I have had. I think the headphone set up has greater presense and has a more natural sound, or so it seems. At the very least, it has an ease to it that I find very appealing. The Denon is huge and heavy and a bit squat, and somehow I have become fond of it. I would like to see what becomes of it given a "better" cd player than the 951- would like to go full circle before I consider replacing it, even as I suspect it is the weakest link in this combination.

RTR ESR-6 tweeters
Electrovoice 350 horn mids
15 inch Speakerlab woofers in ported cabinet
Stereo 70 for tweeters
2 x Dynaco Mark IIIs for mids
2 x Dynaco Mark VIIs for bass
Carver C-9 holographic sound processor
Dynaco PAT-3 Preamp
Technics 1400 turntable

Jim -- wow! You STILL have that speaker system, right?

Please don't say you've sold it... it'll take $50+ grand for a commercial sonic equivalent (if not more).
(IF you still have it, why not go for 2x15" spkrlabs per channel in an W open baffle -- as per Linkwitz. Should give you tremendous authority down to ~30Hz with some equalisation).

Von Schweikert VR-11's
Tenor 300 mono blocks
EMM Labs DCC2
EMM Labs CDSD
Jena Labs Cables
Engineered room
SME 30

Simple and real music.