Ultimate $10K home office system for vinyl?


Looking for some advice/inspiration... If you had a $10K (USD) budget for a home office/listening room, which turntable/amps/speakers would you buy?  

Assume that the system will only be used for vinyl records - i.e. no CD player, radio etc. - just the best bang for buck vinyl-only system for $10K.  

 

 

capojacko

Well, my office system ended up being Totem Mite speakers with a matching subwoofer (all three beautiful wood). A PrimaLuna integrated amp… mine is all digital… because getting interrupted every twenty minutes in not condusive for work… you want to get in flow and stay there. I was always handling very complex problems, it could take fifteen minutes to get the whole thing in my head, and then interruption the whole thing would collapse and I would have to spend a lot of time getting back to where I was. Streaming is better for me. 

 

So, maybe a Clear Audio Concept or Rega Planar 6 with maybe a Gold Note phonostage… unless you could get a used PrimaLuna phonostage (they are really important).

That's a very good point. Most of the time I don't mind listening to records but there will be times that streaming would be helpful as well. 

Your question is so general.  There are so many combo permutations coupled by different subjective preferences it's probably not useful.  Even for a single component like speakers you'd get a lot of different answers. 

Do you prefer bookshelf on wall, stand mount, or floorstanders? Are you able to pull the speakers out into the room which most speakers require?  Tube or SS electronics (they usually sound very different)?  What type of music do you listen to?  What volume do you listen to?  New or used to save money?  

Maybe the best way to figure this out is to determine your speakers first, then see how much you have left to spend on the rest of your system - turntable, preamp, amp, phono preamp, cabling.

 

My question was really more like a thought exercise and it's meant to be subjective.  I'm specifically looking for personal opinions- how would YOU spend the $10K and why?  it's not about arriving at a correct/objective answer.