What is your most beautiful component?
How my components look is not very important, because most are enclosed in a beautiful Custom Shoppe oak cabinet designed just for that purpose. My ACI Titan II LE looks quite nice for a subwoofer and offers excellent performance sonicly and as an endtable. I used to like the way my old Bang & Olufsen RX-2 turntable looked, and it sounded almost as good. |
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vopin&1043544749&openusid&zzTok20000&4&5#Tok20000 This link will show you many pics of my Mahlers and other beautiful components. Enjoy! KF |
can't compete after seeing, not to mention helping Mr.Tubes put his amps together. These are the most beautiful, sexy amps I have seen. Sitting on the Sistrum stands makes one take notice. They don't sound half bad either. He thinks i am envious. He is right, but he will never hear it from me. How you be Dekay? If you are talking about the OTA, cute is the best way to describe them. What I like most about them is that I can't see them. |
I've sold a lot of gear over the years, and still like the beautiful lines of the SF speaker line as a whole. My favorite pieces where my Sonus F. Minima Amators. They were DEAD SEXY to my eyes, and where very nice sounding speakers with the right gear. Unfortunately I don't have pics anymore. If you can find a pair of these, and have stable voltage(or lowish voltage) out of your wall, and/or can put your amp on a bigger PSaudio P600 or bigger for voltage stabalization, I think you'll love the Esotar tweeter and nice mid/bass preproduction of these EXCELLENT minimonitors! They need solid state all the way though, at least in the amp. Anyone who own's the speakers will VISUALLY, and potentially sonically, NOT BE DISSAPOINTED with care in set up and lower stand placement with lower ceilings. nice WWWRROOOOOOKIIIInnnGGG speakas!!!! |
That's an easy one for me... Not only are my Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers the most beautiful components within my 2-channel playback system, they are probably the most beautiful items I own, period. Hand Finished Maple with gloss black trim. Oversized knurled gold binding posts and the very special 'grill cloth'. Perfectly proportioned steel black integrated stands with finely machined spikes. (I'm starting to breath heavy...) Just gorgeous to look at... and even more so to hear. Thanks, TSV_1 |
Ever see the platter on the new Rega P9 TT? It may not be thick, but it is about as inert as a substance can get. It is ceramic that has been fused to the hardness of saphire. Supposedly this material is used in nuclear missiled. All I can say it is pretty darn heavy, and the P9 is quite a table. Not quite my most beautiful component though.... But it is my most beautiful sounding component. KF |
Betcha, yes the Teres TT is better with the lead shot-filled platter. It looks better and it sounds better, than the one that I have. I will eventually get that platter upgrade for my Teres. However, I did talk for a long time with Chris Brady of Teres about this, and we both concluded that the lead shot-filled cocobolo wood base is a more significant sound upgrade than the lead shot-filled platter. So if you start out with the all-acrylic model 135, you get a better sonic upgrade with the cocobolo wood base, than the lead/acrylic platter.I did this when I got that base, and uprgraded my 135 to a 245, and got a shocking improvement. When you have both of them together, as in the Model 255, you have an incredible sounding, and looking, TT. And no matter how good it looks, it sounds much better. It is truly a wonderful high end rig. |
Without a doubt, my Adcom GFP-750. It is EASILY the most elegant component in my system. My Magnum Dynalab FT-101 does gets honorable mention however (it's not as elegant as my Adcom GFP-750 Two Channel Pre, but it does look the business, and in my book, that's what makes it a beautiful component in its own right). --Charles-- |
I would say it's a tie between Emotive Audio products and Rix Rax. http://www.emotiveaudio.com http://www.rixrax.com The Emotive products are really striking, expecially the LE versions of the Sira and Caeli which have hand etched top plates. They are all unique - no two are alike (although when you buy a pair of Caeli LE's the theme on both the monoblocks is the same) The Rix Rax are gorgeous, especially with the Tom McKenzie inlays and feathering, but even just a stock rack in a standard finish will make your jaw drop. It's hard to grasp just how beautiful the racks are until you see them up close and in person. If you really want to blow somebody's mind, you could put the Emotive components _on_ a Rix Rax. We do that here in the shop and it makes quite an impression. --Evan |
