Which purchase tipped you into nirvana.


After owning some excellent gear, which purchase was it that put a big smile on your face?
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Would it be better to use 9 three inch strips stacked? Or one 27 incher? I guess you could also try 27 one inches stacked? Less wrapping, more stacking.
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My {updated version} of my teflon tape on the ac prongs tweak !... Take three layers of ACE hardware brand teflon tape about 9 inches long and put all of them on top of each other together. Then you wrap it Tightly around one of the ac prongs. You do this to all three ac prongs. This is a...MUST TRY TWEAK !!.. This tweak needs to settle-in good for 4 or 5 days. Here's some pictures of this AMAZING tweak... http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/tweaks/messages/16/165450.html
My analog rig finally put the smile on my face after many years of digital dissatisfaction.
When I purchased my first pair of quality speakers -- Vienna Acoustics Mozart Grands.
Believe it or not, installing a pair of Audioprism Ground Controls on my Focal JM Lab BE Micro Utopia speakers not only tipped me to nirvana, but stopped the itch to upgrade. If the pair of Audioprism RCA Ground Controls that are on order do as much as the speaker Ground Controls, I might have to go back on oxygen.
It was really disheartening to see that of those who had actually achieved Nirvana/nirvana it had received only four out of five stars.
9.5ft Wow. We have tall ceilings now but I remember times we were living for many years in a hovel with such low ceilings we could only eat pancakes.
A 9.5 foot xmas tree in the corner of my listening room. it dramatically improved the acoustics.
amazing!
Pure Reference Extremes
Absolutely marvelous.....
My audio friends knew I was going to say that!

Regards,
Lots of smiles over the years. Biggest smiles and with the most recent and working backward......

Mint condition Marantz 7c preamp.
Conrad Johnson ART series 3 preamp.
Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage.
Marantz 2270 with the "gold/engraved" faceplate.
Marantz 10b tuner.
Modofying my Khorns w/ ALK crossovers, trachorn, JBL driver, crites tweeters
Each piece was an integral step forward, but I do not think I could get there with my budget without the modern OHM Walshes.
Usually every new piece of equipment I buy! Or even rearranging my old equipment can have unexpected pleasant suprises.
After 30 years in this hobby, I have found one piece that I think qualifies in answer to your question: the Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC. When I found this, I was about to despair over Redbook CD reproduction. Now I think I may be close to the end of my search for a truly musical sounding system.
Maestro ac outlets! Made my entry level system sound damn GOOD! I did the review on these outlets too soon because these outlets are still improving every day... more open and more spacious sound as they settle-in more! Look at my review
....buying a used pair of Dunlavy SC3's and upgrading from an integrated amp to seperate amp/pre-amp. I can't tell you how good those speakers sound: the clarity, depth, and articulation never cease to amaze me. I bought those speakers 12 years ago and someone will have to tear them from me. Unless, of course, I run across a used pair of SC4a's. (just kidding)
Emm Labs CDSD/Emm Labs DAC 6. Boosted my redbook collection with a unveliebable digital sound.
Odyssey Audio Stratos Extreme+++ power amp and Odyssey Audio Kismet Reference speakers. I have been in this hobby for more than 40 years and I keep asking myself "how come I didn't hear about Odyssey Audio much sooner?"

This power amp and speakers has brought my system to new heights and I am so amazed at the price to performance ratio. I would have bought these items at 5 times the price, they are that good.
An eight ball before The Dead pulled out "St Stephen" at The Garden in the 80's. (I think it was the 80's)..........
Hyperion HPS-938 speakers. Open, vivid but natural and relaxed/musical sound (with class D amp) - just opposite to Hi-Fiish sounding speakers. Incredible midrange. Uses speakers without suspension (spiderweb). Midrange 6 1/2" is damped with ferrofluid. Very tuneful bass with very low distortion and natural sounding string attack and decay.
First class imaging. Crossover integrates speakers so well that it is difficult to hear transition between them. I can hear extended and natural highs but cannot pinpoint tweeter alone. The only thing is that the are ugly - I mean UGLYYYYY... (but slowly growing on me).

Picture here: http://hyperionsound.com/Images/HPS-938.jpg

Awards it got here: http://hyperionsound.com/awards.htm
My first stereo system. Purchased with my earned savings when I was in 8th grade. Yea, my equipment got better and better over the years but my first stereo components blew me away (sans any drugs).

It got a work out with albums the likes of Jeff Beck-Truth, Stills, Kooper, Bloomfield - Super Session, James Gang - Rides Again, Traffic I, Genesis, Hendrix - Are You Experienced, Jethro Tull - Benefit, Pink Floyd - Meddle, King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King, Led Zeppelin I & II, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Yardbirds, and on and on.
My Edge 10.1 NL, and some REALLY great homemade powercords. My VSA SR IV's too.
Conrgatulations Almarg! If they sound as good as the picture you are headed for nirvana.
1. Wiring my system from outlet to speaker terminals with Crystal Cable Reference Connects.

2. The DeVore Super 8's

3. The Verity Audio Parsifal Ovations.
Windowpane at the Allman Brothers show at the Fillmore in 72.

4-way or 8-way?