Thanks @ghdprentice I have mostly been looking at the “Audio Perfectionist journal”.
$100K system build - % breakdown of spend
I know there are several such breakdowns all over the web, but each different in one way or another. Thanks in advance for anyone willing to lend thoughts here.
Assuming $100K to build a system (indifferent between new/used) with equal time spent and enjoyment from streaming and vinyl (for now leaving out other digital and other analog), does the following ballpark seem reasonable? If you’d bump something up, what would you bump down?
Speakers - $30K
Subs - $5K
Amp(s) - $20K
Preamp - $10K
TT, cartridge, arm, phono preamp - $10K
DAC - $5K
Streamer - $5K
Cables, Interconnects, Power Cords, Power Cond/Regen - $10K
Isolation Products, room treatments and system rack(s) - $5K
Leaving out for now fuses, contact enhancers and the like.
Thanks again for any thoughts.
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Thanks @petaluman and all others. Fair point about the room. The room now (and in the future) is not a TV room. I think windows will be the main obstacle. Similar to my room now, I’m probably destined for a main floor room, mostly dedicated to hifi, with some plants, shelves, more seating than just the sweet spot, etc. I’ll have to think about windows/treaments some, I think. Received a copy of Jim Smith’s Get Better Sound over the holidays - haven’t started yet but perhaps I’ll get some ideas from there. I also appreciate the comment re: power conditioning. |
As a third person reviewer, please let me know how it goes for you Sir.
(where ideally all pre amps would have a standard low output impedance and all amps a stanrd high input impedance, and just be “wires with gain”. And then those flaws are more like getting vinegar into the food, so we spice it up some sugar and pineapple to make a sweet and sour sauce… rather than a Carolina BBQ sauce… or some other appealing flavour. Or we have lack of synergy where the flaws are all the same direction in vector space. Ideally we choose equipment where the error vectors are close to being zero magnitude, and then we do not care which direction they point as they sum close to zero, because individually they are all close to zero. The other synergy example might be having a bright SS amp with a bunch of high freq harmonics. So we use a tube amp with high low low order harmonics to hide the high frequency harmonics. In the context of starting with a $100k budget, one would hope that there would be no obvious “stinkers” in the resultant stack of gear that was acquired. |
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