What was the best system you've every had ?
Polkaguy58
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I'm not talking moneywise, as I'm not a rich man, I mean what system did you own that you thought was the finest sounding ?
Every once in awhile the stars seem to align and I'd come up with a system that shouldn't sound as good as it did.
My favorite and where I should've stopped at, was a Harman Kardon 730 Twin reciver, hooked to a pair of Polk Monitor 5's for the mains.
The rear channel went to and old Dahlquist D10 sub, that was powered by an external Velodyne amp plate, that I built into a box.
I then ran the rear speakers (Monitor 5 Jrs) off of the sub's amp.
This system, though it sounds like it came from the Goodwill store, was probably the best sound I've owned.
My buddy, who has a 6 figure income and at least 4 seperate awesome rigs dropped his jaw the first time he came over and listened to it.
He never lets me forget that I should have kept that one. (heh heh)
Every once in awhile the stars seem to align and I'd come up with a system that shouldn't sound as good as it did.
My favorite and where I should've stopped at, was a Harman Kardon 730 Twin reciver, hooked to a pair of Polk Monitor 5's for the mains.
The rear channel went to and old Dahlquist D10 sub, that was powered by an external Velodyne amp plate, that I built into a box.
I then ran the rear speakers (Monitor 5 Jrs) off of the sub's amp.
This system, though it sounds like it came from the Goodwill store, was probably the best sound I've owned.
My buddy, who has a 6 figure income and at least 4 seperate awesome rigs dropped his jaw the first time he came over and listened to it.
He never lets me forget that I should have kept that one. (heh heh)
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Best sounding system... My current one. KEF Q150s, NAD 1155 preamp (and matching 4155 tuner), NAD C352 integrated (preamp bypassed), Marantz CD6004, Technics SL3200 with an Audio Technica VM-95S/H, I think.
I would love to hear the Boston Acoustics VR2s I used to have on this gear, because they were great. I wonder how they'd compare. -
See my signature below...The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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I heard that the pink ones had better bass.............
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Separated at birth???
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mlistens03 wrote: »Best sounding system... My current one. KEF Q150s, NAD 1155 preamp (and matching 4155 tuner), NAD C352 integrated (preamp bypassed), Marantz CD6004, Technics SL3200 with an Audio Technica VM-95S/H, I think.
I would love to hear the Boston Acoustics VR2s I used to have on this gear, because they were great. I wonder how they'd compare.
My 80 year-young friend JUST bought a set of those Boston VR2's for 60.00 from a restore 3 days ago.
( It was a "habitat for humanity" store previously. They just changed the name on 2 stores around here a couple of years ago or more for some reason)
HE LOVES THEIR SOUND! He uses an old Pioneer Elite receiver and Elite CD players or a Sony ES CD player.
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
Like many here, my present system is the best. It is the result of years of improvements.
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Present system
Aragon 4004mkii
Adcom 565 pre
Yaqin CD3 6sn7 tube buffer
Pioneer PD09 SACD player
Oppo 205 uni-player
Polk 2.3tl with all upgrades with 1000va torrid
stand by amp Adcom 5802
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nooshinjohn wrote: »See my signature below...
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I love my RTA12B pushed with a refurbed Carver TFM45. Could not be happier with this combo. There are other components in the set that could use an upgrade. Loke a DAC and better pre amp than my Yamaha Aventage HTR.
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My current system. Expensive, but worth it. See the sig.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes
Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables
Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
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My current system. Expensive, but worth it. See the sig.
Seeing as though you can't use it without electricity, you may as well send it to me.
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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Back in the 80’s had this Aiwa boom box. Might have had 50 or so cassettes, but we were also in the middle of deployment, and after 87 days floating around, those tapes were well used.
Anyway, we pulled into FM reception range of Perth Australia, and the first song I stopped on was Van Halen’s “Panama”. That had to be the best sound I have ever heard.
So I’ll go with that 80’s Aiwa boom box, model number long forgotten. -
While my SDA2B, Adcom GFA545 and Denon PRA1200 is technically my best sounding system, I miss the days I wasn’t so analytical.
The 5Bs with my 80s Marantz junker were a great sounding simple system.Just a dude doing dude-ly things
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mlistens03 wrote: »Best sounding system... My current one. KEF Q150s, NAD 1155 preamp (and matching 4155 tuner), NAD C352 integrated (preamp bypassed), Marantz CD6004, Technics SL3200 with an Audio Technica VM-95S/H, I think.
I would love to hear the Boston Acoustics VR2s I used to have on this gear, because they were great. I wonder how they'd compare.
My 80 year-young friend JUST bought a set of those Boston VR2's for 60.00 from a restore 3 days ago.
( It was a "habitat for humanity" store previously. They just changed the name on 2 stores around here a couple of years ago or more for some reason)
HE LOVES THEIR SOUND! He uses an old Pioneer Elite receiver and Elite CD players or a Sony ES CD player.
You got to get an ear on those! they are quite good. -
Either of the two I had before I found this forum
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This seems a rather redundant question. Who in their right mind would go backwards unless someone has had to start over. I believe most will say their current system.
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This seems a rather redundant question. Who in their right mind would go backwards unless someone has had to start over. I believe most will say their current system.
No not really sometimes life dictates a need to sell and sometimes you do not have the ability to replace what you had. It took me many many years to where I'm at now it would be hard to replicate it again if I had to sell it off. -
Like many here, my present system is the best. It is the result of years of improvements.
Ditto.
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This seems a rather redundant question. Who in their right mind would go backwards unless someone has had to start over. I believe most will say their current system.
No not really sometimes life dictates a need to sell and sometimes you do not have the ability to replace what you had. It took me many many years to where I'm at now it would be hard to replicate it again if I had to sell it off.
Which is why I mentioned the part in bold unless someone has had to start over. -
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This seems a rather redundant question. Who in their right mind would go backwards unless someone has had to start over. I believe most will say their current system.
No not really sometimes life dictates a need to sell and sometimes you do not have the ability to replace what you had. It took me many many years to where I'm at now it would be hard to replicate it again if I had to sell it off.
Which is why I mentioned the part in bold unless someone has had to start over.
yea I missed that on the quick read of the phone :embarrassed face here:
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This seems a rather redundant question. Who in their right mind would go backwards unless someone has had to start over. I believe most will say their current system.
No not really sometimes life dictates a need to sell and sometimes you do not have the ability to replace what you had. It took me many many years to where I'm at now it would be hard to replicate it again if I had to sell it off.
Which is why I mentioned the part in bold unless someone has had to start over.
yea I missed that on the quick read of the phone :embarrassed face here:
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I did not know you could still have a signature on this site....I assume I cant see them because I am in "mobile mode"...
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My best was 2B's on the same setup I have now but in my old apartment and on a Yamaha PX-3 with Dynavector 10x2H instead of my current digital source.
Although these Infinity Kappa 5's in this smaller room are also very good, just not as quite.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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I did not know you could still have a signature on this site....I assume I cant see them because I am in "mobile mode"...
All of the cool kids set signatures to "OFF". -
My current rig, which is:
Belles 200a amp
Cary SLP 03 pre
Benchmark DAC1
Auralic Aries mini
Music Hall 7.2 turntable
Totem Rainmaker monitors
REL T 5 sub
just picked up a Parasound z Phono to get the vinyl spinning again.
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Yup, that does seem to be the case (just checked). I never use my phone for CP and it works normally on an iPad (even without the newly released iPad OS).I did not know you could still have a signature on this site....I assume I cant see them because I am in "mobile mode"...Alea jacta est! -
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