New member here, as I just found this great site!!
I am planning on assembling an extremely substantial new system for late this year that is going to be an assault on the best that a number of companies produce. I have had two transcendental experiences with high end audio in my life and now I am at a point where I am going to see what the best of the best sounds like. My first experience was back in 1984 at an audio store in San Antonio, TX. That system featured a monster pair of Linn Isobarik speakers powered by a 6 pack of Naim amps with a LP-12 TT. The LP was a London/Decca with Mehta/Sutherland/Pavarotti/LPO (an album I was VERY familiar with) and my friends and I were BLOWN AWAY by what we heard. I was so stunned that a month later, as I was about to start my one and only job as a high school band director, I found myself in the local teacher's credit union taking out a loan for $2,500 for my own LP-12....
In 2004 I encountered Boulder and Focal. My good friend had a store in Austin, TX and he had in his reference room a pair of Focal Nova Utopia Be's, Boulder's 2050 monoblocks and 2010 preamp/2020 DAC/2008 Phono, an Accuphase DP-100/DC-101 (DAC/Transport) with all Tara Labs reference cabling. I heard that system at least 4 nights a week for months. The most amazing was one night with a CD from Wagner's Ring Cycle (Solti/Culshaw/Vienna/Decca) and it was Die Gotterdammerung....I started freaking out during the music leading up to Siegfried's Funeral Music....I swear, I was transported to the Sofiensaal in Vienna, 1964 about 6 feet behind Solti and Windgassen (our Siegfried) about 30' away....totally spooky and totally mind blowing...never had I realized that a recording could be so bloody life like!!!
These two amazing events, nearly 20 years apart, are what has set me on this path towards audio enlightenment....if such a thing is possible!!
SO, I am looking forward to seeing and hearing what the best offered is by a number of companies!! And I will gladly share the experiences here!
Many thanks,
I am planning on assembling an extremely substantial new system for late this year that is going to be an assault on the best that a number of companies produce. I have had two transcendental experiences with high end audio in my life and now I am at a point where I am going to see what the best of the best sounds like. My first experience was back in 1984 at an audio store in San Antonio, TX. That system featured a monster pair of Linn Isobarik speakers powered by a 6 pack of Naim amps with a LP-12 TT. The LP was a London/Decca with Mehta/Sutherland/Pavarotti/LPO (an album I was VERY familiar with) and my friends and I were BLOWN AWAY by what we heard. I was so stunned that a month later, as I was about to start my one and only job as a high school band director, I found myself in the local teacher's credit union taking out a loan for $2,500 for my own LP-12....
In 2004 I encountered Boulder and Focal. My good friend had a store in Austin, TX and he had in his reference room a pair of Focal Nova Utopia Be's, Boulder's 2050 monoblocks and 2010 preamp/2020 DAC/2008 Phono, an Accuphase DP-100/DC-101 (DAC/Transport) with all Tara Labs reference cabling. I heard that system at least 4 nights a week for months. The most amazing was one night with a CD from Wagner's Ring Cycle (Solti/Culshaw/Vienna/Decca) and it was Die Gotterdammerung....I started freaking out during the music leading up to Siegfried's Funeral Music....I swear, I was transported to the Sofiensaal in Vienna, 1964 about 6 feet behind Solti and Windgassen (our Siegfried) about 30' away....totally spooky and totally mind blowing...never had I realized that a recording could be so bloody life like!!!
These two amazing events, nearly 20 years apart, are what has set me on this path towards audio enlightenment....if such a thing is possible!!
SO, I am looking forward to seeing and hearing what the best offered is by a number of companies!! And I will gladly share the experiences here!
Many thanks,
.
