Ron, I don't visit this site all that often but whenever I do I notice that your system description is mostly "on order." It shows you have a power amp and cables, but everything else is basically a wish list. What gives here? Do you have an operating system? Perhaps you have simply not updated the component list in a long time. I am not trying to be snarky; this is a genuine question and if you have explained this elsewhere, I apologize in advance.
No worries! I am glad you asked!
My last system, which I enjoyed without change (I am not an equipment swapper or frequent upgrader) since about 2000, consisted of a Benz Ruby 2 cartridge on a Graham 2.2 tonearm on a VPI TNT Mk. IV turntable with an Aesthetix Io using Transparent interconnects and Reference XL-V speaker cables to VTL MB-750s to Martin-Logan Prodigy speakers.
That system was set up in three different rooms: 1) an apartment, 2) a medium size room in a house and 3) a larger room in a house. After the system was set up in the larger room in my house (the room in all of the photos on my system upgrades thread) in 2012 I discovered that the house, including that listening room, needed to be repaired. Those repairs have been, and continue to be, on-going. I disassembled the system to enable the listening room to be repaired. We hope the repairs will be finished in the middle of next year.
Since then I decided that since I had to repair the house I also had the opportunity to upgrade the listening room. I decided to put together my best system ever. I sold my long-time analog front-end and the speakers.
Since then I have enjoyed visiting manufacturers, dealers, audio shows and audiophiles to audition components and systems, and I have enjoyed getting to know several of the people on WBF, and their stereo systems. So I have used the last five years to research, audition and plan (MikeL says, not without reason, "hatch") my next audio system.
Even when I make a component decision (I ordered Gryphon Pendragon speakers a couple of years ago) I cannot take delivery of the component because first we were traveling and now we are living temporarily in a small apartment. The speakers are in local storage.
There is no point in asking Jim White to build my Io and Callisto because I have no place to put them. Hence they remain "ordered." This is true of the turntable as well.
When I make a firm purchase decision but I cannot take delivery I consider that item to be "ordered." If I make a
tentative decision which has not resulted in a purchase I consider that item "to come."