If equipment were free, what would you have?

[Hobie1dog]

Magnaplanar 20.7 speakers (7 of them)
McIntosh 1.2kw amps (7 of them)
Esoteric Audio front end
Micro Seiki TT w/ 4 arms
Tara Labs cables

4 Stereo Integrity 24" subwoofers, each driven by a 14kw amp.

 

[twiiii]

I like to have a 30/12 SME Turntable with a Clear audio Straight line tracking tone arm. I'd like to have 3 XR 290 Speakers with 4 XRt 28, and a whole bunch of 1.2 K amps. I'd want 4 Accuphase room processors. I'm still not sure my room perfect is the answer. I guess you better throw in some of the big Dynavector cartridges. I would need 4 more MPI-4, my tuners are all perfect. Maybe a MCD550. A custom hifi cabinet so I could fit in 17 inch and 19 inch wide units. How about 10,000 CD's 10,000 Lp's a a few 1000 DVD's.

 

[just dave]

Here you go. Infinity IRS-V's
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yep that's them

 

[turnitdown]

I've read this thread. I tried, but my system suits me well. Any improvement would be so small I will probably add a Bryston amp, but that's it.

 

[Sandstrom]

 

[Ohighway]

I like the way you think ....... though in my case I'd want the machines I cut my teeth on. Didn't realize till later just how good I had it !! Seriously TOTL.....

Deckel FP2 Universal Milling Machine



Monarch EE lathe

 

[avionic]

For me it was a Clausing-Kondia similar to..

 

[datafone]

I would address my needs, and not my wants that might exceed what I need.

So it would be what I have now, maybe spend a couple of hundred on making a new set of speaker cables to replace the Neotech ones, and spend a few hundred on Hot rodding the Marantz player.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Talk about hijacking a thread

 

[datafone]

Talk about hijacking a thread

Who?

Edit: deleted
Thanks, xero, am yet to get some sleep so it had me confused

 

[xero-D-hero]

Who?

Safe assumption that he's refering to the guys posting pics of lathes & milling machines on an audio forum.
And possibly those who're replying to those posts as well...

But that's just a WAG.

Bret P.

 

[E-Stat]

Here you go. Infinity IRS-V's

And yet, as impressive as the ones I heard at Sea Cliff were in many aspects, the bass towers sounded as though they belonged to a different speaker.

Truly coherent from top to bottom they were not to these ears. Neither were Arnie's Genesis towers that followed.

 

[djnagle]

All of it.

 

[ConradH]

Ha, my thread, my interests! And that covers machine tools that are used to make things like turntables. You think those parts grow on trees?

I'll never have one, but I'd love an Abene VHF-3 mill in nice shape.

 

[avionic]

I made a real dandy stereo stand with the mill pictured.

 

[ConradH]

Cool! I've got a glass-blowing torch, but the plasma ball is a lot bigger than I could manage.

 

[nailer]

A VPI Classic Direct with three extra arm wand, Bob Carver's ALS speakers and monos, four new cartridges for the new table, and Berning's 200 WPC mono ZOTL. An SME 30/12 and another cartridge would be nice too. And an Accuphase T-1100, Kenwood L-02T and Marantz 10b. Let's throw in an MFA Luminescence too.

I'd also get a few very pricey pieces and flip them to fund putting a dedicated listening room on top of my garage.

 

[DaveVoorhis]

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My plasma sphere is far too small.
If gear were free and I could have it all,
I would have that nifty ball.

 

[JoeESP9]

I think some do not understand the question. The key word being free.

 

[Marine0811]

Altec A1's would be a great start. Probably multiple Mc units to power them