Greetings! I've enjoyed reading about the respective systems of other AK members so much that I'm going to throw my hat into the proverbial ring.
My current preferred system is based upon Marantz Model 5 monoblocks. I restored them to working order after they sat idle for 26 years, following a catastrophic failure. All electrolytic and film caps have been replaced with higher-tolerance modern equivalents, all carbon-composition resistors have been replaced with 1-5% metal or carbon film equivalents, and the selenium rectifiers in the bias power supplies have been replaced with silicon diodes and dropping resistors. The 6.8μf 630V Solen film caps used to bypass the stock bathtubs barely fit inside of the chassis. Ideally, I'd have left the bathtubs in-circuit, but replacement became necessary due to oil leaks.
The process of fitting all three 500V Sprague Atoms into the chassis proved interesting as well. Other caps used include offerings from Mundorf and Auricap, respectively.
Some would call this butchery, but they're ready for daily use for quite a while. The soldering isn't pretty, but they work very well. AK member Crooner helped me date them to 1959 production. ElectroHarmonix 6CA7s fill the power sockets, GE 6CG7s serve as phase-splitters, and GE JAN 6BH6 perform input duty. The rectifiers are Sovtek GZ34s.
30 watts per channel of Marantz power isn't much in relative terms, but it's more than enough to drive a pair of Crites-modified Klipsch Heresy I speakers. They have updated crossover capacitors, CT-120 tweeters, and new rubber gaskets in the midrange horns. The CT-120s tamed the oft mentioned Klipsch "shoutiness" quite effectively. Home-made 14 gauge speaker cables connect amps to speakers. I used standard automotive connectors, heat shrink tubing, and roll of copper wire intended for low-voltage home lighting to make the cables.
The preamp is a Dynaco PAS 3X with newly-built, stock design line and phono stages, and an updated power supply. Tubes4HiFi supplied the kits I used to build these respective boards. It works as it should, and offers plenty of room for improvement through modification. Sovtek 12AX7 LPS fill the line and phono boards.
The vast majority of tracks I play in a given day come from a Late 2014 Mac Mini runninng OSX Sierra, and a current version of iTunes. Apple Lossless CD-rips stream wirelessly to an Apple TV 3 that's optically connected to a Schiit Modi 2 Uber DAC. An iPad 4 makes a great remote for this setup, and makes it a cinch to play online content. The Schiit works, and effectively bridges the gap between 20th and 21st Century technologies.
A Thorens TD-145 with a Shure M97xe cartridge meets my 33.3 and 45 needs. Again, plenty of room for improvement exists, but it's more than enough to please.
The DVD player is a run-of-the mill Panasonic, and the TV is a relatively ordinary Samsung. Movies sound great, though.
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