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@Mister X
always wanted those. it would be my favo setup.

 

MBL setup... you can always spot it during the Hi-End Shows! A dozen of 200+lbs Dudes permanently glued to ALL the available seats in the room! (Oops, they all look like me!)
I am not a big fan of those boring Boulder amps (but $500k Naim Audio monsters are on my 'to buy' list...) but MBL Radialstrahler 101 X-treme does sound AWESOME, if you manage to block the sweet-spot-sweats from all those other Dudes in the room...

@19lexicon78 may I ask you to be a Doll and post your own Home Setup here... Not your Dream Setup!?!

 

love the boulder amps, good sound. never heard naim audio
my setup,

 

my cdp buddies
have also another 2nd sony cdp/s-3000 combo. should sell those, just like the rest, only keep the studer.

 

Cool thread! Here's my setup, Ayre with Focal Diablo Utopia standmount monitors. It's a small, moderately acoustically treated room with a wool floor rug, traps on the side walls for 1st reflections and GIK Acoustics absorbers behind the listening chair.

 

Nice setup Willng001

 

Thanks! I'm a Rangers die-hard. New Yorker now living in DC. It's unconditional love, despite the last few years.

Thanks! Brings me to an audio happy place.

 

I should've realized that you're a Wild fan (location: Minnesota). Zucc's a great player. A real feel-good story because he almost didn't make it in the NHL. His first stint with the Rangers was uneventful. Glen Sather gave him a second chance by re-signing him, and he took off after that. He can be kind of a conundrum to put on a line, he doesn't play the fastest but he's a play maker who is shifty and has great vision but likes to slow the play down.

I never dabbled in vinyl unfortunately. I used to have a tape deck a long, long time ago. It was a Bic T-2M, a poor man's Nakamichi. lol

 

@Willng001 - given your predicament, as evident from The Stereo, you should at least audition a turntable spinning a decently pressed vinyl!!! I re-entered 'analog' crowd about 15 years ago, when learned that Tchaikovsky's 5th under Mravinsky got re-issued. LP got purchased first, Linn Sondek LP12 a few weeks later. Over the years my Sondek got upgraded into a $20k Ultimate Beast and it bettered my best digital front-end each and every time (not to brag, since at this moment I am totally penniless, but I had the best Digital there is)

Ayre and Focal - I just LOVE them both! but never had a chance to hear in combination... Since Focal got into the same ownership as my fav. Naim Audio (as in my Avatar) I had a mis-pleasure to hear the combination more than once - always flat and un-involving! I think one of my local dealers in Santa Monica might be able to put this setup you have for me for a listening, it looks (theoretically) interesting...

 

Thanks Jorge! Haha, I grew up in the 80s, so my music coming-of-age experience was with tapes and then CDs. I think Focal and Ayre get along together -- at least for me; Ayre takes a little bit of that upper frequency sting out of the Focal, tames it just enough but preserves that beryllium top end clarity, and Ayre still retains that liquid midrange, tube-like solid state sound. I've seen endless comments on the web from analog/vinyl lovers that Ayre sounds closest to tubes out of all the solid state options but with solid state's PRAT. What was the digital front-end that you had?

 

I had quite a few in my all-NaimAudio stereo at home, auditioned a lot more at my local hi-end dealers. I must have mentioned CD/SACD spinners which I actually owned at another thread here:
http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/best-cdm-digital-out-cdp.7400/#post-54059
Ayre C-5 I Loved very much, but at that time I was going crazy about getting Linn Akurate player which just came out, so I returned C-5 and bought Akurate instead. Then traded Akurate for McIntosh (that was $10k to $3k 'downgrade' with some credit from the dealer which went towards Linn Sondek!) and enjoyed a few months of 'fame' when our house-guests actually noticed my Stereo: McIntosh looks absolutely stunning!!!
In the end I settled onto Wadia 781i which has an option to be set for 'analog-like, fluid sound' or 'PRAT-friendly digital' and being who I am, an incurable Flat-Earth-er I set her up for my favorite tuning. Then I realized that SACDs on Wadia, even $70-a-pop from Esoteric, do not sound as good as decent CDs played thru my Naim CDS3.... that is when I joined this fine S2G forum, kept spending my 'allowances' on LPs and enjoyed all the new crap coming up daily streamed from laptop to Wadia DAC
here is my stereo before everything went up in flames:


you can see customized Sony D-90 with Sennheiser HD-600 for when I was not allowed to make too much 'noise' in the house

 

my current speakers and probably my last, I'm sure most have seen my multitude of amps etc, excuse the mess lads

 

Radio Raheem, how many speakers

 

@Radio Raheem - you should have a Lot of air going towards your ‘sweet spot’, I imagine spinning some Pink Floyd gets you into their concerts mode… Wish I Were There!
Not much 3-D Imaging, myguess, for that treat you have to have @TooCooL4 setup,… but you have to compromise when on the budget under a $100k

 

Jeorge with the greatest respect, the place where i live isn't worth 100k lol

i wish you were all here lads

toocool can i ask how much you're speakers were my friend

 

Radio Raheem they are only cheap £5000 but i plan in upgrading them when i get round to it. The one i wanted at the time was the next one up at the time it was £10000 and i did not have the money. The latest equivalent is now £18000, but i still want and will get them at some point.