absolute best component you ever owned

This made me think about about several outstanding componets I've owned. Maybe, my response is going away from the main theme, but I've got to give this award to my VPI 17F record cleaning machine. Ten years, >6000 records and it is still delivering great sound improvements.

My Electrovoice Sentry II studio monitors. Sadly rotated out of service because they were Too Big. Other speakers reproduce her voice very impressively, but you gotta understand, the singer is really inside these speakers--singing through the grille fabric--that's really her behind that curtain! Agh, words fail me.

sound lab speakers

Tube Research Labs amps/pre-amps.

The rug I hung about 2.5" out from the back wall of my room that got in-room frequency response to within +/- .5dB from 1kHz up. At $150 including hardware, it's the cheapest component of the system, best improvement I ever made.

You can take my speakers... Just leave my rug! :)

Niels.