Acquiring an awesome system, but how?

As my SS friends say "He went over to the dark side"...Kinda Cheneyesque...but get some tube amps. You will never go back. I have a great SS amp...very transparent...but no match for my Vac's.

I think a quicker path to audio satisfaction (maybe heaven, but I'd not count on it, as that price tag is more than I want to pay right now), is the 'same + same' power train way. Maybe to the point of the source being from the likewise maker too.

A more meandering way is merely to have the ability to be paitient or easy to satisfy (within reasonable criteria) as both aspects seem to create a more positive atmosphere. (No ppun intended).

I've heard all Levinson + Maggies... All Krell + B&W. Both used Transparent wires. Both sounded super in a good many areas. I've heard all Ayre + Wilson. Again, pretty good. Also all CJ + cones and panels... again, I could live with it I suppose. All BAT with Various speakers. All Thor with VSA. the last mix was my choice for a long while.

That changed later on.

Therein lies the real issues. One's degree of stability, desire, funding, and ego are and have been all areas of concern for myself. A few of them I can manage, other's I can not.

Personally, I enjoy each aspect of better audio, save for panel speakers. Although I even like a lot of what they can do, they simply aren't for me. Past that I like it all.

All SS for HT. All Hollow state for most music, and HS + SS AMP for other music.

In every case, as articulate and revealing a source I can listen to as is possible.

Wish I could stick to merely one method... but that's the way it is for me. I have become less picky however, finding out there are inumerable pieces being made today which are really, really good. That helps a lot.

And I found out just how far into or past, the point of diminishing returns I can afford to dwell in routinely.

Being OK with that 'point' or state of affairs winds down the chasing ones tail aspect almost 100%.

That said, Am I done? No. I'm in no hurry to add or replace anything soon though. I have no outright vacancies begging to be filled finally.

Thanks onhwy61. I agree!
I will be adding some new tweeks to my system in the near future, not that there is anything wrong with what I have now, but want to take it to a new level.
I thought I would mention some of the systems I heard in showrooms that I liked: MBL of course is tops for me(sorry to keep bringing it up again), I also liked in the past that is 3-5 years ago, piega c10, kharma, jm labs divas, dynaudio c-4, maggies 20.1. And recently I liked the magico minis and thought the verity fidelio's were amazing but that could have been the electronics and source gerrard tt and all shindo. Also thought the bolzanos were amazing!
So what am I after? I like the omni sound, and am looking forward to hearing the omni speakers that I haven't heard yet. The duevel's, mirage's, ohm's and whatever else is out there.
I will post my new contraption as soon as it's ready and sounds ok, if you don't hear from me then either my ceiling colapsed or I'm too embarassed to post.
Waiting for a shipment of bungee chords.
Just kidding. Ha, if you think I'm nuts now wait till you see the system I am hooking up here in bellevue, if only the doctors understood.
Obviously that man is crazy,
Uh hah, we don't use that kind of language here,
Well what kind of language do you use,
Now now
Well that man is very now now.
Miss those pink panther films.

Hi Pedrillo, you might look into the High Emotion Audio P-7 loudspeaker. Its not fully omni-directional, but its tweeter array is the next best thing, and otherwise a more transparent, faster tweeter than that of the mbl. The speaker has a rear-firing passive radiator, but will need some sort of subwoofer as it is limited to 40Hz. The speaker is easy to drive and very transparent- we are using a set here FWIW.

Atmasphere, I would love to hear these speakers. Maybe someone in NYC has them.
I bet they work well with your amps which to me is a big plus.