Avalon Eidolon and Krell, good match or not?

I don't know if mine is bigger but that's irrelevant and only a concern if you're insecure about yours.

What matters is I've owned more equipment than you've heard.

Thanks.

Have a nice holiday guys...obviously your happy with your gear and sense of musicality. Funny though, if in fact some of you have attended a great music hall, that your sense of what sounds real is so different. Anyway, enjoy and I hope you get out and hear some live music close up...maybe you'll come around yet!

Interestingly I almost wrote the same response Dave_b posted, I have been a regular attendee of th concerts @ Davis in SF and Herbst theater for many years.

I have experience seating @ different sections but the sound that I heard in those events in my opinion is a far cry from what Krell or Audio Research VT200 can do.

Live sound is impossible to recreate fully at home. Only certain aspects of the concert experience and at best the general gestalt can be purchased for at will consumption. I have heard many an attempt utlizing various grades and technologies of audio equipment; some do certain music well and fail at another i.e..jazz vs classical. The sense of aliveness and clarity I get with my system excites me...recently I have achieved a synergy that adds smoothness and defintion along with great tonal shadings and expression via new tweaks and cable changes. I am very happy:)

Dave b: i am really missing something, your main list is cables and a cd player but you are the expert because you listen to live music, making your knowledge of hearing better? i am getting older and def do not hear as well as when i was younger but i do know what to listen for and what sounds good to me. this notion that live music is the ultimite and only way to truely hear music is pure bull started by those who feel they are elitists. every live hall some how alters the sound by it's shape, size, demensions and fixtures. the studio is where it's at. the only pure true way for an artist to create exactly what he/she/they are going for (although there are some great recordings done in odd places that sound fantastic). that's where the greatest music has been made, that's what i am intrested in hearing. you love live muic, great but this hobbie is about quality pre-recorded sound in your home.