Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui

@devinplombier - This is a thread where folks are celebrating with a poster who recently retired and has already "made the last upgrade to my system for enjoyment in retirement".  The OP isn't looking for a new server so the unsolicited interjection of a sales pitch in this thread is, at a minimum, bad form.

Also, this has nothing to do with how good or not the products are that audiotroy is peddling, but rather that he chooses to relentlessly peddle them on these forums as if it were his own private marketing playground.  Also, it is usually doesn't go like, "hey, consider giving this a try", but more often a harder sell, like, "we have tried what you own and it doesn't hold a candle to the 432Evo Aeon," along with an implication that the sales target's substandard system needs their product in order to achieve some acceptable level of performance, i.e., "if you want to take your system's sound quality up a notch".  It usually comes across as audiotroy telling others what they need to do, and for self-serving reasons.

Congrats @jsalerno277 !

I've had my Tambaqui for a bit now and it continues to amaze!  I also have Vivid speakers, Giya G2s2s and love them.  Plus, my electronics, Audionet, are similar to your Burmester in that they are clean, fast, resolving and non fatiguing!  I am curious do you run Roon or Conductor (if you are streaming through an Aurender)?  I am also pretty sure you heard the Grimm MU1 streamer with the Tambaqui if you were at Bill's.  My best sound running Roon is through the MU1 into my Tambaqui.  I have also upgraded the internal ethernet cable in the Grimm to KS Realization through GTT and that made a noticeable improvement.  .  enjoy the Tambaqui!!!

+1 @mitch2 

@fastfreight   I run the Conductor app.  I did not do head to head comparisons of the Grimm with my Aurender N200.  I did hear it running my old Wyred and the Tambaqui when I did that head to head comparison, but unless I conduct a comparison of the Grimm to the Aurender, I will never know.  I am at a point where I am happy with the performance of my system.  So I will not do that comparison for, from what I have read on the Grimm, it will leave me wanting.   I will also not move up the Aurender line.  One reviewer (I do not remember his name or publication) used the acronym FOMO - fear of missing out.  I never have fallen victim to this.  You have a phenomenal system.  
 

@benzman I think you may have asked me the question before.  While I cannot give you a percentage, I can attest the Townsends perform as advertised and as reviewed with improvements in bass, staging, imaging and detail.  

@jsalerno277 Congratulations on your retirement, definitely a milestone, I remember mine. Sounds like you’re headed to eternity with one fine-sounding system. I can only drool over a Mola Mola Tambaqui. Enjoy, for however many years you have left before singing with the saints in heaven above.

Congratulations on retirement! Life is just beginning and enjoy your system. You earned this. I certainly don't mind coming over and listening to your beautiful system and enjoying some Barter House ORPHaN BARREL Kentucky Bourbon.