Your Future System, within reach

Slipknot: I thought that was you. While I thought the system sounded too bright for my tastes that day, I was interested enough by the table to pay Lloyd a return visit yesterday, and I got to hear that table demonstrated properly. I was afraid you and Rush would be encouraging me to do this! Thank you for the kind offer--since my wife's family is in the Riverton/Palmyra and Medford areas, and we go to visit fairly often, I might be able to take you up on it!

Currently own Maggie 3.6r speakers, Levinson 334 amp, ARC LS15 preamp with NOS tubes, Meridian 504 tuner, Audio Magic XXX power conditioner, awaiting delivery of APL3910 CD player, have Silversmith Silver ICs, Harmonix Studio Master powercords, and Acoustic Zen Hologram II speaker cables. Would like to get a Lamm M1.2 (or 2.2) amp (used), possibly a Supratek Sauvignon preamp, and upgrade speaker cables to Pranawire or Kubala Sosna. I know I might be dreaming. Realistically, I will upgrade the speaker cables and possibly have the Maggies tweaked.

In the next 12 to 18 months I will have the all of the Audio Research Reference items. That would be:

Reference 3 preamp (or Ref 4 if it is out by then)

PH-7 phono preamp

Reference CD-7

...if a local set of Infinity IRS V or Genesis 201 comes available at an irresistable price, I'd probably jump on them too.

Depends on what you feel the biggest breakthroughs have been. For me the Avalon Eidolon speaker system was the last gotta have it breakthrough product. Magico systems could be pushing the envelope though.

Recently: Richard Foster's article in the back of issue 45 of Hi>Fi+ shows a great deal of promise for digital media. He remarks briefly on his hearing a sample of 352.8kHz of DXD in an extremely well voiced in room at Bert van dr Wolf's Northstar Consult studio (www.northstarconsult.nl).

On the analog side the development of the magnetically driven (spindled) turntables may be a worthwhile advancement over my ridiculously inexpensive Well Tempered/home brew suspension setup.