Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking?

A intuitive long shot a couple years ago from Craig's List satisfied my long search for main's: A church had a pair of mid-1980's Yamaha SX-1 cathedral organ monitors that turned out to be the best self-powered main's I ever heard (after a few hours of old school re-conditioning).

Each has 320 watt SS amps, 15 inch bass drivers in the lower unit's, and three independently facing upper units (forward and L/R at 30 degrees), each loaded with one 6 inch mid and 2 ultra-smooth tweeters. I adopted them for keeps after auditioning the speakers' "voices". They're perfect for a 30 x 30 room.

47 Lab Flatfish transport. The crowning finish to my system.

Studer C37, built between ca. 1961- 1970. around 1800 pieces were sold.

When I got my Pass X250/X1 combo I knew I had found my brand of amp. I since upgraded the x250 to an X250.5 and I had my X1 completely redone at Pass to update it to current. Pass gear has put an end to my search for electronics as did Talk Electronics with their Thunder 6 CD player. I've been waiting 8 years for this player and received it last year. I truly feel I may never require a new cd player again.

My Coincident Pure Reference Extremes matched with the Frankenstein 300b MkII. No reason for me to look any further.Now I get to sit back and listen :)

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