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What's your High End best buy/unknown components?

There seem to be so many choices in high end audio products and only the most popular (reccomended/marketed) products are the one that sell. It would be interesting to compile a list of components that have not received as much exposure in the press or not been reviewed or listed as "reccomended" or heavily marketed that are truly excellent or best buys(not necessarily inexpensive) in audio. Nice to hear some dealers' comments since they are exposed to more components than we consumers.
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cdc
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Source brand loudspeakers.
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upstateaudio
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LAT International AC Power Cords
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gliderguider
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Here's another vote for Ric Cummins' wire. I have his Pursang interconnects and speaker cables, and I find it hard to even imagine better cable.

One other product worth mentioning is the NOH transformer passive from Bent Audio. Based on the S&B TX-102 transformer, this thing smoked my SimAudio P-5 for 1/3 the price. John Chapman, the designer, is as nice to deal with as Ric Cummins - the two of them exemplify the "high-end" in people as well as gear.
tbg
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No question my H-Cat preamp. In my experience with at least 20 top preamps, none even approaches the revolutionary device.
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