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Your ship just came in! time to buy new gear..?


Hello,

uncle Arch and Aunt Tilly while on Safari were devoured by hungry Hippos and you alone were named in their will to receive all the available funds in their joint bank accounts which amounts to $56K.

It can be spent on Audio without worries elsewhere in the home, on transportation, or towards family needs.

to over come your grief you decide to buy something audio related.

what component, (LIMIT 2 different items!) aspect, desire, or area gets the money?

BTW, you don’t have to spend every penny of it but the investment has to be aimed at NO more than two different areas, facets, or applications in audio recreation.

is it time to try out some of those $25K per, ICs, and or power cords?

try a handful of those $8K ea., modular rack/amp stands?

commission a head phone designer to make you the best pair of HPs he or she can make for $50k?

contract to build a room addition that will enable near perfect room acoustics?

hire Lady Ga Ga and Tony Benet to perform privately for you.

or be some what less imaginative perhaps and just upgrade this and or that in the existing system?

thanks.

blindjim
n80
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I'll bite, but I can't bring any special expertise to the table. I'd basically just upgrade with the brands in my current but 15 year old system which sounds great to me.

What I'd get:

Aerial Acoustics 20t speakers
Marl Levinson No. 53 monoblocks
Audio Research Ref 10 pre amp

That's more than $56k so I'd have to buy used in order to afford commensurate cables and interconnects.

Of course the government gets about half of that, so if I had to scale down:

Aerial Acoustics 7T speakers
Levinson No. 534
AR LS-28 pre-amp

And I'd still have to buy used.
tooblue
1,922 posts
 
So sorry to hear about your aunt and uncle, that was terrible.
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gawdbless
1,235 posts
 
56k would be put towards student loans, sadly......
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noble100
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     $56K?

Merrill Audio Element 118 GaN mono blocks  $36,000/pr.


Magnepan 20.7 speakers                                $14,450/pr.
                                  Grand Total  with tax =   $53,981.50

    Per the well known and time honored tradition of rewarding hippos that consume relatives that have you included in their wills, I'd convert all left over cash into steaks as a thank you for having my aunt and uncle over to their home for a meal.
Tim
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