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List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid

How did you proportion your system spending? You can choose to list by component name or type, and by the the price you actually paid new or used, OR by the original full retail price. Just be consistent. 

For example, by price paid mine would be-

Millercarbon: Tone arm, speakers, phono stage, motor, cartridge, turntable, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), speaker cable, power cords, room treatment and tweaks, amp, interconnect.

But by full retail price when new mine would be:

Millercarbon: Speakers, speaker cables, tone arm, Cones (rack, Shelf, etc), phono stage, power cords, cartridge, motor, interconnect,  amp, room treatment and tweaks (fuses, ECT, HFT, etc).


  
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millercarbon OP
12,531 posts
 
Uh oh, can't hardly believe this but just realized I forgot to include my five subwoofers! The four DBA subs I built together with the one I had would vault speakers to #1. Although, just to be consistent, if adding subs and speakers together then should probably add motor, arm and cartridge to the turntable, in which case then going by retail when new it would be:

Turntable, speakers, speaker cables, Cones/rack/Shelf, phono stage, power cords, interconnects, amp, room treatment and tweaks (fuses, ECT, HFT, PHT, Cable Elevators, etc).
dseltz
161 posts
 
By price paid:

Speakers 38%. Used
Amp 19% New
Pre-amp 9% New
DAC 8% New
TT 7% Demo
cones/rack/etc 7% New
Streamer 6% Demo
power cords/interconnects/etc 5% New/Demo
Power conditioner 1% New
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jtcf
1,617 posts
 
By retail price : amp,cdp,preamp,speakers,subwoofers,room treatments,cables,headphones,tubes,tweaks
adg101
1,062 posts
 
Amp, speakers, preamp, cables, turntable, power dist., CDP/DAC, room treatment, tweaks, UDP, streamer, cartridge, equipment stand, phono preamp, record cleaner, cassette deck and headphones. CD’s and vinyl would be ahead of amp.

All this for only $500... just ask my wife.
petg60
1,486 posts
 
Hi,
by retail,
Power amp, TT motor unit, Speakers, Tonearm, Cartridge, Line preamp, SACD player, Audio rack (not as total), R2R, Phono stage, Cables (not as total) Tuner, MD deck, others.
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