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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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mmporsche
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Revised for better analysis:

Voxativ 9.87 loudspeakers - $34K / 40%
Voxativ 211 integrated amp - $18K / 21.4%
VPI prime Signature Turntable $5.5K / 6.5%
PS audio DAC with bridge II - $5K / 5.9%
KL audio record cleaning machine $5K / 5.9%
Cables - $5K / 5.9%
PS audio regenerator - $4k / 4.7%
Audio rack - $3.5K / 4.2%
Parasound JC3+ Phono Preamp $3.3K / 3.9%
Oppo CD - $1K / 1.2%
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millercarbon OP
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My spider senses are tingling mmporsche, and my finely honed Holmesian deductive powers lead me to the inescapable conclusion a man with a VPI Prime Signature Turntable most likely is using a phono cartridge, a mysteriously missing ingredient. Surely a man with a $5k DAC and $5k record cleaning machine must have at least as much in his cartridge??
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boxer12
8,656 posts
 
Power amp 14% / Wire (IC’s PC’s) 12% / TT 11% / Preamp 9% / Conditioners 8% / Speakers 8% / DAC 6% / Arm 6% / Phono amp 5% / Cartridges 4% / Transport 3% / Stands 3% / Speed control 3% / Feet 3% / Sub 2% / Room Acoustics 1.5% / Outlets 1% / Risers .5%  
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