With what you know now what components doe you wish you had bought years ago?


After all the biased advertising and sales pitches and after the smoke has cleared what components do you wish you had bought. My daddy would say with hindsight 20/20. With what I've read the G.A.S. Ampzilla comes to mind or a Hafler amp. Good solid word by mouth on the internet. The HK cassette deck CD491 is another I was actually able to acquire 8 years ago and was a solid performer until an electric fault came up. Ive read that shops that sold that and the Dragon compared the two side by side and the HK held its own or would I dare say sounded as good for half the price? I read one time it specd out better. Another one would be the Infinity Kappa 9 speaker. I had a ballsy enough amp to handle it.
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Allison or ADS speakers instead of Bose 901's in the mid 70's. I had a friend who was in love with Bose, bought a pair and convinced me to do the same.
More efficient speakers.  Since the late 80's I've own nothing power hungry speakers and powerful amps cost powerful money.
I have/had the hafler DH 200 and 101 preamp. The hafler s--- is rock solid. I had wanted a bryston amp/preamp. Well, i found a bryston 1b- mc (built- in moving coil amp!) for all of $300.00 on ebay.

i have a pair of infinity 6kappa speakers. If i had to do it again. I would get the 7kappas.
Quad ESL, Eminent Technology LFT-6, Garrard 401, Garrott Brothers-modified Decca, Townshend Audio Rock Reference (this last one not from lack of knowledge, but lack of necessary $ ;-) .