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I'm interested in hearing what "the best" systems sound like, where to go?

I have my system sounding pretty good now with a wide sound stage and good depth and imaging. I hear faint details that I have never heard in songs before. It took me three amps, two CD players, two sets of speakers and room treatments to get where I am. But the rabbit hole being what it is....I can't help but wonder....do I have the best it can be? I've been to brick and mortar, high end audio stores, but they don't really have listening rooms. Do any of you know of a place that has a good selection in stock that also has a good listening room to try them out? I would like to hear what is considered "the best". I would like a yard stick to use to determine if I'm getting everything out of the recordings that I can get. Even if it is thousands of dollars outside of my budget, I would like to know what I'm chasing.
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mahgister
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I am very glad that we concur with one another.... Perhaps we are right ….I think also that this pianist produce a quality level interpretation on all his recordings without many rivals... I had listen to all his recordings with comparisons in all case.... His mastery of tone and colors shades make him so...Others may be sometimes more intensely expressive or virtuoso but very few can produce the same  subtle colors scales...  :)
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I promise this won’t take long but getting back to the subject of the thread for just a moment I would like to try to express how much better the best system I ever heard, you know, the one that’s a couple Metro stops away, is compared to the next best system I ever heard. It’s like night and day. It’s light years ahead. It will make you think seriously about getting out of this hobby altogether and finding another hobby, maybe model trains 🚂 or macrame. 
glupson
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"...the one that’s a couple Metro stops away............... It’s light years ahead."
Those are some very long metro stops. What a commute it must be.
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mahgister
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It will make you think seriously about getting out of this hobby altogether and finding another hobby, maybe model trains 🚂 or macrame.

It is like dreaming about the most beautiful woman in history and thinking I cannot loved her, she will not be mine, then i dont want to be in love with my girlfriend no more...

The problem is how to makes the audio system you already own a system able to reproduce piano real sound quality in an approximate manner so well made that you will be in heaven listening to it ?

Saying the King Saoud of Arabia own a better system than mine has no real sense, it is a fact lacking his proper context....Of course some system are better than mine...Even the King Saoud would be jealous of some other audiophile’s system....They are no point to boast about a system... The point is how to makes any system good and mine in particular ?

" The organ i was seeing makes mine uninteresting " -anonymus
glupson
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"They are no point to boast about a system... The point is how to makes any system good?"
It is simple. Just boast about your own system.
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