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Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned?

Yes, the CJ ART, various Audio Research were all great...but I do remember lower priced items that gave much pleasure for their price.

In no order, The Large Advent,  DQ-10, Nakamichi SR receivers,  inexpensive Nordost cables, many tuners giving good vibes vis "FREE" music.  Also, in a different way, the Nakamichi TM radios and SoundSpace systems. 

There was a solid state ARC pre that was very good....ls-12?

And I do  remember "free" listening at some friends homes/systems that were great values. I was exceedingly lucky to have a best friend that bought most of my gear when I was "moving on".  It gave me the chance to listen to what I had had compared to what I currently had....at least once what I had sold to him was better than what my replacement gear was...........the old "live and learn". 





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danvignau
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For my grad school system, my stacked wood Advents powered by my Phase Liner 400 worked so well that the local Infinity dealer had me bring it to his outdoor, overnight party.  He furnished an Ariston RD 80, with a Mark Levinson head amp and Signet two wand turntable, that I bought from him for $150.  I still have those pieces, with the Supex 900Mark IV, plus my old Kenwood marble TT used with an SME, at the time.
therobert
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Combination of NAD 326BEE amp and Monitor Audio GR10 speakers - Amazingly good sound for the price. Still kind of wish I hadn't sold them, but, unfortunately, don't have the space for more than one system.
digsmithd
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Superphon revelation basic back in the 80's/with bk st140...upgraded vol pots in that thing and HS it sounded good.

My diy ic’s are sounding great for under $73 bucks parts/materials.

quincy
356 posts
 
A recent upgrade to a pair of SVS woofers added to existing full range floor standing speaker's!
Both for under a grand!
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artemus_5
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There are 2 that stand out. Both are amps. The 1st was in 1978, I bought a Harmon Kardon 730 receiver with Original large advents. I never realized how good that thing was until I went to replace it. The Luxman I bought to do so was so anemic, I ended up selling it and repairing the HK which was still going up to about 2000. I powered ut up a while back and was shocked at how BIG the sound was. It will still better a lot of separates today.

The 2nd is a Bob Latino "Dynaco" ST-70. I bought it because it was cheap and I wanted to try a tube amp to see what all the fuss was about. It replaced a $4300 CJ SS amp. That was 10 yrs ago. It STILL in my system today. Looking at my system it is totally outclassed. I just knew that the CJ CT5 preamp was going to show all the flaws of this little amp. Nope. It sounds even better.

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