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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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chaz
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In the mid to late 90's or early 2000’s , a radio station decommissioned some Technics SL-1200 Turntables with Stanton cartridges, a friend who worked there got one, he was going to sell it to me cheap, but after he heard it he decided to keep it.
This was my first experience with these turntables, but this combo was another epiphany for me. Never new how good these direct drive turntables were. I had been using a Linn Sondek and Systemdek belt drives. This Technics blo them both, out of the water. Had high end Ortophon , Shure, Goldman, AT, Nagoaka and other cartridges over the years, but this combo.
So Technics SL-1200 and Stanton cartridge, the ones that got away!

chaz
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Dynaco was the name of the Tube Amp with the AR Turntable experience.Bang for the buck, system. That influenced my search, for sound.
 Dynaco Tube Amp.
AR Turntables 
gumbedamit
109 posts
 
Harmon Kardon Signature 1.5 Power Amp $450 and a set of Magnepan MGllla's which i got for -$1100 . I made money from the sale of MG2.6's. Long story short. I shipped the 2.6's and they were damaged. I had a $2500 insurance policy placed on them. Replaced the damaged tweeters and made out well...
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pehare
835 posts
 
bar none - in 2011 my new Music Reference RM10 MkII amp bought direct from Roger Modjeski for $1950 via 1-day Fedex delivery from CA to FL.
fleschler
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Magic Eraser "sponge" for cleaning my Benz Ruby III cartridge.  It polishes the stylus and costs under $1.  I've been using it for 8 years now.  That's a bargain.      Other more expensive bargains is purchase of my two sets of speakers, the Legacy Focus for $2500 and Signature IIIs for $1600.  Compares to 4X to 5X more expensive speakers (but with superior bass, lower on the Focuses, tighter and punchier on the Sig IIIs). 
The Synergistic Research HFTs.  I use 32 which eliminated the need for front and rear quadradic diffusion panels which can be very expensive (Acoustic Fields or Vicoustic brands not cheap GIKs).    
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