2021 audio system wish list

Break in my new AMG Teatro cartridge and Enjoy the Music

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Tom

I'd like to try some Iso-Pucks between my dowel-legged speakers and the hardwood floors.

Some of the most fundamental changes to my system building in a decade are happening right now, at the end of 2020. I am updating essential characteristics of my systems, and making changes to the genres of equipment that I will use in system building. I have three reviews underway that have been transformational in terms of giving new direction to the type of equipment I will use in reviewing and personal listening.

Barring a truly radial change technologically, some genres (not brands, but genres) of equipment going forward I will no longer consider worthy of my time/effort in reviewing, which speaks to the profundity of the changes. Over the years I have attempted to be open to a wide variety of genres of equipment, but the current circumstances are leading inexorably to elimination of some classes of gear - they simply have been eclipsed to such a degree that their internet weaknesses now overshadows their potential strengths. 

I did not foresee this six months ago; a lot has changed in a relatively short period of time. Things will become public as the reviews are published in 2021. It's been an exhausting end to 2020 (Before Christmas I contracted Covid-19 and double pneumonia. I was hospitalized for three days, but am on the mend.) for me as a system builder, but I feel as though many years of dogged determination and unpaid work are bringing systemic changes that will both allow me to work more efficiently and make higher grade systems. 

Expanding my system now that I got it setup just right.

1) Getting a second AHB2 amp (ordered and arriving in January)
2) UltraCap LPS 1.2 for microRendu (ordered coming in February)
3) RAAL SR1a Headphone to pair with AHB2(s) (maybe in January)
4) AudioByte VOX | ZAP | HUB
5) Halo May KTE

^ glad to hear that you recovered from COVID.

My last change is so surprizing and unorthodox like all my other devices, it will be one of the last change i think...I speak of it in my thread....

When you begin to listen to music and were no more being obsessed by unsatisfaction this is the sign that your actual S.Q. is more than good...

I own now a modest system so good that i dont want any upgrade , it will be at extraordinary cost anyway to improve it really... Thanks to my embeddings controls...

Then my dream for most of my life, a very good sound system is becoming real this year.... 2 years of intense listening experiments and device controls installation make me think that it is not so much the electronic components upgrade that make S.Q. increase but for most of us, unable to afford very, very costly products, it is, more often than not, the controls embeddings that works miracles...And after all my work i dont give a dam for a 100,000 dollars system really... 😁

When instrumental timbre naturalness and 3-d imaging is there an upgrade is elusive at best or illusory at worst....

Better system than mine are plethora but are they rightfully embed? are they working at their optimal level? And even if they are better and at their optimal working being rightfully embedded, i will not be frustrate at all with mine now anyway unable to afford them... Law of diminushing returns works for all...

The truth is really when you are unable to cut the power of your system before sleeping it is because you are at the end of the road...Only unsatisfied people chase their tail unable to really reach the optimal working with their audio system... What i call a rightful triple embeddings...

I speak my message for the modest audiophile that will read this thread, i want to give him real hope instead of the pit money upgrading fallacy chasing by most ...

Dont upgrade anything , embed everything before....

After that you will be able to think about that future possible upgrade with a smile, listening your music with a really cool brain and you will know if an upgrade is valuable or not, for any component in your system....

Before that you will be in the sellers and reviewers hypnotizing market being conditioned at your risk....




Dont throw me the rock, i am only the messenger...



To answer the OP question : My wish is new inspiration for creating at peanut cost another device controls of my own if it is possible.... But in any case i am happy....

Happy new year and God may give you health with music.....
😊