A rookie with 10K, seeking advise

There must be some music lovers in your town that will expose you

to options. Ask.

Advice:

Rule #1- Be in no Hurry

Rule #2- Be in no hurry.

Listen to Open Baffle, Electrostatic/Planar, standard box speakers.

Decide which your ears like best for your music. Everyone hears differently

so brand suggestions are just a general direction. 

 

The suggestion of putting the money into room and power treatment

may be your most logical 1st step.

 

The $10k you mention now has little impact on your best path

unless you are different than all the others here making suggestions.

If you are a person who could put a very good system together  for $10k

and then say "Done"! you are different that the rest of the audio world.

 

Some Brands I have heard that made great sound include- Luxman, Pass, 

Line Magnetic, Naim.

 

Speakers are much too personal to begin a list.

 

Enjoy the journey!

 

Magnepan lrs+ with the new magnepan dipole woofer.

Sounds like you have a nice setup already... why do you feel the urge to "upgrade?"  

That said... perhaps a modest sub just to catch that last little bit of low bass, something like an SVS, which has customizable integration so it's all smooth.  

Otherwise, it's usually the speakers to look at first, if you're not satisfied.  And, tech has gotten so good that you don't need to spend the entire 10k... See if there's another type of speaker sound you like better: perhaps the new KLH 5 or the widely heralded Polk m700.  the Polk is about 2k, and likely has a different sound character than your Warfdales... like the KLH 5s also.  These are not outrageously expensive speakers, but are the sort of product that just might "finish" or at least tamp down that urge.  Or what about the 10k top level Warfdales, the Elysian?  If you wanna drop 10k, why not those... ?  But you can actually test drive those Polks or the KLH 5, if you buy 'em from Crutchfield.... they have a good return policy if you're not satisfied.  

Please whatever you do, don't blow that cash on fancy speaker wire or interconnects... you can do a lot better looking at the speakers themselves, first. 

How many records? If starting out, I'd be inclined to stick with digital streaming. Spreading the cost over two sources plus vinyl media is not efficient. 

@llid2 

From my experience, cables dedicated power supply and basically anything on that end of the system changes the listening experience drastically. I agree with David_ten. Power power and power followed by noise. Everything in a system is based on great power, and the endless task of getting rid of noise. Power and noise. Power and noise, end of story in my opinion for creating a good system. I am a professional violinist and can say that without a doubt that elimination of noise (crappy white sound) is what creates an acceptable and somewhat realistic listening experience. Otherwise its all just a non live musical experience.