What’s your latest high-end audio purchase?


What’s your latest high-end audio purchase?  It can be cables, tweaks, components etc.  Also, please share why you purchased, what it replaced, and any additional tips and insights regarding your purchase.  
 

I hoping for this to be enjoyable and educational, so please be civil of other’s opinions and choices.

kennyc

"high-end audio"? Define your term ;-) . A plain ol' audio purchase isn't good enough? I don't like the term audio anyway, it's too general. Hi-fi has more meaning, in terms of the reproduction of music, a very specific thing. 

Netgear Broadcom chip based modem, replaced Arris Intel chip modem, also has external power supply vs internal with Arris, allows use of linear power supply. Intel chip modems have much higher jitter.  Substantial improvement in sense of ease relaxation, especially in consideration of relatively low cost of modem and lps.

 

The other recent purchase was Duelund CAST PIO tinned copper caps replacing Audyn True Copper Max in custom build 300B monoblocks, the CAST PIO relegates all other audiophile caps I've used to distant second place.

I bought back my Yamamoto Dac from the person I sold it too 5 years previously.

Main system:

Neodio Origine S2 CD Player

Tchnerov Utimate Slim RCA interconnects

 

2nd system:

Tchnerov Reference 2 RCA interconnects & Digital AES/EBU cable

i finally got my van alstine preamp a few months ago.  i heard it for about 25 minutes and haven't been able to get back to listening to it since.  makes me very sad.