Potential upgrade path…


My current system is:

Rogue st 100 dark amps (biamping 2)

Don Sachs 2 preamp

Aurender N10

Holo May KTE dac

Legacy Audio Signature SE speakers 

if you had $35k or so to upgrade what would you do?

Thanks. 

backdoor

Ozzy Certainly a dedicated room would be the ultimate. And in my current room I don’t think I can do much to improve what I’m getting. 

I have always believed that given what I know now is that I would rather have a top notch system in a large walk in closet than a big system in an big common area. But it can be a small system in a large area as well. 

 

Assuming you have no choice of location: there are additional corollaries. A carefully “right sized “ system placed in your venue could sound fantastic. So, if that is the space, much smaller speakers with a small sub and top quality electronics could be a fantastic system.

 

The advantage of a “smaller” system is that it can be higher quality components because less power and smaller speakers can be involved. We can talk about this more. But I would look at some really high quality stand mounted speakers… like Sonus Faber Olympica, and an Audio Reseach Vsi75 integrated amp. The Aurender N10 is great. You could go for a small subwoofer later.

Anyway, the point is carefully chosen and appropriately scaled and you can have a simply stunning system. The problem can be trying to put “big and powerful” stuff in an inappropriate setting. You want higher quality / appropriate sized equipment.

So sounds like your 35k would be better invested elsewhere. How about a super high end headphone rig?

Thanks for the suggestions and comments. I will look into a dedicated room but I’m not too optimistic. Thanks again. 

@backdoor , I don't think you need to spend $35K to get a nice upgrade by addressing your room. You don't need to replace it either. I would recommend getting a room kit from www.sonitususa.com. Easy peezey, lemon squeezy. The owner is Anthony Grimaldi and he is an authority on acoustics. The kits makes it so easy a chimp can do it. I followed Anthony's acoustic "recipe" before I knew he had kits, you can see the pics in my system. If I were starting over it would have been easier to just get the kit. He has kits for 2 channel as well as HT: