Which Would You Choose?

Without a doubt  Music Fidelity M8s-500s  extraordinary  good amp.

axpert, I just wanted to make a correction for you, OCC single crystal copper is 6n's not 7n's, The silver OCC is 7n's.

ghdprentice,

The Michi Gear is definitely not mid-fi, I guess you haven't heard it, I have and it's phenomenal sounding, The monoblocks sound incredible and even the integrated the X5 which is around 12,000 Canadian is incredible sounding Dave definitely up to their game that's for sure.

axpert, I just wanted to make a correction for you, OCC single crystal copper is 6n's not 7n's, The silver OCC is 7n's.

@grislybutter 

@jetter you cannot seriously tell us that anything under 10K is not junk

Absolutely I do think so.

Without doing much thinking, a new Pass xa25 is about $5K.  A set of the new Clayton Shaw Caladan speakers are around $3.5K.  Quicksilver mid monos are $2K a pair as are their preamps.  There are the Schiit products mostly in the $2K and under range.  These are new prices, about half for used.  Many, many others.  In my world these are not junk.

That said, what I tried to put across is that those of us with less expensive systems are having a ton of fun owning and listening to our systems.  And someone asks for a little help with his system which he probably is proud of and some pompous ____ tells him he needs a whole new system.  Not cool.