Your greatest high end audio purchase!!!

Adequately finished open concept with refurbished IRS beta and twin Yamaha Pc5002m amplifiers. I smile… a lot ! 

Cheers 

My greatest ever audio purchase, it has got to be these two amps. The Pass Labs XA200.5 was the personal amps of Mark @ Reno Hifi; as you fellas know, Mark has retired and is now enjoying the easy life; when I drove to Mark’s shop in Phoenix, he told me that Pass specifically made this pair for him, and that it was the last pair of XA200.5 amps to leave the factory. How I got this lucky, I don’t know. I didn’t think I’d ever own anything like this, but once in a while, luck strikes.

My other purchase is Lamm ML-1.1 tube amps. Prior to the Lamm amps, I have a heavily modded and hopped up pair of SF Power 3 amps that Chris at Parts Connexion cooked-up, and they are now running KT-120s. I like them. Then I got these Lamm ML1.1 amps. While it doesn’t have the sheer grunt in bass punch and transient snap, I’ve never heard music like this before. To sum it up in two words: magic and ethereal.

Yeah, I think I was lucky alright... Have a prosperous and a Happy New Year fellas!

It was my simultaneous introduction to the worlds of lossless streaming and active amplification a few years back (<5) via my Akurate System Hub (streamer) and Akurate Exaktbox-i (D/A, 8 channels of amplification).  As part of the same upgrade, a Roon Nucleus was added, completing the package. As my former system had been non-functioning due to a bad amp and resulting blown midrange for some time, this (including a new midrange driver and rejuvenation of my AV 5140s, sans passive crossovers) was life-transforming, even eclipsing my entry in the 1980s with a Luxman L450 integrated, Nakamichi LX-5, and Pioneer/Pickering turntable/cartridge. 

For me it's my speakers - Sonus faber Olympica Nova Vs.  I love their sound and in my opinion look nice. 

Lumin X1.

I couldn't believe how much better (sound quality wise) it is over everything that came before it.

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