Replaced Everything, New Gears waiting to be installed...

Well, I went for it! I replaced everything this year, purchasing at the top-end of my budget, hoping to stave off upgraditus for a few years. The equipment has been arriving, and the boxes are piling up. This weekend I will put it all together. Can’t wait...

New stuff (most still in boxes):

• Accuphase E-380 Integrated Amp
• REL Vintage 98 Subwoofer
• Thorens TD-1601 Turntable (Walnut)
• Nagaoka MP-200 Cartridge
• Schitt Skoll Phono Preamp
• Balanced XLR Cables Turntable > Preamp > Integrated
• Rose HiFi 150b Streamer/DAC (put in service recently)
• Grant Fidelity B-283 (Vintage) Tube Buffer w/ fresh Mullard Tubes : MAY place in the Tape Monitor Loop to tame the HiFi Rose if needed
• Paradigm Reference Studio 40 v2 (a personal favorite, bought and put in service recently)
• Shunyata Research Defender Power Conditioner
• also replacing all interconnects and speaker cales. Custom made Cardas and Morgami.
• ... and I crafted a new Rack to hold/house it all.

I thought about bringing it into service piece-by-piece, and thus seeing the incremental difference. But I kind of didn’t want to open the boxes...weird.

Many thanks to the Audiogon community; this forum and the occasional thread greatly informed my ideas and purchases. Will report back.