HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM?


I want to know for those who have arrived got their best system together. What is the story behind how you ended up with your gear and will you be happy for a long time with it.

calvinj

@akg_ca i definitely understand how you feel. But sometimes you can get to a point of just being happy.  I’m in that place with my system.  If I won a billion right now. I wouldn’t change any of my components. Maybe I would get a better room. lol. But components I’m happy sometimes you have to allow yourself to be happy. To me that can be your dream system. 

@decooney i got lucky with my gato fm6 speaker. Even though my dac and amp total are 4 times the price of my speaker. But I put more emphasis on the electronics than most. But the design and performance of my gato with my all Infigo  electronics and cabling has put me in my own audio nirvana. I wouldn’t change any of it. I’m in a great place. Just finding new music at this point and enjoying. 

because it’s built on performance not perception.

@calvinj , agreed. Listening with your ears, not eyes or mind, is the way to go.

@calvinj "i got lucky with my gato fm6 speaker..."

Absolutely, and can imagine it so. By happenstance I’ve implemented some of those exact Scanspeak drivers in a few custom speaker builds I played with just to see how it might turn out. "Very musical and engaging" is how the new owner of the speakers described it to me when he auditioned them and bought them.

I resold the pair to the new owner for the cost of the parts - it was a fun project. Was still nice to listen to even using lower grade front-end and amplification fwiw.