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I'm Looking For the Best

I've been sitting on the fence, but now I'm willing to go whole hog and grab the golden ring atop the mountain in the clouds in the house upon the hill. I want the BEST. Not just in your opinion the BEST, but in absolute fact the BEST. Price is absolutely no object. I have terminal audiophilitis and the MDs are only giving me a few decades more to live, so I'm going to splurge. I want something that blows away the competition. I want something that immediately announces to the world that it is the BEST of the BEST. It should be designed by the best engineer and contain the BEST parts. It should remove veils, peer deep into the recording that the musicians see me sitting in the room looking at them play and have so much musicality that Sondheim writes his next score specifically for it to perform.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, but the BEST must have a direct input for an iPod.

Thanks in advance.
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reubent
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oh61,

Well, you obviously already know the best source component as you've asked for an iPod input!

Add to that a multi-enclosure tube amp that uses at least 20 tubes per side. If you are not into tubes, a huge 500+ watts per channel of solid state amp should do. Whatever you do, just make sure it is extremely heavy. If it weighs less than 250 lbs per channel, you've got the wrong amp.

Speakers should have as many drivers as possible. I'm not talking about a line array! Those are usually just fancy 2 ways (using a bunch of the same drives). No, you need at least 5-way speakers. They will need a sub-woofer of about 18" or so, a woofer, mid-woofer, midrange, tweeter and a super tweeter. Make sure the super tweeter is installed on top of the cabinet, especially if the cabinet is over 60" tall.

That's all you need for the worrld best system. Go for it!

Enjoy,

TIC
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uru975
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your favorite radio station playing live recorded classical music or any music that you lie. You have the best musicians, the best halls, its recorded live and it can be sent to your Ipod. What else could you ask for?
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After seeing a bass subwoofer being built into the sub structure of a building, speakers being built at a cost of $300,000 plus for one pair and the nice little WAVAC amp at $350,000 for just the power amp, my suggestion would be to make some appointments with some of the specialty audio designers, higher a few consultants and set your budget at about $5,000,000 plus for the "BEST". But then what could one get for $6,000,000?
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