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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.
onhwy61
zaikesman
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Onhwy61 sez:
"What's with all you people recommending live music? Are you on drugs? Live music doesn't have the soundstage depth, the layering, the upper octave sweetness, nor the outside the speaker imaging that even a not the BEST, but decent system can provide...Seriously, live musicians in a real hall would be an audiophile step backwards, IMHO."
Michael Fremer, in his latest Stereophile column, writing on the live sound of the Dallas Symphony in the McDermott Hall of the Meyerson Center (with a totally straight face):
"Best described as 'tube-like' in the highs and mids, with the weight and solidity of solid-state on bottom."
To which I say: In your ear, Onhwy61! You wouldn't know THE BEST live sound if it hit you upside your head with your 'decent system'!
calgarian5355
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Since price is no object, I suggest you invite Tina Turner in to sing you "Simply the Best". A personal show for you in your audio room with sound that is so realistic that it's obviously the best! Enjoy!
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onhwy61 OP
5,288 posts
 
I'm not surprised by Fremer's comments since Meyerson was designed in the shape of a WE 310A tube. It's a fact.

Tina Turner, I like that.
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