The BEST system you've ever built !!!!

The best so far for me is my current system:

Sony SCD-1 CD Player
Madrigal CZ-1 Gel 3' balanced interconnect
Mark Levinson 380 pre-amp
Madrigal CZ-1 Gel 3' balanced interconnect
Mark Levinson 335 amp
15' Straight Wire Maestro speaker cable
Vienna Acoustics Mahler speakers

It cost, by my standards, a whole lot of money. But, when I pop in a CD, turn out the lights and sit back, I have the best musical experience I have ever had.

My current rig is: Sonic Frontiers SFT1, Altis 24/96 Reference dac, Assembledge D2D-1, Ortho Spectrum AR200, AudioHarmony Two, 2 NoiseHounds, 2pr of Bybee IC filters, 4 pairs of Audient Technologies Audit/Tactic combo, Electraglide/Transparent power cords, Audioprism Wave Guides, HighPower cable wraps, Nirvana SL/Cardas N ref IC's, Cardas Digital IC's and Golden Ref speaker cable, Blue Circle BC3(Soon to have the Bybee filters installed), Merlin VSM/SE(Also soon to be updated with Bybee filters and Millenium harness), Solidstell rack's(3 and 5 tier), Sound anchor 2 tier amp stand, Noisetrapper CD+ PLC, MGD/ASC pillows, Tube Traps and ShadowCasters, Marigo Crossbow mat, Nordost Pulsar Points and BDR cones and Those Things...whew. If the system went up in smoke, i would'nt do it again. Wopuld you?

Timperry, Go for the Transparent "super" bi-wire, you won't look back. My "super" balanced should arive tommorow.

I'll qualify "best" as being the most musically involving, the one that makes you feel good every time you listen. The source is a Sony 608es player connected to a Cary SLI50 integrated amplifier using the stock Sony supplied interconnect. The speakers are Triad design system 3 which consists of two sealed box two way satellites and a sealed box 70w powered woofer using a 8 in. cone. The speakers rest on Chicago metal stands and the woofer sits in a small cabinet below a TV. Wiring is el-cheapo Radio Shack 4 conducter 16g. with the woofer signal being supplied through the speaker cables. The amplifier and cd player are plugged into a cheap computer power strip. Any attempt at so-called upgrading of cables or cd player has been a failure. This system sounds obscenely good using the cheapest of ancilliaries, makes me wonder about all the fancy high dollar power conditioners/cables/cords used in the rest of the high-end including my Big System which will do many things better but never sound as consistly musical.

My current system,Wadia 861 running synergistic designers reference balanced .Active sheilding {new updated ) Power cable is custom power top gun.Power is pass x350 with top gun hi current power cord. Both units cd and amp plugged into seperate dedicatted power line 20amp (cd plugged into audioprism foundation 3. Pass x350 running synergistic designers ref. speaker cable 6ft. to Dunlavys sc 4 a,s.
Dunlavys crossx. reworked with ohmite resistors not the cheap sand ones dunlavy uses, along with crescendo film and foil caps all bypassed.The main problem completing the system is the concrete house i live in.( i live on the island of Guam,and topical storms play hell with us so all structures our concrete) I have made big progress and the system is sounding very transparent and detailed.
There our some amazing rigs out there mine may not be the best but anyone comming to Guam please let me know for any withdrawls one might get while on vacation.