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

Audio Research Reference 1 preamp, PH-2 phono preamp, M300 Mk II power amplifiers, Sim Audio W10 power amplifiers, Infinity IRS Beta speakers, Theta Miles CD player (as a transport), Theta Gen Va 24/96 DAC, SOTA Star Sapphire turntable/SME V tonearm/Benz Micro H2 cartridge
McIntosh MR7083 tuner, XLO Signature 2.1 balanced interconnects, 1.1 RCA interconnects and 5.1 speaker wire for front end and planars, type 1 interconnect and type 5 speaker wire for woofer connections, Kimber Illuminations D-60 digital wire, Synergistic AC Master coupler power cords. The system is a work in progress, but I am very happy with it.

My system contained from 4 pieces:
-- Yeshchenko custom built 6-string guitar with strings made of sheep's blood tubes,
-- Weltmeister 120-bass Accordion,
-- Winston Trombone used as bass,
-- and finaly the Snare drum with hat cymbals(do not remember the brand)
-- Microphones -- none
-- Speakers -- none.

I was playing Weltmeister.

Nice one, Mara. Was that the dual mono Weltmeister? (a great piece back then!)

Not complicated or expensive. Redgum RGi120s integrated amplifier, Arcam Alpha 8 cd player, Soliloquy 6.3 loudspeakers, Kimber 4TC ( biwired, wbt banana @ amp end , Kimber postmaster @ speaker end), Acoustic Zen Matrix interconnects, Brooklyn Audio power cable @ amp. Very simple but very musical. I finally took the plunge and sent my home theater out to pasture. I am happy that I did. I will soon add a power cord to the cd player. I love listening to the music and not thinking about what I need to improve upon in my system.

Jhightower, I agree that the Wadia and SM-1 are a nice match, I used cardas golden reference interconnect, I own a 830, but looking to upgrade to a 860 or 861..how does the BAT match up?