Addiction to Brand

When it comes to tubes, I'm a fan of old Amperex, Siemens & Telefunken... as well as new production SED power tubes.

When it comes to electronics, I enjoy and trust Aesthetix, McIntosh & Conrad Johnson.

I love my Harbeth M-40.1 speakers. I like & have owned many Dynaudio speakers (Audience, Contour & Confidence lines).

I avoid SimAudio, Musical Fidelity and YBA.

Electronics wise I'm mad about McCormack. My absolute dream system would be all McCormack taken to the Ultra Platinum level. If possible all ICs would be McCormack Wonderlinks too. I'd have a McCormack Ultra Platinum SST-1 -> Ultra Platinum DAC-1 -> Ultra Platinum TLC-1 -> pair of Ultra Platinum DNA .5 or DNA-1 monoblocks depending on the speakers. That would be sonic heaven for me.

The dream system for the basement would be all Kavent. I have mostly Kavent in my main system right now and am very happy with them.

Speaker wise I'm addicted to KEF.

Subwoofers: Velodyne

Other amp favorites are: Nelson Pass Threshold, Pass Labs

Digital player favorites: higher end Pioneer Elite

I don't have exposure to the more expensive brands mentioned above so these are my addictions right now.

I am not familiar well with many brands and have no addiction to any but I do like Lamm, Rowland, Nottingham, Purist Audio, Custom Power Cord Co. and better Nakamichi decks.

It's Proac speakers for me.

In practice, Jadis. Own three of their integrateds.

In theory, Audio Note. Every time I hear their stuff, I feel like I'm closer to music than with most any other brand I've come across. While I own an AN CD player, given my enthusiasm, you'd expect me to go the whole hog.