So you have just won £45M on Euromillions.....

[chebby]

.... and you need some hifi for the new place.

In my new panelled library/study/computer room/den I would assemble something like the following....

Luxman L-509U amplifier.

Harbeth Super HLA 5 speakers (bespoke veneer to match the panelling).

Thorens TD-350 turntable & SME arm

Fully restored Marantz ST-8 tuner (hey we can afford it!) with a jacket to match the panelling also.

Oh yes, a DAC of some kind to plug in the computer for Spotify/iPlayer etc

(In the living room a naimuniti with wallmounted Naim N-Sat speakers and a decent little 26" or 32" telly and Blu-ray/DVD/HDD recorder with Freeview or Freesat. Probably Panasonic.)

This for the bedroom and this for the kitchen. (In scary 1970s yellow probably.)

The AV room/home theatre would be a bespoke 'blank cheque' Bang & Olufsen install to be arranged with the architect. (Well why not?)

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldnt bother with hifi and hitech gadgets/cars etc... I'd get an old sony walkman ... solar rechargeable batteries a fishing rod and a small wooden bungalow in the forest right on the beach on a remote island like the bahamas ...

 

[Anonymous]

id go into a certain shop not far from the centre of kathmandu and buy another pair of socks

 

[chebby]

dim_span:I wouldnt bother with hifi and hitech gadgets/cars etc... I'd get an old sony walkman ... solar rechargeable batteries a fishing rod and a small wooden bungalow in the forest right on the beach on a remote island like the bahamas ...

So you would not be buying up the finest the 1970s could offer?

 

[plastic penguin]

......I'd buy Brooklands museum.

 

[PJPro]

You're right dim_span. But I think I'd throw a small party with a few friends and a guest band....

 

[a91gti]

Mmm the mind boggles. But I'm thinking I'd finish my cdp off with its valve output stage and get valve monoblocs in front of some nice electrostatics for stereo duties.

 

[matthewpiano]

I'd be straight down to UKD and buying a Unison Research turntable, CDE, and valve amps with a pair of Opera floorstanders and spend all my spare time bathing in the most realistic and involving sound I've ever heard. This would be in a dedicated listening room of course.

 

[Anonymous]

chebby:

dim_span:I wouldnt bother with hifi and hitech gadgets/cars etc... I'd get an old sony walkman ... solar rechargeable batteries a fishing rod and a small wooden bungalow in the forest right on the beach on a remote island like the bahamas ...

So you would not be buying up the finest the 1970s could offer?

no ... I'd step up a decade .... an 80's walkman (silver coloured) will do just fine

 

[chebby]

Well I would like to go to New York now and then (1st class with Cunard) and Tokyo and Iceland - and a few other places - and spend a week or two every year at Gidleigh Park but I was hoping to keep this to our hifi/AV millionaire 'wish list' wants.

 

[plastic penguin]

chebby:

Well I would like to go to New York now and then (1st class with Cunard) and Tokyo and Iceland - and a few other places - and spend a week or two every year at Gidleigh Park but I was hoping to keep this to our hifi/AV millionaire 'wish list' wants.

If the liner begins with a 'T', give it a miss....

 

[the record spot]

I'd get that wee Tesco number at sixteen pound.

 

[Craig M.]

45 million? only pjpro is aiming high enough!

i'd also be found on a tropical island, but i'd have a surf board and gemma atkinson

 

[matthewpiano]

I'd have to have a beautiful Bosendorfer concert grand piano as well... but I wouldn't swap my lady for any other, no matter how much money I had.

 

[Craig M.]

you've made me feel bad now!

 

[John Duncan]

Firstly I'd give a few bob to the bloke who dipped out of the syndicate because he was skint.

 

[a91gti]

This is a touch over my usual budget but I'm thinking a ridiculously expensive valve amp, solid gold cables and some very tasty electrostatics.

 

[Anonymous]

I would spend it all on cables. They make all the difference you know.

 

[Anonymous]

I'd travel the world with my partner and go to as many types of music concert I could find...

...I'd start with Hayley Westenra at Peterborough cathedral in November. Gotta start somewhere, might as well be close and I could swing in after dropping my notice into work. Just need to remember to add the bit about going to work for a competitor in the letter...

 

[Anonymous]

I would get the best ear drops money could buy!

 

[Anonymous]

I'd buy a decent listening room:

Sail off to the Med, then worry about the hifi.

 

[Anonymous]

Antistatic:I would spend it all on cables. They make all the difference you know.

MAINS cables, I trust.

 

[True Blue]

I would have a dedicated cable run direct from my nearest Nuclear Power station (smoother electricity than coal).

Invest (buy at the moment!!) into my local football team.

Am afraid I would have to get the listening house sorted first though. Then I would spend the next year auditioning top end systems and thoroughly enjoying my new "job"

 

[fatboyslimfast]

I would buy a house in the middle of nowhere, with it's own solar/wind farm a few miles away.

It would have a 2 barns (stone or brick built) that I can convert into a listening room with hifi kit/music warehouse on the back, and the other into a full size pool with sauna.

I think I might just have to employ a trained massuse/pamperer as well.

Kit?

Well, that would be decided once I've gone through the warehouse enough times to work out what kit I like.

I could even write about it in a publication or something... 😉

And yes, the letter to the boss would be a totally enlightened document.

 

[Anonymous]

fatboyslimfast:the letter to the boss would be a totally enlightened document.

I'd just send a postcard