Question What's your dream system?

[podknocker]

Let's have some fun and dream a little. Here's my 'Dear Santa' system:

NAD M66 £ 4499
NAD M23 £ 3399
NAD M23 £ 3399
KEF R3 meta £ 1899
KEF S3 stands £ 649

Total £13845

I'd have the M23s in bridged mode. Poor little KEFs!

 

[plastic penguin]

I wouldn't know where start.

Had one of my dream amps but sold it: Leema Tucana MK2.

Possibly one of Accuphase amps, but I can't think this late at night.

 

[Messiah]

Meridian DSP 8000 XE

Need to look into a source but such a great speaker (to be fair I have only heard earlier versions).

 

[Dave_]

Kii Three

 

[Cricketbat70]

Let's have some fun and dream a little. Here's my 'Dear Santa' system:

NAD M66 £ 4499
NAD M23 £ 3399
NAD M23 £ 3399
KEF R3 meta £ 1899
KEF S3 stands £ 649

Total £13845

I'd have the M23s in bridged mode. Poor little KEFs!

As I'm not clued up on modern hifi. I would have to base my list on what I've heard playing at my local hifi shop, so it would be.

Hifi Rose RS520 £3399 (maybe 2, one for the front room and one for the dining room)

Fyne Audio F500 £700-£800 (again 2 sets dining room and front room) no idea what stands I'd put the speakers on.

£4199 per system + speaker stands

I'm sure there are better combinations out there but as I said my list is purely based on what I've heard playing at my local hifi dealer, when I took my Rega Planner 3 in for repair.

 

[skinnypuppy71]

Avid Sequel turntable
Tom Evans master groove phono stage
dcs Bartok apex streamer /dac
A valve based pre-amp
ATC scm100asl
Still need a arm and cartridge for the turntable.lol.
Probably around 60k-65k

 

[Friesiansam]

As I haveto be headphones only, this is easy.

Pathos InPol Ear, with DAC and the red finish.
Focal Stellias.

Around £8,500, so not going to happen soon…

 

[Witterings]

Let's have some fun and dream a little. Here's my 'Dear Santa' system:

Much too early to mention anything to do with Christmas .... should be banned until at least November

Now if you want to re-name it lottery winning system fair enough

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I've no idea. Unless I'm going to start looking, I don't really think about what I might buy. Hasn't always been the case, and I probably feel it's better this way.

 

[twinkletoes]

I have it, I don’t dream beyond what I can’t afford

Sugden a21
Chord qutest
Technics 1200gr mk1 with nag mp150
Musical fidelity mx vynal
Klipsch heresy 3
And my 20 somthing year old NAD c540
I will probably add a streamer of some sort at some point.

 

[podknocker]

Much too early to mention anything to do with Christmas .... should be banned until at least November

Now if you want to re-name it lottery winning system fair enough

There's a seasonal and stuff for a quid aisle in my local Morrisons and they have Christmas stuff from the last week in August.

It's sat next to the Halloween and Bonfire night junk.

All the seasons at the same time.

They will have Easter eggs on Boxing Day.

 

[Al ears]

Firstly I would need a new house with bigger room to put my dream system in.....

 

[podknocker]

Firstly I would need a new house with bigger room to put my dream system in.....

Same here. I'd need a custom install in a big listening room, probably bigger than the flat I live in.

No windows, just aircon and sound proofed. A dream system needs a dream listening room.

 

[plastic penguin]

Like @Al ears I would need a bigger place.

Something in the realms of Accuphase E280 (£5k approx), Harbeth C7 ES3 XD (£3.5k approx).

As the Accuphase is around the same price as Leema Tucana Anniversary, couldn't say for sure which one I would prefer.

 

[nopiano]

Let's have some fun and dream a little. Here's my 'Dear Santa' system:

NAD M66 £ 4499
NAD M23 £ 3399
NAD M23 £ 3399
KEF R3 meta £ 1899
KEF S3 stands £ 649

Total £13845

I'd have the M23s in bridged mode. Poor little KEFs!

Do you know why the M66 is so expensive, because I’d thought it was the M33 without the power amp? I realise it’s not out yet, as I had to look it up!

 

[podknocker]

Do you know why the M66 is so expensive, because I’d thought it was the M33 without the power amp? I realise it’s not out yet, as I had to look it up!

I know! I thought it was the new M33 but it's not.

No power amp inside. Pricey.

The M33 is a 1 box solution, but they want you to buy a separate amp.

Crafty.

https://www.audiologica.co.uk/product/nad-m66/

 

[nopiano]

I’m a bit limited with width in the present room, but it think I could squeeze this in:-

dCS Vivaldi stack - transport, DAC, clock and preamp.
Dan d’Agostino power amp - the Progression S350 should be plenty
Wilson Audio Sabrina X - unless the Sasha V will fit
Technics SL-1000R turntable system
Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck
Magnum Dynalab tuner

Should be some change from £300k.

Or a British system:-
Linn Klimax DSM 3 - streamer/preamp
ATC SCM50ASLT in oak
SME Synergy turntable system

at about 1/3rd of the price, and more than enough!

 

[Gray]

Firstly I would need a new house with bigger room to put my dream system in.....

That's precisely why I haven't listed.

I've massively helped what I do have by reducing nasty reverberations - but due to other compromises, anything more powerful / bassy would currently be wasted.

There are some aspects of my sound that I honestly don't think could be improved - but I'm well aware of what would be better in a purpose built room, with speakers well out into the room, with nothing between them....and no neighbours.

Some large, active speakers would then be considered.

 

[Gray]

ATC SCM50ASLT in oak

...and they'd be on my shortlist.
(Oak would be my choice too).

 

[podknocker]

No neighbours!

My dream every day.

 

[daytona600]

95year old Western electric cinema system

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1TiHj2j6GU&t=297s

 

[jjbomber]

Let's have some fun and dream a little. Here's my 'Dear Santa' system:

NAD M66 £ 4499
NAD M23 £ 3399
NAD M23 £ 3399
KEF R3 meta £ 1899
KEF S3 stands £ 649

Total £13845

Disappointed you haven't mentioned a fuse. How about some cables!

 

[podknocker]

Shhhhh!

Don't upset the moderators.

I don't mention the C word or F word these days.

 

[Friesiansam]

Shhhhh!

Don't upset the moderators.

You shouldn't let them get too complacent!

 

[jjbomber]

MC20 Audio System!