Happy with Your Audio System?

I'm never satisfied. Always things to improve on, and on an average man's budget to boot.

 

I dance all night long. I'm extremely happy and I have not found any system I liked better, even at 20 times the price of mine.

 

For the money invested I'm pleased.

 

I feel fine. While I have the funds to upgrade my systems, and probably significantly since my gear is generally mid-fi, I am happy with what I have right now. So, I couldn't vote that I am happy enough to dance with you or anyone else or even with myself, but I feel fine.

 

I'm done upgrading for the time being so I'm happy.

 

Nope, not at all. But I'm not in the position of being able to improve it anytime soon, either.

 

Your system is pretty cool. I wouldn't worry too much either.

 

Come to the dark side. Prudence is over rated.

 

Hi, I haven't seen these amps for some time. Do you still have them? If so, how do they sound?
Regards,

Raymond Koonce

 

I'm not planing on changing a thing unless something goes bust..
Well......... maybe Magnepan 1.7's if I move into a larger place..

 

Yep, very happy here.

 

Totally pleased

I would think that to significantly improve my system would require at least $15,000 - $20,000. Not interested in doing that - not in hand least. I only cross my fingers regarding my somewhat aged phono cartridge.

 

I was in a pretty good place but wanted to take my system to that next level. I needed a speaker that had more bass and was more rock'n'roll friendly than my Cremona monitor speakers. I have great amps ... both McIntosh (MC 275 and MC 2255). I wanted to go the mono block route with more power. I pulled the trigger this past week on a pair of used MC 1201 1200watt mono blocks and brand spanking new Sonus Faber Olympica IIIs.

 

In a good place. I have the presence area focused as I like it and everything seems to sounding good. Something must be about to go wrong.

 

People still have stereo systems?! I like the OP's poll options as song titles, pretty cool idea! Not a poll option but I'll go with "Everything Works If You Let It"

 

Hey Mr Koonce...I loved the amps, but they have moved on to new owners a while back (That happens to all my gear).

 

In the basement, very happy. In my bedroom, happy but the speakers are too big for the room (15" woofers") and I know I am not getting the full potential out of them.

 

Given my remote geographic location and what I have access to-am good. But when my new house is built will have to bless it with some new gear as it will have a lot more room. Japan is a lot closer than the States and Kenrick modified JBL monitors (L26's or 4311's) would sure make a nice housewarming item.

 

It's getting better all the time...

Last year re-energized me on making my home audio enjoyment more of a priority. All of my CDs are on hard drive with playback via PC speakers. But last year I was "donated" a friend's turntable and also a nice 70s era Kenwood receiver and bought a set of the Pioneer Andrew Jones speakers. I need to get the room properly furnished (Ikea Kallax I'm looking at you) and setup so that I can run the server music through that system. That should be done in the next few months. The soundcard/DAC in my PC is older and is cabable of 24/96 so I think that may be the area I look at later in the year. Not sure if I want to go stand-alone DAC or something like the Oppo 105d which would give me some nice options but I also don't have a huge SACD/DVD-A/BD library right now.

 

Life's good

 

Yesterday I got a little verklempt at just how good it *all* was - the system and the music.

But, I know it could be better.

 

It's very good & sonically gone way beyond the so called Linn/Naim reference of yesteryear. I bought today a 2nd hand LP copy of Pink Floyd More for £5 , got it professionally cleaned at Sister Ray & it sounds the business.

 

I'm happy with my system. However, after having the same speakers and amp for 20 years I'd like to upgrade. All I need to do now is come up with about $25,000 so I can start looking.

 

Naim CD5 deck
Naim Nait XS2 integrated
Naim FlatCap XS power supply
Russell K RED 50 monitors

Mercilessly revealing of the quality of all recordings; but also finds all the musicality and groove. I'm too lazy to even research any improvements.

 

Since this post I've upgraded to the Lounge LCR phono preamp and added a Cambridge CXN network streamer.