Topic: What Upgrades Are On Your Wishlist?

[Nick's Picks]

I want your holiday budget.

[Weirdness]

Lusting after a Naim "Supernait" integrated at present.  80 punchy watts of uber-musicality, 5 digital inputs to boot.  I'm sure someone will say you can do better for the money but I have some good friends in the industry which helps on the cost.  Unfortunately Santa isn't going to be kicking down that hard this year but I have a bunch of goodies to sell which will put me closer.  Just ditched my Benchmark DAC1 and CEC transport for an Arcam CD23T(uses the DCS ring dac) which puts me ahead of the game at this point.  Great player by the way, highly recommended...

[bobbygeeWOW]

Not my jones since I scored Brian's Bel Canto DAC 1.1  , but an audiophile friend of mine just called me breathlessly today to give me the news:

He's a tube fan, and has a spectacularly imaging system of all-tube gear with these great swiss speakers that he's built over the years. Its astonishingly real. I freakin love it. Can't remember any of his equipment details right now of course.. but he bought one of those cheapish modded, uh... citipulse or zualhu or something DACs with USB for his portable tube system. For a laugh he hooked it up to his main stereo and found it didn't sound near as good as the analogue out of his tubed CD player. So he tried the USB to his laptop and was so floored with delight that its instantly officially permanent, and he's full bore into to computer transport, reading up on flac, EAC, and friends! hehehe...

[som]

I want your holiday budget.

Not sure if that was directed at me, but if so, trust me.....it will take *years* to knock off my list! It's a "wishlist", not a "Christmas shopping list". In fact, since a $1200 upgrade last year (Horns + Almarro), all I've added are the AntiCables. And nothing is planned for the this Christmas (and my wife sure as hell isn't going to *surprise* me with any of the stuff on the list!).

 

[JackoRoses]

24 bit DAC and a mcintosh SS amp.
maybe in 08 ...

[scervin]

Not sure any of this will happen this year or next, but.....

-Record Cleaner
-Seaton Sound Submerssive Sub
-New Phone Pre
-Salk Sound V3 or HT3 + matching center
-Upgrade Odyssey Stratos SE to Mono SE's

[J.T.L]

Grace m902
new cans.

...upgrade over.

[boojum]

I'd like to get my SoundLab speakers re-diaphragmed.

[Tim]

Grace m902
new cans.

...upgrade over.