If I were a rich man...
 

....what's the most expensive HiFi money can buy?

for a CD, Amp, Speakers, Turntable, Cables, mains filters, etc

Let's see how much money we can spend hypothetically speaking, for fun.

If I were a rich man...
 

"íçëéìèî" wrote in message
...
...what's the most expensive HiFi money can buy?

for a CD, Amp, Speakers, Turntable, Cables, mains filters, etc


OK, Pete - I'll start you off:

Clearaudio Insider Reference Cartridge 'Wood' - £7,000 (give or take)
http://www.musicalsurroundings.com/clearaudio/mc.html

If I were a rich man...
 

What about:

Bryston 2050 monoblock: $59000/ pair
http://www.stereophile.com/printarchives.cgi?764


JMLab Grande Utopia: $70000
http://www.focal.tm.fr/gb/home/utopiabe/gube.htm

If I were a rich man...
 

"íçëéìèî" wrote in message
...
...what's the most expensive HiFi money can buy?

for a CD, Amp, Speakers, Turntable, Cables, mains filters, etc

Let's see how much money we can spend hypothetically speaking, for
fun.




If I was as rich as, say, William Henry Gates III, I wouldn't bother
with music from hi-fi - I'd have the real thing instead.


--
RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.

If I were a rich man...
 

...what's the most expensive HiFi money can buy?

for a CD, Amp, Speakers, Turntable, Cables, mains filters, etc

Let's see how much money we can spend hypothetically speaking, for fun.

Well if you just want to spend regardless of quality, I'd imagine the
original of these would fetch a fair bit...
http://www.tinfoil.com/tinfoil.htm

Surviving recordings to use on it are even more exotic, given they have a
normal lifespan of a few hours.
Unless you make your own, in which case the media is surprisingly resonable
;)

I also managed to find a fuss about...

"12 watt per channel, Ongaku tube amplifier, in which the tubes are obscure
and rare triode power tubes and the transformers are wound from silver wire
with tweezers, by hand"

.... I found one 2nd hand, $20,000 per monoblock. So _very_ quiet stereo bi-
amping for ~£130k.

--
Jim H

If I were a rich man...
 

Jim H wrote:


I also managed to find a fuss about...

"12 watt per channel, Ongaku tube amplifier, in which the tubes are
obscure and rare triode power tubes and the transformers are wound
from silver wire with tweezers, by hand"

... I found one 2nd hand, $20,000 per monoblock. So _very_ quiet
stereo bi- amping for ~£130k.

Hmm, I wouldn't have described 211's as rare or obscure, hey ho, thats
marketing for you. Tweezers ?

--
Nick