What is the best LOOKING audio component you wish you could buy?

geowak · « **on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:13 am »

This post is based on an earlier post entitled "What is the best LOOKING audio component you have bought"
but now I ask...

What is the best LOOKING audio component you wish you could buy? Here is mine below. I also think it would sound fabulous. If I got back into the analog world I WISH I could get this rig. Shindo Labs 301 system

http://www.toneimports.com/shindo/shindo301.html

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:41 am »

Nice, Geo. What's stopping you? You only live once they say.

Couple of these 200 watters could be nice, or with a little more abandonment . .

This!

milford3 · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:49 am »

I just love the look of the Decware Tori

TrungT · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:51 am »

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:52 am »

Very tasty, Trung.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:57 am »

The current line of Pass amps........with MBL speakers a close 2nd.

geowak · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:59 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 12 Mar 2013, 01:41 am

Nice, Geo. What's stopping you? You only live once they say.

Couple of these 200 watters could be nice, or with a little more abandonment . .

This!

Thanks for the nudge but actually the wife is stopping me. I mean I like my life. he he

BTW it looks like tubes rule the post, at least for now. Jolida? Are they that good?

Freo-1 · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 02:00 am »

Quote from: thunderbrick on 12 Mar 2013, 01:57 am

The current line of Pass amps........with MBL speakers a close 2nd.

Hmm... How about Pass Labs XS amps and Sound Lab Ultimate Speakers.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 02:49 am »

Geo, can't really say. Dunno of any reviews, either. I think their designer lives in Austria or thataways but they are built in China. It's the power they have that most tube amps (they are probably hybrids

) don't that I would happily employ to drive some Magneplanars. Just thinking out loud here.

Chromisdesigns · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 02:56 am »

These, but done by the guy here that does all the gorgeous cabinet building, in an exotic wood veneer!

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 03:09 am »

My goodness gracious! Would I love to hear what those puppies can do.

Chromisdesigns · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 04:38 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 12 Mar 2013, 03:09 am

My goodness gracious! Would I love to hear what those puppies can do.

They are Nelson Pass "Kleinhorns". In the write-up, he mentions building a similar set of straight horns (not folded like the Klein's) back when he was in school, and goes on to say that "no matter which way we pointed them, the cops invariably showed up"...

I'd love to have a listening room which could do justice to these. It would be almost obligatory to add a pair of El Pipe-o subwoofers as well. Then, several kilo-bucks worth of Pass amps and active crossovers to drive them.

First I have to find a big enough house in the middle of a few hundred acres, so the neighbors wouldn't complain every time they fired up!

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 05:04 am »

Hope you will invite me over!

"Man, I had forgotten that I have this. I mean it's been a l-o-n-g time since I've played it: ENCORE- The Roger Wagner Chorale on M&K RealTime Direct-to-Disc Records. Made on location with the mic wide open with no compression nor hint of tape plate-ing to disc. Clean, clean, clean with unbelievable immediacy, sense of thereness and pure transients like nobody. Maybe one day this method of recording will experience a renaissance.

Miss Toni, you got this?"

Posted on another topic. THIS recording I will bring!! It would sound out of this world on those Pass' speakers.

TONEPUB · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 05:17 am »

Those KR amps are really nice. Wouldn't mind a stereo Kronzilla...

Hmm...

Technics SP -10mk.2 with Obsidian base.
The new Nagra Jazz Preamplifier and the new 300B power amp.

My Thorens TD-124 when it gets back from Swissonor

Thats about it for now....

underdog64 · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 05:19 am »

Wilson Benesch C60 loudspeakers (paired with the Torus Sub):http://wilson-benesch.com/2010/07/a-c-t-c60-2/

jhm731 · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 06:56 am »

GT Audio Works · « **Reply #16 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:13 pm »

I lusted for the CLS speakers when they first came out..still one of the most beautiful form meets function designs ever...
in my opinion...Greg

GT Audio Works · « **Reply #17 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 12:28 pm »

As good as the pictures looked..I was floored the first time I saw these lacquered hardwood beauties in the flesh !!
Sonus Faber Stradivari
Greg

neekomax · « **Reply #18 on:** 12 Mar 2013, 01:50 pm »

JBL Everest. I think these look pretty awesome... like they just HAVE to sound amazing.

Judging from this vid of a demo in Japan, they probably do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK3bd_gKcrE

jpnz · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Apr 2013, 05:53 pm »

Moth Audio SPHYNX
Stereo vacuum tube balanced line out amplifier.

Such gorgeous mysterious looking device..