WOW. Couldn't resist reading the entire thing...WELL DONE Richard!
Notice the inclusion of a full set of Audioquest's 'Wild' cables. At retail prices, that could be:
1. Powercables, NG4's, 2M, $720 (a bargain!)
2. Interconnect, Wild Blue Yonder, 5M pair, $13,300
3. Speaker, Wild Wood, 2 6' pairs, $56,000 (yes, fifty-six thou$and!)
Total, only $70K$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, I'm just guessing the lengths, and he may have been supplied with even more of this hyper-expensive stuff for his frontend and poweramps.
FWIW, the successor speakers to my 5As were Serenity Super-7s driven by Nelson Pass's FirstWatt J2s*, but this summer I resurrected the 5As' predecessors, Audio Physic Avanti IIs; story here
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/34/344001.html (Here's a very early, very-WIP pic.)
Hey! I still qualify to post here; I have a V-steen VCC-1 centerchannel speaker.
*
http://www.firstwatt.com/j2.html. I've wired the two channels of each of my two J2s in parallel; the power ratings go from 30WPC times two into 8 or 4 Ohms to 30 Watts per amp into 8 or 60 Watts into 4.
