Which purchase tipped you into nirvana.


After owning some excellent gear, which purchase was it that put a big smile on your face?
pedrillo
Each piece was an integral step forward, but I do not think I could get there with my budget without the modern OHM Walshes.
Modofying my Khorns w/ ALK crossovers, trachorn, JBL driver, crites tweeters
Lots of smiles over the years. Biggest smiles and with the most recent and working backward......

Mint condition Marantz 7c preamp.
Conrad Johnson ART series 3 preamp.
Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage.
Marantz 2270 with the "gold/engraved" faceplate.
Marantz 10b tuner.
Pure Reference Extremes
Absolutely marvelous.....
My audio friends knew I was going to say that!

Regards,
A 9.5 foot xmas tree in the corner of my listening room. it dramatically improved the acoustics.
amazing!
9.5ft Wow. We have tall ceilings now but I remember times we were living for many years in a hovel with such low ceilings we could only eat pancakes.
It was really disheartening to see that of those who had actually achieved Nirvana/nirvana it had received only four out of five stars.
Believe it or not, installing a pair of Audioprism Ground Controls on my Focal JM Lab BE Micro Utopia speakers not only tipped me to nirvana, but stopped the itch to upgrade. If the pair of Audioprism RCA Ground Controls that are on order do as much as the speaker Ground Controls, I might have to go back on oxygen.
When I purchased my first pair of quality speakers -- Vienna Acoustics Mozart Grands.
My analog rig finally put the smile on my face after many years of digital dissatisfaction.
My {updated version} of my teflon tape on the ac prongs tweak !... Take three layers of ACE hardware brand teflon tape about 9 inches long and put all of them on top of each other together. Then you wrap it Tightly around one of the ac prongs. You do this to all three ac prongs. This is a...MUST TRY TWEAK !!.. This tweak needs to settle-in good for 4 or 5 days. Here's some pictures of this AMAZING tweak... http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/tweaks/messages/16/165450.html
Would it be better to use 9 three inch strips stacked? Or one 27 incher? I guess you could also try 27 one inches stacked? Less wrapping, more stacking.
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