Missing the forest for the trees

Perfect speaker would be the size of a concert hall to be able to reproduce the sound of a full orchestra. And can you imagine amps to drive them ? And the size of your listening room.

Western Electric system used in theaters in early 1900’s are too big to use in ordinary house but very efficient 110db/w and be driven by 20 Wattts amplifiers to get enough sound for the whole theater.

One of my billionaire friend have several Western Electric system.

Every time I hear his system, I got amazed to death.

But I can not afford it.

I am just happy with my current system based upon Lansche 4.1 while doing small improvement from time to time.

A great sounding system playing a great recording actually will reproduce the sound of a concert hall with amazing detail...ambient crowd sounds, reverberant hall sound...it's all there...compare a studio orchestral recording to a live concert hall version...you can easily hear the difference.

Weeding out the junk in my LP collection. Cutting back from the 4,500 I had to 3000 LPs. Positive experience so far. finished the Jazz, Listened to all the stuff I did not remember, got rid of all the junk and impossible to listen to (think later Archie Shepp tootling atonally for the whole LP...), kept the stuff. I like...  am almost finished doing the same with the Rock. Classical is a bit harder.. (Like I listened to all EIGHT performances of Scheherazade I owned.. Kept 4 dumped 4. One item down, 1000 to go.                      
So basically changing from collecting for collecting sake. To playing listening to what I like. Gettin' OLD and have no need for an endless mountain of possible stuff to listen to. (3,000 should be plenty)

Likewise, Liz---Eric.