N50 for me too. A year in and still thrilling. Couldn’t imagine ever selling.
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Me too. How have they done it. I’d also add in my AlChris Audio TX9s
They outperform speakers I demonstrated at 4x their price…..
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L / 100km?
Hi Murmur,
Sorry, the joke is funny, I get it now.
It’s just me who’s not very fluent in those units.
Here in Switzerland, we’re more of a metric civilisation. We measure fuel consumption in L/100 km… not in “mystical imperial wizardry per hamster mile” or whatever you people use 
But since it was a good one, I’ll play along :
I’m running at roughly 5000 Pa·s/m², give or take a few Pa.S 
Cheers 
Thomas
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The two pieces that have seriously outperformed for their cost for me are
1 The Bottlehead Sex amp sonically amazing a bit like my NN50 in many ways only valves and a miniscule 2W output power plus you need to build it yourself. Think I picked a kit up for around £200 fifteen or so years ago in a promotion I still have it for and it never fails to bring a smile every time it’s dusted off and played.
2 Jico SAS 1 Boren Cantilever Micro Ridge diamond profile stylus. A recommendation from a life long analogue die hard friend again 15 years ago and probably the most affordable way at the time to dip a toe in the word of exotica styluses. It transformed the performance of my MM cart. The smallest and most expensive hifi item at the time I had ever purchased but boy did it deliver. I wore it out and had it re tipped with a Paratrace diamond profile it sounded excellent but hasn’t the same magic the original Jico profile had.
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My HDMI de-embedder that enables me to play SACD and hi-res PCM Bluray music from the CX UHD transport.
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Linn Sondek LP12
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Iykyk
Nait50 which shows older PRAT could come back in a modern way!
Perhaps AVoptions signal cable.
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Nait 3.
Under $2000 with its FlatCap cousin, purchased at the turn of the previous century. It had been performing flawlessly for 26 years, never causing me to lose interest in the music, never awaking any urge to make a change in the system.
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…sounds like the sort of nonsense we would come up with!
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So, purchased in the final years of the 1890’s?
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Funnily enough I considered that same answer, but value for money it was beaten by something secondhand (I bought Dave new)
Best value for us? Tricky to answer.
Our shortlist would include
A & R Cambridge A60 amplifier from back in the day
Naim Muso Qb
Epos ES14 speakers from the mid 1980s
Isoacoustic Gaia loudspeaker feet
Mogami balanced interconnects
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The MD Étude FM tuner is without a doubt the best value piece of equipment I have. It not only performed flawlessly for the last 40 years but it was and still is the best source for me beating vinyl, tape, cds and streamers. Thanks to Radio Canada for offering the highest quality FM broadcast.
No 2. is my little olive Nait 2 that definitely causes a smile on my face when listening to something like Led Zeppelin’s ‘Rock&Roll’, The Who’s ‘Magic Bus’ (Live at Leeds) or AC/DCs ‘Thunderstruck’
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Best value for money in my system has been isoAcoustics Gaia for speaker isolation. I bought the original Gaia II for my Dynaudio Confidence C2 Platinum seven years ago. Earlier today I upgraded them to the just released Gaia Neo II.
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What difference is there?
I think I paid £200 for one of these a while back, placing it on the router it improves everything i-player picture quality on the tvs, internet radio and qobuz sound quality on the streamers
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Beautiful pic, the way the light falls on it.
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Always appreciate the dust on other people’s systems. I feel less alone .
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