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here is the story of the most elaborate and expensive hi-fi system that @brileigh and I have ever heard: we met this hi-fi dealer—let’s call him Larry—when visiting nyc after I inquired about a particular brand of electronics that only they and two other dealers in the U.S. happen to carry (Spectral Audio). more about Spectral another time, though. we were brought to a smaller room than this one and another staff member set up our modest demo of a CD player, preamplifier, stereo amplifier, and floorstanding speakers. after about 30min of listening, Larry burst into the room with his walker clanking loudly. he had recently had surgery on his leg or foot, and he joked that he was considering bringing a mattress to the hi-fi showroom so that he could sleep here instead of commuting.

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all in all, between the loudspeakers ($370-400k), amps ($195k), preamp ($150k), streamer/DAC ($142k), and cables ($130k), this system adds up to around $1M USD. if you include power conditioning, racks, and other details, even a little more. so, after all of that, how did it sound? hyper-detailed. gobs and gobs of detail flying at you from every direction. every little minuscule sound in the recording: a singer’s lips, fingers on a fretboard, piano pedals. Chronosonics are known as some of the best loudspeakers in the world for detail retrieval and I would concur with that assessment. the other uncanny characteristic of this system is its ability to portray the ambience of the original recording. so, rather than hearing a mixed track like a flat painted mural, you can hear the space around the performers and your mind/ear understands the spatial relationships between them.

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