Shakti I have met you a couple of times post Munich over some food.
I was the guy with the French onion tea shirt last time. I say that as you commented on it.
Seriously, you are in a good place for some decent speakers. Avalon don't make them.
Phone up and have a good chat with Graz. He will build you something completely fucked up. You won't believe your ears.
I know saying something like that takes a massive leap of faith. But seriously I have been into hi-fi since I was 5 and I am now 58. My current spec Duettas a few months after a substantial mod are crazy stupid good. Just absolutely outstanding.
Get some high spec custom built Full Range and give Graz a challenge...
They will sort you out until you die. Seriously. They will.
thank you for your recommendation!
Following your thoughts, It would mean, that I am looking for the perfect gear to stay with it until I die.
This is a wrong assumption from the beginning.
I love to hear different gear to understand the personal goal of the individual Designer.
For me components like Koda 160 or Boulder 3050 are a peace of art and do not compete.
They are just different and do show the 2 ways of designing the best amplifier the individual Designers can think about.
What a great luck to have the opportunity to listen to the individual Designers understanding of music reproduction.
Currently I am learning the way Audionet is reproducing music, before I was listing to Jeff Rowlands understanding of music.
Both are different in a way, that I learn more from the records I am listening to. This different products do open the window to the music in an different angle. And any angle is right, if you can enjoy and understand the reproduced music.
May be my next set up will be tubes and horn speakers again, time will show.
by the way, this approach makes cartridges the easiest way for me to enjoy music listening.
Without carrying / exchanging tons of heavy gear,
I am able to install different genius designers/manufacturers products and to look from different angles to the same record.