Your audio gear backlog

I also have the Audeze LCD-2 on my backlog. The purchase price is a tough nut to crack but I hope within a year or so ::crosses fingers:: 

All I still need to buy is the parts for an Objective2 desktop version, then I'm done until I want speakers.

K-Horns

I am aspiring to upgrade to a top tier balanced tube amp. A likely candidate is Eddie Current BA or perhaps a WA22.

Oh, about ten amps I have in parts, some partially finished. Casework is the hangup. I was goin to drop them into commercial cases, but am going for custom ones. That's held up by the workshop, which I have. But it is filled with furniture that is going to go into the house which is torn down to the studs inside. That's waiting for the completion of three apartments. It was just two apartments, but one long-time tenant died (, he was a good man and I loved chatting with him) and we have to gut that place. So... maybe early 2012?

A little frustrating, since I have a shop, parts, casing materials, all the tools, the ability and desire, and time to build. It will happen, I just don't know when. First up are an Ultrapath preamp, 417A SESS headphone amp and the Gilmore All-Triode electrostat amp. I'll case up the Dynamid quickly, too. And much else.

Then there's a Pass Labs D1 DAC that needs a power supply and casing. There are most of the parts for a Rega Planar 3, too, but I'm thinking about getting a big piece of aluminum and making a custom turntable, and the ESL-63s need to be torn down and completely rebuilt.

Also need to build cases for a pair of Linkwitz Orion3 speakers. I have everything else, even the amps.

Finally, I have about 30 1 1/2" x 24" aluminum extrusions. Those need to be cut up and used with shelves to create a rack capable of holding all the gear. But that's a way off. I have to build everything first and then figure out how to best design shelving to hold everything.

The Ultimate Dream Fantasy setup is within reach. Maybe it'll be done in a year. On the other hand, I thought the same thing last year. But it is getting closer.

KGSSHV + testing the KG digital attenuator.

KGSSHV 500V version.

Blue Hawaii, mainly because I want pretty tubes glowing, and because it's the bestest name for an amplifier ever.

DIY T2 'Budget' with the KGDA, mainly because I'm crazy.

SR-009, I need to see what all the fuss is about.

 

Merry Staxxmas to me, I can't wait until the Christmas holidays. I am not looking forward to the casework.....

 

After all that, I think I'm done.......

I have an AMB y2 which I really should finish!

 

I'm seriously considering getting into vinyl and I've been weighing up whether to buy a Rega RP3 and phono stage for the last couple of months.

 

I've also been looking into Harbeth loud speakers and an appropriate integrated or power and pre amp pairing, but these items belong on a wish list at the moment.

I'd like to add a current totl headphone, and move a level up in amplification. Then there are speakers.

I'm only waiting to get my hands on my Cyrus 2 + PSX amp.  I left it in KC when my wife and I moved to C-bad, took it to the shop while back on a visit, and had my daughter pick it up when it was done. October first is the target date, and I am going to have an amp shootout between it and my very good Arcam Delta 60.  The Cyrus has the headphone jack in the back (facing UP!) and I think that's extreme ergonomics, even for the British.

 

I also hope to grab my spare EPI goldring tweeters, as I have a pair of Fishers here in C-bad that need tweets.  My KP-500 is on the list too - I'm going to try applying car technology to home audio (again).

 

Other than that, nothing...

I'm fortunate to have more equipment than I can use, so my real plan is to get rid of stuff, not buy more. Other than that, I'm more interested in learning how to build things and restore things, rather than buy more things.