[googleli]

I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!
 
Home Theatre:
Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player
 
2 Channel / Headphone:
Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes
SVS Smyth Realiser

Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.

 

[mrbig]

Hello Kitty 2GB flagship MP3 player - Pink (out of stock at Walmart)

 

[ujamerstand]

A ton of transistors. The parts make the whole.

 

[Frequen C]

Nothing yet, but going to pull the trigger on a fairly large purchase tomorrow.

 

[Hellbishop]

A great year for me audio wise thanks to all the great advice at Head-fi to guide me along with all the tons of reviews at Amazon.
 
Onkyo TX-8555 stereo reciever
JBL Control One bookshelf speakers
Insignia Bass Reflex Speakers
KLH Pro-6 bookshelf speakers
Auralex Mopads
Koss Pro-4AA headphones
Koss UR-40 Titanium headphones
Sony MDR-XB500 headphones
Sennheiser HD-202 II headphones
Sennheiser HD-419 headphones
Flex 500gig external harddrive for backing up music cds.
 
 
This will probably be it as i focus on buying music and a few computer games for my audio visual pleasure. Oh yea and probably see about getting some more storage for ripping the music on.
 

 

[DarknightDK]

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I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!
 
Home Theatre:
Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player
 
2 Channel / Headphone:
Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes
SVS Smyth Realiser

Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.

This list is just insane and all in 1 year to boot. So in your opinion, which of those mentioned above is your best purchase of the year (i.e. once you have it you just cannot live without it)?
 

 

[Draygonn]

2011 has been a great year. Sig includes everything but DT880s which were traded. In 2012 I'm looking forward to the release of the ODAC and WooDAC.

 

[googleli]

I'd say Esoteric K-01, SR009, Smyth Realiser and Westone ES5. But of course I can't listen to my SR009 without the SRM727II so I have to reluctantly include it - until my BHSE arrives. 
 
As for Liquid Fire / LCD2/3, they are very close to my top gear mentioned above, but not there yet when it comes to "once you have it you just cannot live without it".
 
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This list is just insane and all in 1 year to boot. So in your opinion, which of those mentioned above is your best purchase of the year (i.e. once you have it you just cannot live without it)?
 

 

 

[vvanrij]

Bragging thread...

 

[Deep Funk]

Too many headphones, a few sources, amplifiers and more music than I can handle. 
 
The highlights:
Sony CDP-750
Beyerdynamic DT48S
AKG K400
AKG K500
Fiio E10
Sennheiser HD250 II Linear
JBL Duet II (Computer speakers usually sound lousy, especially the budget versions. The JBL sounds better than I expected.)
 
At the moment I am still checking out a particular headphone and I still want to try the DT1350...

 

[catscratch]

Not a whole lot going on this year, but that's a good thing. Only two main standouts:
 
Stax SR-X Mk3 Pro, which is ridiculously awesome, and
Neko D100 Mk2, which is a rather nice DAC actually, especially with the O2/BH... nice enough to make me contemplate selling everything else.

 

[Cluny]

* Woo Audio WA6-SE
* Violectric V800
 
Very happy with both
 
Thinking about the LCD-3, but probably not before the year is over.

 

[flurry]

MEElectronics M6
Ety MC5 (now broken...)
UE TF10
Some random Altec Lansing phones (returned the next day..)
 
Sony MDR 7506
Sony XB 500
Grado SR60i
AKG K240M
 
Fiio E6
CEntrance DACmini
 
iPod Classic 160gb
Pure i20
 
I only regret the XB500s and the M6s.

 

[Br777]

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I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!
 
Home Theatre:
Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player
 
2 Channel / Headphone:
Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes
SVS Smyth Realiser

Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.

 

say there pal... coud I uhh... borrow some money

 

[charliex]

Hmmm.......
 
AKG K-400
AKG K-501
Stax SR-X Mk3 Pro
Stax SRD-7
Miscellanous Grados
Sennheiser HE60 (Baby Orpheus)
Cavalli eXStatA Hybrid Amp
 
Ans still managed to pay the mortgage and feed the kids.