[randerson3024]

Another timeless classic:

 

[randerson3024]

She may not sound the best, but she sure is pretty!

 

[Oski]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JadeEast /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I was going to post something from Nagra too! They really embrace the industrial aesthetic.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjkurita /img/forum/go_quote.gif 47 Labs PiTracer:

I’ve only seen that once when I sold my Don Garber Fi Y preamp to this guy in NYC. He had the coolest looking setup with the Fi gear and this 47 Labs CD player. But I have to say while I’ve not seen a cooler looking setup, I didn’t really care for the sound of his gear as a whole.

 

[memepool]

More Revox in an early '90s futurist stylee. This looks more like a mainframe computer than a midi system but it's actually just a conventional CD, amp and tapedeck styled to look like a music server with multiple hard disk arrays (although nobody thought of making such a thing back then when a CD was still 10x the size of an average harddrive ! )

 

[memepool]

Revox turntable from the 1980's, with the famous "tonearm gantry" which concealed a tiny parallel tracking tonearm

and the deck that started it all the famous Beogram 4000 designed by Jacob Jensen in 1972

 

[milkpowder]

Randerson: Hey! You're cheating! As much of an eye-candy as speakers are, this is a source-only thread!

On a side note, don't those Analysis Audio ribbon speakers look very much like Apogees?

EDIT: It took me ages to host the picture for some reason

I can't believe I'm already on the next page...

Gryphon Audio make superb-looking gear. The Mikado is no exception:

[xenithon, beat me to nominating the Mikado. He'd already done so on page 1]


So to redeem myself, the new-ish Chord RED Reference CD Player:

One more cool player I found, the Nagra CDC CD Player:

 

[randerson3024]

Quote:

Originally Posted by milkpowder /img/forum/go_quote.gif Randerson: Hey! You're cheating! As much of an eye-candy as speakers are, this is a source-only thread! On a side note, don't those Analysis Audio ribbon speakers look very much like Apogees? EDIT: It took me ages to host the picture for some reason I can't believe I'm already on the next page... Gryphon Audio make superb-looking gear. The Mikado is no exception: [xenithon, beat me to nominating the Mikado. He'd already done so on page 1] So to redeem myself, the new-ish Chord RED Reference CD Player: One more cool player I found, the Nagra CDC CD Player:

The Chord looks awesome!.

 

[memepool]

Quote:

Originally Posted by milkpowder /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hey! You're cheating! As much of an eye-candy as speakers are, this is a source-only thread!

yes I wondered about that. A cartridge counts a part of a source though

The famous Koetsu Jade.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by milkpowder /img/forum/go_quote.gif One more cool player I found, the Nagra CDC CD Player:

We have a winner!
Nagra build awesome looking, and most probably sounding, audio gear.

 

[Duggeh]

And the NAGRA has got a Mike Oldfield CD in it.

Clearly, that makes a CDP better than anything else.

 

[milkpowder]

Quote:

Originally Posted by memepool /img/forum/go_quote.gif yes I wondered about that. A cartridge counts a part of a source though The famous Koetsu Jade.

Gorgeous. I won't even ask how much it costs

EDIT: Costs $10k in the UK

More eye-candy...


Jadis JD1 CD Player

IMO, Jadis make the nicest (looking) tube gear in the world.


It seems like there aren't many high resolution photos of the Nagra CDC. Managed to find some more of it.

 

[tourmaline]

nice to see a thread about the best looking gear but what aboutthe best sounding gear?! You can look at it all day, but it doesn't gonna make it sound any better!

 

[Zanth]

We have plenty of those threads

Let us have our fun

 

[randerson3024]

Walker Audio Proscenium:

 

[randerson3024]

Audio Research CD 7