I was looking at a pair of 7200.2 speakers in gloss white. I was pretty close to pulling the trigger, but the owner talked me out of it with basically it's going to be really hard to get service where you live.

I guess technically I could still change my mind since the Focal's don''t arrive to their shop until on 9/5 and they aren't coming to get my speakers until next week. Maybe I am just getting old (42) but I am pretty unhappy with everything I have at the moment.

My wife, dad, and I did a long A/B test today comparing the DAC in the McIntosh MCD301, which is a 10 year old CD player, to the DAC in my 5 week old McIntosh C2700 which retails for 8500. Every single one of us thought the music being decoded by the CD player was better. So, I am really stumped on what to do. The 2700 is so hard to get right now., I might be able to get over retail for it.

I already sold the MCD301 because I was planning to get a McIntosh transport and use their '"MCT" connection for pure sound,. I started to remember "the good old days" before we built, when our living room was a G68, HD621, and Mac amps. So much, that I found myself on eBay today looking at Meridian CD players and might pull the trigger on a G08 CD player with 24 bit upgrade.

Anthem AV 90M, McIntosh C2700 preamp, MC452, MC207, MC152, MCD301, Oppo 203, B&W 802 D3's