Looking to build the best possible system. $$ is no object.

[GMichael]

$300, dang you must be rich.

Nooo.......

Mike

Duh.....

[Resident Loser]

....an Onkyo TX-8222 receiver @$179 and a pair of Polk R150 loudspeakers for $89 (both at Crutchfield for those prices)...As a CD source: a portable CDP (and I absolutely swear by my $15 GPX which cost $7 after rebate) running on batts 'til I could swing a Philips universal wall-wart (about $12 from Wal-Mart)...Plug a 1/8" stereo mini-plug to RCA adapter (a Belkin or Philips also from el Waldo or a Ratshack item) into the "line out" (Yes, it has a line out jack) and you should be good to go...

jimHJJ(...just my two cents...)

[GMichael]

....an Onkyo TX-8222 receiver @$179 and a pair of Polk R150 loudspeakers for $89 (both at Crutchfield for those prices)...As a CD source: a portable CDP (and I absolutely swear by my $15 GPX which cost $7 after rebate) running on batts 'til I could swing a Philips universal wall-wart (about $12 from Wal-Mart)...Plug a 1/8" stereo mini-plug to RCA adapter (a Belkin or Philips also from el Waldo or a Ratshack item) into the "line out" (Yes, it has a line out jack) and you should be good to go...

jimHJJ(...just my two cents...)

Will this sound better and louder than my friend's system? He's always braggin' 'bout his stuff. I wanna show him what a real system sounds like. He's got some kind of controller with amps that he can't even fit inside the same box. How old fashoin is that? And he's got BMW speakers. HAHAHA... Speakers from some car it sounds like to me. And he still uses one of them there a record players. Imagine that. He should wake up and smell the 16'th century.
I need a system that will be much louder than his, to show him what a great audiofile I am.
Will this system you suggest have it's own anteni or should I save my old coat hanger?