MAILING LIST Subscribe to our mailing list to hear about sales, new products, and events. Your e-mail:	Choosing the right components for a hi-fi system is hard. It's more important to get ones that match than to just choose a couple highly rated products and throw them together. We take the guess work out of it by assembling the products we know sound best together. All-in-one The Teac CR-H238i is an amazing little mini system. Tiny size but tons of features, great build quality and amazing sound. CD, AM/FM, SD card input and USB. The optional iPod dock lets you control your iPod with the Teac remote. Matched with the Castle Knight 1, this system is unbeatable at the price. Teac CR-H238i CD player/Receiver/iPod dock Castle Knight 1 Speakers Price: $699.99$759.00 with iPod dock Level 1 Marantz has always been the premium entry level brand and we're proud to offer it as the basis of our Level 1 system. The sound is big and powerful and the receiver offers all the functionality you'll need. Substitute a Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable for the Marantz CD for only $50 more. Marantz SR4023 Receiver Marantz CD5003 CD Player Castle Knight 1 Speakers Price: $1100.00 Level 2 Level 2 uses the same Marantz Receiver and CD player as Level 2 but with a much better speaker. The Knight 5 is a big floorstander with all the bass and dynamics you'd expect but the subtelty and midrange of a great small monitor. Truly a standout speaker in the sub-$2000 price range. This system plays loud and deep with effortless dynamics. Substitute a Pro-Ject Xpression III Turntable for only $350 more Marantz SR4023 Receiver Marantz CD5004 CD Player or Pro-Ject Xpression III Turntable Knight 5 Speakers Price: $1999.00 Level 3 This system really ups the anti in the amp and CD player realm. The Audiolab 8200A has fantastic dynamics and captures the texture of instruments the way no sub-$1000 amp can. The award-winning Audiolab 8200CD is the finest CD player under $2000 and it has a world class DAC with USB for connecting your digital streaming device or computer. The slightly warm, big sound of the Audiolab amp matches perfectly with the crisp and dynamic Neat Motive 3. This plays loud with real toe-tapping ability and a sweet midrange. This is a real sweet spot for most people. It's affordable and so well balanced that many will be happy to never go further. Substitute a Pro-Ject Xpression III Turntable and Graham Slee Communicator for the Audiolab CD player at no additional charge. Audiolab 8200A Amplifier Audiolab 8200CD CD Player or Pro-Ject Xpression III Turntable Neat Motive 3 Speakers Price: $3299.99 Level 4 Now we're getting into some truly phenomenal sound. The Audiolab 8200A amplifier is a modern classic with a highly detailed and punchy sound and all the emotion you could ask for. The Pro-Ject turntable is state of the art - vinyl platter and carbon fibre tonearm - and it looks the part too. At the price there are no rivals. The little Graham Slee phono pre-amp is a staggeringly good product and will embarrass many preamps costing over twice as much. Finally, the Neat Motive 1 is a serious floorstander with a muscular and incisive sound. Substitute an Audiolab 8200CD CD player for the Pro-Ject Xperience for $875 less. Audiolab 8200A Amplifier Pro-Ject Xperience turntable with Dynavector 10x5 cartridge Graham Slee Gram Amp 2SE phono pre-amplifier Neat Motive 1 Speakers Price: $5399.99 Level 5 Improvement over Level 4 comes from the fabulous Pro-Ject RPM 9.2 Turntable. This thing is so good it's scary. The improvement in detail retrieval warrants a better phono stage as well - the Graham Slee Era Gold V, one of the best solid state phono preamps that money can buy. Audiolab 8200A Amplifier Pro-Ject RPM 9.2 Turntable with Dynavector 10x5 cartridge Graham Slee Era Gold V phono pre-amplifier Neat Motive 1 Speakers Price: $6999.99 Level 6 Level 6 is a jump forward in, soundstage, naturality and micro-detail thanks to the Harbeths and Perreaux Audiant 80i. The Audiant offers a clean 80 w/ch which brings the little Harbeths to life. You won't believe the kind of scale these tiny speakers can bring in this system. Finally we start to see the kind of detail and resolution the turntable and cartridge are capable of as well. Substitute an Audiolab 8200CD CD player in place of the RPM 9.2, Era Gold and 2m Black for $2900 less. Perreaux Audiant 80i Amplifier Pro-Ject RPM 9.2 Turntable with Ortofon 2m Black cartridge Graham Slee Era Gold V phono pre-amplifier Harbeth P3ESR Speakers Price: $8999.99 Level 7 Level 7 makes a few significant jumps including changing to a moving coil cartridge and phono preamp as well as the larger Harbeth Compact 7-ES3 speakers. The Ortofon Cadenza red provides amazing bang for the buck with a taste of the big boys' performance. The Compact 7s are simply the finest speaker of their size and will provide nearly full range sound in a room around 14 x 16. Perreaux Audiant 80i Amplifier Pro-Ject RPM 9.2 Turntable with Ortofon Cadenza red cartridge Graham Slee Reflex C phono pre-amplifier Harbeth Compact 7-ES3 Speakers Price: $10999.99 Level 8 Level 8 replaces the RPM 9.2 with Kuzma Stabi S turntable, Although they look similar, the greater mass, superior machining and superb unipivot tonearm a makes the Kuzma a revelation in comparison. Greater dynamics, blacker backgrounds and simply purer music. The separate MM phono preamp and MC step up allows completely adjustable loading and higher performance. This system is getting close to "as real as it gets". Perreaux eloquence 150i Integrated Amplifier Kuzma Stabi S Turntable with 47 Labs MC Bee cartridge Graham Slee Era Gold Reflex & Elevator phono preamps Harbeth Compact 7-ES3 Speakers Price: $14999.99 Level 9 Level 9 is getting into magic territory. Same great synergy and tonality as Level 8 but with more texture, life and "realness". This comes from the better phono stage - one of the finest in the world regardless of price - the 47 Labs Phonocube phono preamp. When you hear it, you will know. It is our vote for the finest solid-state preamp in the world. Finally the SHL5 speakers provide just that much more "oomph" with their larger box. They convey the energy of recordings in an astonishing way. Perfectly suited to a room around 16 x 20. Perreaux eloquence 150i Integrated Amplifier Kuzma Stabi PS Turntable with 47 Labs MC Bee cartridge 47 Labs Phonocube Phono Preamp Harbeth SHL5 Speakers Price: $21999.99 Level 10 The top of the heap. All the components are world-leading in their own right and will outperform those costing many times as much, but when you put them all together here a magic synergy propels this system exponentially beyond its price. It will outperform just about anything under $100k. We have spent our entire career looking for the synergy found here. Noteable is the jump to the Kuzma Stabi Ref turntable and tonearm, a reference tool for vinyl replay. We keep the 47 Labs cartridge and phono stage because they just can't be beat. The final piece is the Harbeth Monitor 40.1. Simply our pick for the world's best all-round speaker. Truly full range with unforced dynamics, warmth and infinitely layered detail. Pin-point soundstaging and naturality with no fatigue. Suitable for concert level volume and dynamics if you have the room - ideally 18 x 24 or thereabouts. Perreaux eloquence 150i Integrated Amplifier Kuzma Stabi Ref Turntable with 47 Labs MC Bee cartridge 47 Labs Phonocube Phono Preamp Harbeth Monitor 40.1 Speakers Price: $35999.99