Here is my ideal system--

money is not an issue

DECK-- Audio Technica LP5

SPEAKERS-- KEF LS50

AMP-- Cambridge CXA60

STANDS-- Atacama Moseco 6

CABLES-- QED Original White Speaker Cable

[Two @ 5m long with terminal plugs]

Any possibility of this being available and where might be the places to look?

Have to come down from Chiang Rai so need as much good advice as possible!

Fortune Town has some pretty serious HiFi shops.

Piyanas sell all the brands on your list except for the stands:

http://www.piyanas.com/?page_id=173

If you are sure enough of what you want to buy without auditioning the equipment, you don't need to make a special trip to Bangkok. I had a Cambridge Audio Music Streamer sent to Udonthani by Piyanas a while back.

It might not interest you, but you have a man in Chiang Rai who makes tube amps to order. He advertises on Alibaba under Jintana Audio Trading. If I were up your way I'd want to take a look.

I like Piyanas; they cut my budget into shreds for surrounds with my embarrassingly cheap pair of Andrew Jones boxes.

I detest all shops that dont put prices on items, and try to avoid them whenever possible.

Lol, i have some andrew jones boxes, but they didnt give me a budget cut :c oh well i guess .

On 7/9/2016 at 7:33 AM, IMHO said:

Piyanas sell all the brands on your list except for the stands:

http://www.piyanas.com/?page_id=173

Many thanks- what a great site; been looking for months but didn't find this.

On 7/9/2016 at 10:00 AM, bouph12 said:

If you are sure enough of what you want to buy without auditioning the equipment, you don't need to make a special trip to Bangkok. I had a Cambridge Audio Music Streamer sent to Udonthani by Piyanas a while back.

It might not interest you, but you have a man in Chiang Rai who makes tube amps to order. He advertises on Alibaba under Jintana Audio Trading. If I were up your way I'd want to take a look.

Brilliant! Will contact the tube amp guy. 

Have had a change of plan, to high-end headphones due to having been 'told off' for having my TV too loud in my condo! 

Either planar or electrostatics, if I can find them. Makes the amplification cheaper [well, not for the E/S's] in all probability

A good pair of Grado, Stax or Sennheiser headphones and a designated headphone amp (maybe valve, or TEAC make some stonkers) is a good choice.

 

I had some Stax electrostatics and loved them, but no comparison to turning up speakers and walking around the room/doing stuff at the same time.