There are long standing threads for speaker and amplifier porn on HC. Thus far, sources have been neglected. It's true, speakers and amps are in general better looking units than most sources but there are certainly some good looking ones out there.

Let's start with a mid 80s Revox CDP that is a bit of a legend amongst collectors: The Revox B225. It's overbuilt like a MFer, which is good as it's also prone to failure and in need of extensive servicing. I just watched a really good YouTube video on repairing one while I was editing a whole stack of photos.

TL;DW: A whole pile of Swiss engineering, dirty electrical contacts and a new motor.

There were some variants with balanced out and at least one meant for professional use:
Love those green lights.

The following is less porn in the "hubba hubba" meaning and more in the "fake, unsatisfying and containing gratuitous bulbous objects" sense.

LampizatOr is a Polish based manufacturer of, ahem, "ultra high end" DACs, music servers and totally-not-snake-oil cables. They share a 90s l33t sp34k brand name similar to Switzerland's darTZeel (whom I have mocked mercilessly over the years.) Recently LampizatOr came out with a new DAC. It's called the Aphrodite, it has a bunch of tubes sticking out the top and can be yours for the low, low price is $105,000. Tariffs not included. The Aphrodite has tubes in places in the signal chain where tubes don't normally go. This "revolutionary" and "iconoclastic" design philosophy is enough to make one wonder where Mikhail Rotenberg scampered off to, but I digress... Anyway, on to the toobs like fake boobs:

Pardon me for a second. All that and USB A?!? In twenty twenty fucking SIX? Get with the USB-C times, old man.

The following photos were online in such absurdly large size that I had to scale them down, and I'm someone who shoots with a 45MP camera body.

I have legit never heard of "XDMI" before.

As someone with freakishly large hands and increasingly bad eyesight, this remote looks like pure pain to use.

Thank you for watching TubeDAC ...Tube. Maybe next time I'll post some Polish gear I actually like.

Edited 35 minutes ago35 min by Knuckledragger