That would be me. The Benz stereo is plain sucky B*se. I don't see any need to upgrade My home setup right now includes...

Magnepan 1.6QR
Classe CAP150 (used as preamp)
One pair of VTL MB250 monoblocks
Kimber silver cable and interconnects
Calaudio CL15 CD player
Tice power conditioning

That's it, straightforward. Future upgrades:

PSAudio powerplant
Magnepan 3.6r
Sony Superaudio CD player

Kuan (2 channel lover)