Any HI-FI Buffs on here ?? I need some advice.
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jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
My mate has the latest all in one system that streams music from every device imaginable and is always banging on about how amazing it is. I heard it and it sounds shite.
He came round to mine and I showed him how music should sound through my separates system (Arcam dual dac CD player, 2 Rotel mono power amps & Rotel pre amp, bi wired to B&W 603 series 3 speakers)
He was blown away by the sound
Keep it old skool
He came round to mine and I showed him how music should sound through my separates system (Arcam dual dac CD player, 2 Rotel mono power amps & Rotel pre amp, bi wired to B&W 603 series 3 speakers)
He was blown away by the sound
Keep it old skool
Broadside
Legendary Member
- Location
- Fleet, Hants
I used to have separates, then when kids came along I went to a Denon mini system.
I um'd and ah'd for a long time but finally got Sonos and stream music from my computer and Spotify now.
All my CDs are in the loft and everything is available on demand and the same music plays throughout the house if I want. I wish I had done it sooner. It has completely changed our listening habits and we listen to music far more as a result.
I um'd and ah'd for a long time but finally got Sonos and stream music from my computer and Spotify now.
All my CDs are in the loft and everything is available on demand and the same music plays throughout the house if I want. I wish I had done it sooner. It has completely changed our listening habits and we listen to music far more as a result.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
My 2 Quad 303s are used as 2 channel mono poweramps wired to B&W 602 S3s with the shorting bars removed (hence the 4 pairs of speaker cables)
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
I recently dug mine out or retirement. The CD carrier had given up and no parts available at the little man so I got a replacement off the 'bay. I then fused the amp and discovered a loose wire in the plug, so a trip to Maplins for some 1a quick blows. I'd forgotten how good it sounds. No more MP3 crap for me.
NAD CD player, Cyrus One Amp, Mission 761 speakers on floor spike stands. Old Skool? Yep. 'Kin awesome? Yep. Budget stuff when I bought it in 1990. Just the Dual turntable to sort and I'm done.
NAD CD player, Cyrus One Amp, Mission 761 speakers on floor spike stands. Old Skool? Yep. 'Kin awesome? Yep. Budget stuff when I bought it in 1990. Just the Dual turntable to sort and I'm done.
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
Yeah, I bet they've all got those phono leads made out of unicorn vas deferens, too...
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Some of them are silly money
http://www.googleadservices.com/pag...eshop.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=3318
But decent gold terminated OFC leads do me just fine and dandy (£35 to £40)
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Go down the Sonos route - the Sonos community forums are very helpful. £500 should get you heading in the right direction.
Rip all your CD's to FLAC's or WAV's - MP3 is compressed tosh with a whole load of information missing. You can then stream your CD collection to the Sonos.
Sonos will accept an input from your turntable although you will almost certainly need a phono pre-amp which are not expensive (although some are stupid prices).
AFAIK you can use your Heybrooks with the Sonos. They were/are good speakers but they may need a small refurb' after all these years - kits are still available.
I have a pretty good system (Sugden Masterclass amp', Dynaudio speakers and Bluesound Node 2 streamer) and the switch from CD to streamed music was a game changer.
Whole CD library can be set to play at random or by artist or by genre etc. Playlists (we have loads for different moods/occasions) can be set up and accessed easily. All accessed with a few dabs on an app' - we have a dedicated tablet for it but a smartphone will do the same thing.
Make the leap - you won't regret it.
Just my 2-penneth on vinyl - faithful sound ruined by snap, crackle and pop and (with a decent system) that ghastly 'wowing' noise made by a warped disc - which most were to some degree. A dinosaur medium oft' remembered through the audible equivalent of rose tinted spec's.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
15 years out of date?
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Or in the case of my 1967 Quad 303s 49yrs out of date.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Quality stuff is never out of date. Sonos will be a relic in a few weeks, and spotify is shite.
phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
Had a similar discussion with a friend of mine about speakers and I much prefer my 20 year old models than the current ones.
swee'pea99
Squire
I know this is, of all the issues that exercise hifi nuts (and god knows there are enough of them) arguably the daddy of them all, and I certainly don't want to get into any kind of debate about it (each to his own is my philosophy, as with most things other than incest and morris dancing) but I do think vinyl delivers something digital doesn't. I've never heard this 'ghastly 'wowing' noise' (I guess I don't have a decent enough system), and as for the snap, crackle & pop, I find a proper clean eliminates pretty much all of it, and what remains doesn't bother me in the least.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I bet expensive cables vs. cheap cables is the 'helmet' debate of the home audio forums.
According my mate, a sound recordist, quality cables make all the difference.
According to my brother, an electronics engineer... it's all marketing bull.
All i know is, my gold plated OFC 'quality' cables sound exactly the same as cables i knocked up myself using doorbell wire and badly soldered phono plugs from Tandy.
