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Hi-Fi systems
- Thread starter chrismpw
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Blue 1
Player Valuation: £70m
Finally managed this a couple of years ago and got some B&W 707 s2 speakers and a PS Audio Sprout 100 amp. Very happy with them, although I am already looking to upgrade the amp to something a bit beefier. A friend who works in R&D for B&W got me the correct stands for the speakers for next to nothing as well, which was nice. They're £400 if you buy them new.
Nice job!
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
What's the bottle, and aren't playstations a bit childish and a waste of time and all that gumf?
Have they got Bluetooth 5.0?
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
A cheap merlot. And the ps is my source of non miserable, non cheating football.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Absolutely not!
I was going to post my stuff, but it's absolutely nothing compared to some of the set ups I've seen here.
Not to be a curmudgeon but hi-fi is all snake oil to me. The only thing you have to worry about is the quality of your source material and quality of power. There are billions of speakers out there that you can get that will do the job. Your ears are just like your tastebuds, everybody's different so everyone will have likes and personal dislikes to a particular setup. It's about finding one that works for you. Obviously if you have quality source material and quality power, you don't want to use $10 speakers, but you don't need $10,000 ones either, that's a bunch of nonsense in my experience.
If music be the food of love, play on.
If music be the food of love, play on.
I'd tend to agree. I have a pair of Sonos speakers playing mp3's and flac's off a NAS shared drive. One speaker is wired the other is connected via WiFi because of their location within my house. I could make both wired if I was bothered, but 99% of the time its not an issue. As long as there's not a lot of traffic on the WiFi network its flawless. But then I'm in my 50's now, and not in my teens or twenties, so my hearing naturally isn't what it used to be, so the quality is very acceptable to me now, whereas maybe back then I might have been more picky. But I also am a lot more picky as to what I listen to, rather than the pure audio quality of it.
No longer connect the Sonos speakers to the phone or windows controller app, so won't be getting any more of their "updates" which are actually downgrades. If they fell apart tomorrow, I'd go for a different brand that are not robbing bar-stewards.
Like the vinyl revival.
People claim it's how the artist wanted it to hear (despite not being there or knowing anyone who was) and ignore that the most pressing consideration with a mix back in the day of vinyl was ensuring it would play nice with the crappy little record players in teenage bedrooms.
Lots of mixes got sent back to the studio for being too loud or bass-y. The artists 'vision' was not taken too much into consideration.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
If it brings joy or satisfaction it's good enough.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
There's a LOT of snake oil - especially on the topic of cables ... a pal who want to become an agent selling for an esoteric French firm was asked to pay £40,000 up front for some fancy cables in his show room. Just a pair. At this point we chatted ... I was on the verge of buying a very expensive pair of drivers from that firm, for the project above. Both of us had been asked to pay by bank transfer... which rang alarm bells with me ... what if the company is about to go bust? We walked away.
Cables do make a difference- and it's down to how well the impedance and capacitance team up with the rest of the system ... there is very, very little correlation to cost.
My view is - if you like it it's good.