Who has the best hi-fi set up on Pistonheads????

Who has the best hi-fi set up on Pistonheads????

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Wacky Racer

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38,099 posts

246 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Just wondered who has the best "bling" hi-fi set up on Pistonheads, would love to see some piccies, here's mine, although it could do with updating a little bit.........

Get Carter eat your heart out........

















alexkp

16,484 posts

243 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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I have a NAD home cinema system with ceiling screen and projector.

It's pretty good, but there are guys here who are real audiophiles....

vixpy1

42,620 posts

263 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Ok, more home cinema that Hi-Fi. And all the bits are hidden away.


opieoilman

4,408 posts

235 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Havent got a picture.

At the moment.

Down stairs.

Musical Fidelity Amp.
Musical Fidelity CD player.
B&W Floor standers.

Bedroom.

Arcam Amp.
Marantz CD player.
B&W DM5 stand speakers.

SiOsbon

3,810 posts

239 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Currently

Musical fidelity Amp
Marantz CD player
Misson floorstanders

Mr E

21,583 posts

258 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Nakamichi AV10 amp.

Everything else is currently a bit crap (cheap Kenwood/Sony)

trevorw

2,875 posts

281 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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vixpy1 said:
Ok, more home cinema that Hi-Fi. And all the bits are hidden away.




That looks nice, ive still only got a 25" 4:3 TV

Plotloss

67,280 posts

269 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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I have a crap stereo, a Kenwood UD-952 mini system which I bought on credit with my first job. I earned £9K pa the stereo cost £1500.

In my defense I do have a lot of music though.

I really should buy a decent stereo at some point...

Number 14986

18,016 posts

265 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Funny thing with music. Sometimes it sounds better when played on crap kit than good stuff. For eg., I think Invisible Sun sounded better played through my awful little Medium Wave tranny in 1981 than it sounds on the ARCAM set up I have now.

Sparks

1,217 posts

278 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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very mediocre mine

Rega Planet
Rega Planar
Musical Fidelity amp
Castle seven speakers

A friend of the family had the following (a few years ago now)

Twin box Wadia CD (£10K!)
Linn Sondek/Ittok/Troika + all upgrades
Naim Tuner
Naim pre + 6 power amps
Linn Isobarik speakers

Total new price at the time £40K (more than the house I was living in at the time )

Sparks

GregE240

10,857 posts

266 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Yes you should, Matt. I'm ashamed of you, all that bloody music too.

Me? Sony everything with Pascal 5+1 speaker setup.

Nice compromise between movies and music. The satellites are on glass spiked stands.

Which is nice.

OK, its not audiophile, but it sounds pretty good.

viper_larry

4,319 posts

255 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Plotloss said:
I have a crap stereo, a Kenwood UD-952 mini system which I bought on credit with my first job. I earned £9K pa the stereo cost £1500.

In my defense I do have a lot of music though.

I really should buy a decent stereo at some point...
Same here! For some reason, any other kit has to be updated regularly except HiFi. I have a 20 year of 'Fisher' (not Fisher Price ) portable system in the spare bedroom I bought when I earnt £6k a year, and the Pioneer mini system in the bedroom that I bought 13 years ago and still going strong!

I have no defense

ErnestM

11,615 posts

266 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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I just added the new Sony STR-DE997 receiver to my system. Is this thing ever wonderful. It actually upconverts S-Video to Component. It's a whole new world for some of our ancient VHS tapes...


ErnestM

SiOsbon

3,810 posts

239 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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viper_larry said:

Plotloss said:
I have a crap stereo, a Kenwood UD-952 mini system which I bought on credit with my first job. I earned £9K pa the stereo cost £1500.

In my defense I do have a lot of music though.

I really should buy a decent stereo at some point...

Same here! For some reason, any other kit has to be updated regularly except HiFi. I have a 20 year of 'Fisher' (not Fisher Price ) portable system in the spare bedroom I bought when I earnt £6k a year, and the Pioneer mini system in the bedroom that I bought 13 years ago and still going strong!

I have no defense


Sometimes the older system sounds better than the newer ones.

Its taken my dad ages to upgrade to his new system:

Musical Fidelity pre amp
Musical Fidelity power amp
Musical Fidelity CD Player
Sometype of exotic speaker.

But then again he did start off with:

Luxman Amp
Bose 901 speakers
First sony CD Player when it hit the market << sounded crap
Reel to Reel
Yamaha wedge shaped cassette deck

The only reason he upgraded was the old stuff started to die and it was cheaper to upgrade then fix the existing stuff.

YarisSi

1,537 posts

243 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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You haven't heard anything until you have heard $30K ceramic speakers.

What is the rega stuff like I was thinking of getting the planet and biro? How much did they cost (if don't mind?

I have Budget student system. Budget sony cd, old nice Goodman speakers, non discript receiver/amp which i hate and a leak throughline 3 mono receiver, which is nice but need to get renovated. DOes anyone know anywhere were I can get it serviced?


>> Edited by YarisSi on Friday 11th February 13:22

rico

7,916 posts

254 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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My brother posts on here a bit, he has a full Tag McLaren setup running into a Plasma. Sounds fantastic! As good as Linn's £40k showoff setup in Harrods imo.

jimothy

5,151 posts

236 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Gibson and a Marshall amp sound better than any HiFi!!

Also use a mac, MOTU964HD and some Yamaha MPX3 monitors. Sound quality like wot the original engineer wanted.

SiOsbon

3,810 posts

239 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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YarisSi said:
You haven't heard anything until you have heard $30K ceramic speakers.

What is the rega stuff like I was thinking of getting the planet and biro? How much did they cost (if don't mind?

I have Budget student system. Budget sony cd, old nice Goodman speakers, non discript receiver/amp which i hate and a leak throughline 3 mono receiver, which is nice but need to get renovated. DOes anyone know anywhere were I can get it serviced?


>> Edited by YarisSi on Friday 11th February 13:22


Try something like:

[url]www.kellysearch.com/gb-product-5523.html[/url]

bruciebabie

895 posts

235 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Not the best on Pistonheads, but it gives me that "natural" sound. Not too bright or too much bass.
cd: Arcam Alfa 7SE
amp: NAD C370
speakers: B&W DM604 S2
I've heard more expensive systems that I don't like. B&O for instance.

nicecupoftea

25,280 posts

250 months

Friday 11th February 2005
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Arcam CD72 CD player
Arcam Alpha 9 amp
Mission 731 speakers

speakers, whilst still very good, are the weak link. They will suffice until such time that I have spare cash floating around!