Top quality Hi-Fi components help.

[outnumbered]

Consider the Devialet Phantom - the higher power version should be OK for a workshop I think. Minimal box count, and will go L O U D. They've been getting very positive reviews. OK, so it's not old tech...

[T1547]

Storer said:

I will point back to my post of yesterday.

If I had a dedicated room to sit and listen to music it could double as a bedroom. If I sit doing nothing I tend to fall asleep, no matter how loud the noise around me is...

The comment of 'money no object' was probably misleading. I intend to buy second hand and am in no rush so I can wait for the right item.

Showing my age here.
In the early 1970's I used to attended many dances with some of the best local mobile discos which were fun and sounded good..............until we upped the scale and had the Radio 1 roadshow with DLT, TB, JW.
The difference in sound quality was astonishing especially as it was also louder.

That is what I want to achieve, in a less than ideal building.

Not an answer to your original question I'm afraid (I don't think there is one - it's too subjective) but the best thing you could do would be to drop in to your local hifi dealer and have a listen to what's out there at the moment in your price range. I hope you don't mind me saying it seems like you've been away from the 'scene' for a while so a demo session with a dealer might be quite an eye (ear) opening experience and provide you with clarity in deciding what you want from a system.

Edited by T1547 on Saturday 5th December 20:32

[JonV8V]

Classic old..

Linn sondek if you like vinyl
Naim CDI CD player (although a modern one might be better)
Naim pre amp, 82 or 52 with appropriate power supply's.
Naim power, min is a 250 or a couple of mono blocks
Kef reference 105/3 or model 4 (I think) speakers.

All the Naim stuff will be olive in colour. Lots of money on speaker cable.

Even at 20 years old that lots might set you back 4K or more but will create a massive and very full image, powerful bass and what the flat earth community call PRaT (Google as its not a joke)

I was there once (whimsically sighs)

[Crackie]

T1547 said:

Storer said:

I will point back to my post of yesterday.

If I had a dedicated room to sit and listen to music it could double as a bedroom. If I sit doing nothing I tend to fall asleep, no matter how loud the noise around me is...

The comment of 'money no object' was probably misleading. I intend to buy second hand and am in no rush so I can wait for the right item.

Showing my age here.
In the early 1970's I used to attended many dances with some of the best local mobile discos which were fun and sounded good..............until we upped the scale and had the Radio 1 roadshow with DLT, TB, JW.
The difference in sound quality was astonishing especially as it was also louder.

That is what I want to achieve, in a less than ideal building.

Not an answer to your original question I'm afraid (I don't think there is one - it's too subjective) but the best thing you could do would be to drop in to your local hifi dealer and have a listen to what's out there at the moment in your price range. I hope you don't mind me saying it seems like you've been away from the 'scene' for a while so a demo session with a dealer might be quite an eye (ear) opening experience and provide you with clarity in deciding what you want from a system.

Edited by T1547 on Saturday 5th December 20:32

I agree that Storer should have a listen to what's available but not at the local Hi-Fi dealer; Storer has made it clear that the brief is to achieve a sound like his local disco from the early 70's, playing 60s and 70s rock. The listening room / workshop is very big, 1750 square feet with a high ceiling, so Hi-FI gear isn't likely to cope. I think PA gear is needed rather than Hi-Fi............

JBL, Yamaha, Mackie, Electro-voice, RCF, DB Technologies make active systems which should all have suitable products.

http://www.dv247.com/search/3067/0/ProductPrice/As...

Storer...........there is DV247 on Mill Road in Cambridge.....like the Ultima by the way.

Edited by Crackie on Sunday 6th December 19:59

[Watchman]

Mother of God..!! If only I had £32K, I'd fire it at this lot:




http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LINN-ISOBARIK-NAIM-NAP-1...

[theboss]

ianrb said:

I thought Linn's current 'Aktiv' speakers had built in power amps, in line with the more usual definition of active speakers. Although the Isobariks are an older design, and I'm not sure exactly (or is that exaktly?) what they did way back when.

It varies - some models have built-in amps and crossovers (and DACs in the case of their Exakt products) - others can be bought as traditional passive speakers but then converted to akiv operation with exernal crossovers before or inside the power amps.

Some of them are a bit of both - if they still sell Klimax 350p these have active powered bass and then passive mid-range and 3k array which - as you may have guessed - can be made active with external crossovers.

Nice, simple and consistent, eh?

I have a pair of active (powered) Akubarik and I like the simplicity of just taking a balanced interconnect and mains cable to each unit, plus they sound great. The Exakt version would see you running Cat5 to each speaker from one of their DSM units. No more 'expensive' analogue cables in sight!