Separates Hi-Fi for £250-£300
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Chaps,
I'm looking to get myself a separates system for the house (up until now the only good set of speakers I have are my Shure earphones and I hate wearing earphones around the house). I'm looking to spend about £300 but could possibly stretch if something really tasty is just beyond that.
I'm looking for 2 bookshelf speakers, a receiver and an iPod dock.
For the receiver I'd like a TOSlink input for my Mac.
I'm looking to get myself a separates system for the house (up until now the only good set of speakers I have are my Shure earphones and I hate wearing earphones around the house). I'm looking to spend about £300 but could possibly stretch if something really tasty is just beyond that.
I'm looking for 2 bookshelf speakers, a receiver and an iPod dock.
For the receiver I'd like a TOSlink input for my Mac.
Those denons are pretty good or you could go second hand.
I have a yamaha dsp-ax750se in black for sale for £160, excellent condition and you could buy some good bookshelf speakers such as any of these:-
http://www.m.richersounds.com/products/hi-fi-separ...
And in my opinion you'd have a decent 2 channel system you can easily upgrade to surround if you wanted.
Finally, you can drive 2 sets of speakers i.e a pair in your lounge and a pair in the kitchen (or wherever!).
I have a yamaha dsp-ax750se in black for sale for £160, excellent condition and you could buy some good bookshelf speakers such as any of these:-
http://www.m.richersounds.com/products/hi-fi-separ...
And in my opinion you'd have a decent 2 channel system you can easily upgrade to surround if you wanted.
Finally, you can drive 2 sets of speakers i.e a pair in your lounge and a pair in the kitchen (or wherever!).
heisthegaffer said:
Those denons are pretty good or you could go second hand.
I have a yamaha dsp-ax750se in black for sale for £160, excellent condition and you could buy some good bookshelf speakers such as any of these:-
http://www.m.richersounds.com/products/hi-fi-separ...
And in my opinion you'd have a decent 2 channel system you can easily upgrade to surround if you wanted.
Finally, you can drive 2 sets of speakers i.e a pair in your lounge and a pair in the kitchen (or wherever!).
mine is an amp only by the way but i have a decent marantz tuner and ipod dock for sale so if your interested please pm me.I have a yamaha dsp-ax750se in black for sale for £160, excellent condition and you could buy some good bookshelf speakers such as any of these:-
http://www.m.richersounds.com/products/hi-fi-separ...
And in my opinion you'd have a decent 2 channel system you can easily upgrade to surround if you wanted.
Finally, you can drive 2 sets of speakers i.e a pair in your lounge and a pair in the kitchen (or wherever!).
try xtz speakers direct from sweeden great quality at very good prices as they deal direct
i had these and loved them combined with a cambridge audio 640av2 amp
http://www.xtz.se/uk/products/speakers/93-wmt_2
i had these and loved them combined with a cambridge audio 640av2 amp
http://www.xtz.se/uk/products/speakers/93-wmt_2
Richer sounds is where i would go, check this out.
http://www.richersounds.com/package/system-savers/...
add an appletv2 to your media setup and stream from mac or iPod/iphone
Second hand all day for that budget.
OK, mine is slightly over that budget, but does serve as an example. I've got a Harman Kardon HK6550 amp (£150 off ebay), a pair of Rega Elas from a hifi forum (£100) and a Beresford DAC (£120 new but second hand will be cheaper on the bay), and after dicking around with hifi systems for many years, this one produces a sound that is, I would say, 80% as good as the very best systems I've heard (costing many thousands). The point is though, I've been there and got the T-shirt with "Richer Sounds" type systems, and believe me, some carefully chosen second hand components will leave any newly bought RS type system at that sort of price in the weeds.
Second hand hifi represents excellent value because hifi people tend to be the type who are rarely happy with what they've got, so constantly upgrade, or people who think that the latest is the best. Really, hifi stuff hasn't really moved on in recent years, it pretty much reached its peak in the 90s IMO.
OK, mine is slightly over that budget, but does serve as an example. I've got a Harman Kardon HK6550 amp (£150 off ebay), a pair of Rega Elas from a hifi forum (£100) and a Beresford DAC (£120 new but second hand will be cheaper on the bay), and after dicking around with hifi systems for many years, this one produces a sound that is, I would say, 80% as good as the very best systems I've heard (costing many thousands). The point is though, I've been there and got the T-shirt with "Richer Sounds" type systems, and believe me, some carefully chosen second hand components will leave any newly bought RS type system at that sort of price in the weeds.
Second hand hifi represents excellent value because hifi people tend to be the type who are rarely happy with what they've got, so constantly upgrade, or people who think that the latest is the best. Really, hifi stuff hasn't really moved on in recent years, it pretty much reached its peak in the 90s IMO.
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