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Hello there !!!!
Will somebody please tell me what should i buy with $ 1000. Any suggestions of any kind are welcome. Here are some brands i'm thinking of: DENON, MARANTZ, ROTEL, NAD, ONKYO, YAMAHA, KEF, TANNOY, B&W, MISSION, INFINITY. And what about TECHNICS stuff. Is it worthwhile. I have some facillities on buying it, but i am a little skeptical about TECHNICS. What could you tell me about it ??? I must tell you that i want a cd player with a carrousel system, i mostly hear classical music and the room is 7 m breadth and 3 m length. If i bought separate parts, i would buy a cd player, an amplifier and speakers.
Thank you all
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Can only talk from my own personal experience, but at the price the new Kef Q series speakers are hard to beat. Good sound from a budget speaker. I bought a Harman Kardon Surround amp and a matched set of the Kef's. The Harman Kardon has a fair amount of "grunt" given its price point and doesn't destroy all the detail, better warmer sound than the Onkyo in my opinion. The kef's (I'm talking about the lates ones, seem to exhibit more detail in the treble than earlier guises. Critisisms? The mid is a little forward, but at this money what do you expect. Good bang for your buck, sounds decent on classical music. If this system doesn't suit your need, I would look at secondhand equipement, you will get more for your money that way.Regards
Roland
Thank you Roland for your reply. I, too, think that i would buy better stuff with this amount of money if i chose second hand material, but i live in PORTUGAL. There's no way i can buy it. If i only lived in the States or U.K. !!!
Hi Jose,I live in your neighbour country Spain. I think you should have a look at royalaudio.com. Itīs a second hand HI FI shop in Barcelona where you can buy good second hand gear (they will even give you a 3 month guarantee on al you purchase). Prices are in Euros and i donīt think you will have to pay custom tax living in the EEC. If you donīt like what you buy, you can part exchange your purchase (you loose 15 %) on a new buy.
Hope that helps.
Alex, Spain.
While the shipping is expensive from the US it is probably not so bad from Northern Europe or Britain. And you can find some good deals. I love looking at the pictures on ebay. Audiogon is a website short on pictures but has nearly all good equipment, a lot of it demos, closeouts, etc. Be careful though. I would look for someone with no more than 1% bad feedback i.e. 1 in 100 transactions. I think it's usually better to buy from an audio dealer with a reputation to protect or an individual owner with all positive feedback, as opposed to an auctioneer/ estate liquidator. Folks in the latter category may have never shipped a turntable before and despite their good intentions it arrives broken. And try to avoid components that weigh a lot (:Good luck,
Peter
the cheaper sony stuff is crap nowadays, it's a shame 'cause even the old budget stuff used to be well made.stear clear of new technics stuff too- every single peice of technics gear i've owned or worked with has failed after a short period.
i'd go with denon, pioneer and yamaha for budget gear.
Hi Jose,Your post doesn't specify exactly what it is you want to buy for $1000. If I use your last sentence as a guide, it seems you want a whole system.
If I has $1000 to spend on a music system, the first thing I'd do is get a pair of Magnepan MMG speakers ($550/pair). I'd also get some Nordost Flatline speaker cables ($100/10ft. pair) and maybe one of their Black Knight interconnects ($80/meter pair). That totals $730 and leaves $270 left for a CD player and a receiver.
With $270, I'd look at a Sony CD player and Sony receiver (perhaps STR D-135 ? for ~$150).
Hope this helps.
There are many roads to sonic pleasure. In my experience, Magnepan speakers will not fail to please.Happy Listening!
Barry
Why Sony?The cheap consumer (Sony) recevers have so much bass boost at "flat"...they will make you gag.
I would opt for a used adcom 535 and a foreplay for the front-end with the setup you describe.
A good used yamaha CD player would also yield some accuracy...if it was one of there natural sound pre 1995 units.
"The cheap consumer (Sony) recevers have so much bass boost at "flat"...they will make you gag."I believe the Maggies (particularly with the Nordost) that will make the difference in this system. With ~$270 for electronics and source, in my experience Sony is a good buy. While I wouldn't compare the Sonys with the best of the best, I've not heard them display the bass boost of which you speak.
The Yamahas to my ear, display a peakiness in the lower treble that quickly grows tiresome. I tend to prefer errors of omission as opposed to those of commission as I find it much easier to ignore missing information than to ignore spurious information, especially in the upper midrange and lower treble.
Happy Listening!
Barry
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