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Objectively what is the most accurate to the disc system - Engineers!!

Posted by RGA (R) on May 14, 2006 at 00:05:14

I am going to build a second system down the road "for the hell of it" just see if what I end up with is truly as good as reported.

I am asking engineers because they shall save me a lot of money -- No expensive cables will be needed, a Crown or Hafler amplifier are reltively cheap on the used market.

Please allow for a list of amplifiers that would be deemed "as perfect as amplifiers can get" so that I have a better chance of finding them used -- Solid State amplifiers depreciate very fast indeed -- so I should be good with $200.00 for the power amp section. I trust that any of my cd players will do but I want no arguments on this -- I want objectively the most accurate cd player (not a high end cd player that deliberately adds pleasing (or Euphonic) sound. Just soup to nuts dead on accurate.

All that front end rubbish is out of the way and used I can get it all for cheap. I am also willing to go used on speakers.

The absolute no holds barred absolute mathematically proven most truthful to the disc speakers available. Apogee Diva? NHT Xd? Bose 901 with improved tweeters, Horns, Skywalker Sound's N801.

My preference has NOTHING to do with it -- I want the absolute objectively proven most accurate to the disc system and thus speakers. Be they panels, sub satelites, Linkwitz speakers, professional speakers used in recording studios such as Genelic or PMC etc. The speaker would have to be perfectly flat, with bass and treble extension beyond the limits of human hearing (20hz-20khz) And yes I am willing to add as amy subwoofers as required to achieve it -- again used subs are cheap.

I am willing to use any digital processor that is recommended and detailed instructions of where and which room treatments to use.

Only stipulations is Please don't suggest DIY or for me to add on drivers -- Damn it Jim I'm a consumer not an engineer or woodworker.

I was looking on the net and depending ultimately on what is objectively considered the most accurate disc reproducing speaker then I am betting that the system could very well be around $1500.00$2000.00. not including modest repairs I might have to have made to get them up and running.

Lastly the provision is that the stereo needs to work in an average home living rooms -- say between 12X15 to 17X25 or so. Also, the room will be built around the speakers so if it needs corners, or the long or short wall or it needs to be hung from the ceiling or well away from furniture all of this I shall accomodate. No size limit on the speakers either so long as they will fit a 8-9 foot ceiling. So the room is a clean slate -- Assume carpeting however and a typical home in British Columbia which will be made from wood not concrete or brick in most cases.

I figure hey -- the used market is filled with all this stuff used so bring it on. (I have a Marantz 4300 80 watt receiver) and Cambridge Audio CD 6 player, Sony 355 300 disc cd player, Apsire Digital DVD/CD player, and a Panasonic portable cd player on hand to be used as the source. Please let me know if any of this can be used as either my amplification or cd player and or what needs to be replaced.

This should be a fun second set-up to create down the road.

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