Recent content by Kung fu dog

After reading a couple of posts about various speaker choices in this price area. Like the MA bx2 ,W diamonds , etc. I was just wondering what the same money secondhand gets you. Does the quality of new technology out do the older speakers even though the older speakers where higher price units...

Hurricane , Bob Dylan

Sadly the Harbeths alone would swallow my whole budget. I m more in the £1500 range. I was thinking £500 per component . Possible I would only need to worry about matching my system to music taste if my budget was larger. Why would a manufacturer produce a system that wasn't balanced or is that...

At the moment my system is fairly old ( 20 yr old rotel amp, 15/20 yr old mission speakers and a 12 yr old arcam CD player ) . All still works fine but I recently bought a little sony hi res player and using it with a set of b&w p5 headphones has amazed me with its quality. Especially playing...

How much does your music taste affect your system picks? Is it a good idea to try to suit to a particular style of music or just aim for a good general set up. My personal taste , judging by my cd collection , tends to be male vocals in guitar based bands, often acoustic . So for this is there...

I m very interested in this approach. I rarely play cd's these days and since buying a little sony hi res player I m amazed by the quality I can get from the little device through headphones . The idea of using this plus my nas to play through a dac into an amp then speakers seems a bit...

Man of the world - fleetwood mac .

This is a great thread. Introduced me to loads of new music. my song is , shakey graves - dearly departed. love it !

Thanks for the replies. What I suppose I m looking for is to see if there is any improvement to be gained be upgrading individual components. The detail that I get from the little hi res player and some b&w p5 headphones far surpasses what's coming out of my hi fi. I also wonder if still playing...

I have a seagate central. I ve actually found it a real pain to use . Cuts in and out on playback and is not easy to navigate the menus or transfer stuff to.

Hi , I m a newbie here so sorry to start with a question.i m looking to improve my current hi fi set up I currently have a rotel ra-810a amp, arcam alpha 7se cd feeding some mission 761 speakers. I also have a 2tb nas drive which I m attempting to shift my cd's to and a sony portable hi res...