Recent content by Reef

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    Matching speakers to the fronts

    Yea I think your right, prob try and get HTM61 and keep it balanced, do it in stages as i can afford start with the front end and worry about the back latter. I dont have a receiver yet but was planning on finding one with pre outs and driving the fronts with my 2ch music amp, try and have the...
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    Matching speakers to the fronts

    Hi, im looking at adding some speakers to my B&W 683's s1 to create a 5.1 for the t.v I was initially going throw any random 2nd hand speakers into the mix and hope for the best , but after researching a bit from what I understand the fronts and the centre need to match well to intergrate...
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    Wife factor/speaker placement

    Happy wife :cheer: =Happy life :grin:
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    Wife factor/speaker placement

    Yea she was involved in the buying process but i admit they did seem a lot smaller in the shop! After a nice bottle of wine and playing heaps of her favorite music i can see she is starting to love them came home from work to find the stereo cranking and the kids having a dance off :dance: and a...
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    Wife factor/speaker placement

    I managed to come home with some B&W 683s, any way have set my new pride and joys up center stage of our lounge to get the best sound I could with our furniture arrangment,rather proud of my twin towers dominating our living area couldnt wait for wifey to get home to show them off, to my horror...
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    Sonos or AIrportexpress/dac

    Thanks, good point on being able to leave the computer off! A local shop has let me take a sonos home to play with and must say it is pretty cool.At this stage i wont be taking it back! :)
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    Sonos or AIrportexpress/dac

    Currently building my fiirst semi proper system ,Have a turntable and currently plugging my ipod directly into my amp (which is not ideal) as my only sorces , trying to improve things slowly when i can afford to,starting to look at streaming options, seems to be a heap of solutions but leaning...