Advice on Music System

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I have a Onkyo 605, PS3 with quad 12Ls front and lites for rear, Im looking to improve my sound for audio, do I get an arcam CD player or similar or go for a squeezebox, i simply want the best sound and how much of an improvement over my PS3 would it be.

Cheers

 

[John Duncan]

The 605 is the bottleneck, music-wise, ahead of the PS3.........

 

[fr0g]

JohnDuncan:The 605 is the bottleneck, music-wise, ahead of the PS3.........

Absolutely agree.
...And here is where planning ahead and getting an AV receiver with preouts is so useful... 🙁

PS3 through a decent £200-£300 amp will sound better than Arcam CD73 through an Onk 605.
Whats your budget?

 

[Anonymous]

I thot you would say that, heres the problem, i've been told I cant run my speakers into another amp as its not a good idea to have them going into 2 seperate amps so my only choice was to upgrade the source but now it seems a waste of time, so I take it the only solution is to upgrade my av amp which I wont be doing, argggghhh.

Cheers

 

[John Duncan]

Well you could get one of these from the States (plus a stereo amp) but one guy here tried it and it didn't work.

Other than that you're a bit SOL - I would save your money until you can do a bigger upgrade.

 

[fr0g]

tolmie:
I thot you would say that, heres the problem, i've been told I cant run my speakers into another amp as its not a good idea to have them going into 2 seperate amps so my only choice was to upgrade the source but now it seems a waste of time, so I take it the only solution is to upgrade my av amp which I wont be doing, argggghhh.

Cheers

You can sidegrade your AV amp (Denon 1908 for example), and then you'll have the preouts, in which to connect a stereo amp...

...You will find some improvement with your original suggestion, it's just that the amp will really not be doing the player justice at all.

 

[Anonymous]

Well thanks for all your help guys, cant see me spending more money on another AV amp tho, just need to put up with it.

Cheers

 

[Anonymous]

From what I read on these forum the PS3 with optical to ADM9 AVI are the ones to do.