Best system for £1000

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Hi,

I have bose docking station and a few ipods plus a hard drive full of downloaded or music copied from my cds. I now want to find a player plus four speakers (to connect to wiring in a room) and ideally wanted to spend around £1000. I am prepared to spend up to £1500 is there is a very tangible increase in quality of sound by doing so.

I have listened to a friends basic ipod docking station through an arcam ampliflier and bose cube speakers and found the sound quite good. It was certainly better than my bose ipod player but I felt that for a grand or a grand and a half there was someting better. I really do not know where to start looking.

I was told to spend 50/50 on player/amplifier units and speakers. I have 2.5mm solid copper cable running from a central point on the wall to four speak positions and also wondered if that cable will affect sound quality.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[pwiles1968]

You could take a look at a Maranz MCR603 might tick a lot of boxes with respect to streaming and iPod connectivity, if you have iOS devices the airplay is a bonus. Well worth a Listen.

Are you looking at 4 speakers in the same room?

 

[pwiles1968]

Sorry double posted :wall:

 

[Anonymous]

Hi yes, we are looking at four speakers, however we are not planning on streaming as we have poor broadband connectivity. We are happy to use a hard drive with music already downloaded and simply connect it to the device if that is possible. What I am really saying is that I want to pay for quality more than latest up to date features if that makes sense. If we can somehow dock the iphone and connect a hard drive through USB connection that is fine. If the streaming facility comes at no extra cost then that is fine with us.