Hi all, long time lurker. first time poster. Hoping you can help!
I'm in the nice position of having saved some of my hard earned, and been given permission by the wife(!) to enable me to do some upgrading. Its been a long time since I last treated myself to HiFi so its all quite exciting!
No interest whatosever in AV/Surround sound, looking for a pure stereo setup. My current system is an old (12/13 years I guess) Sony TAFB940 amp, linked to a pair of B&W CM1 S1 speakers, using some QED speaker cable (Silver Annievrsary I think it is, and wont change as its under the carpet). My music collection is in ALAC on my Macbook, having ripped all of my CDs a while ago, the mac is connected to the amp via a pretty cheap stoner acoustics UD100 Dac. I've got sky and apple TV hooked up to the amp too.
I've been looking at good quality streaming options, so I can leave my laptop in the study upstairs, and imporve the sound. I think I've boiled it down to the following options, in order of cost:
1. My amp, plus a Cambridge CXN
2. Bluesound powernode 2
3. Cambridge CXA60 and CXN
I want to be able to connect the TV/Apple TV & Sky Box to the my HiFi system to get fuller sound on TV and film. Option 3 comes in at come in at £1200ish and I'd not want to go much higher than this. I plan to go to SSAV (bluesound) and Richer (cambridge) with my speakers/amp to to compare options in a couple of weeks.
So what would you do, and why? Also have i missed any better options? Thanks very much *i-m_so_happy*
2. My amp, plus a Cambridge CXN
I'm in the nice position of having saved some of my hard earned, and been given permission by the wife(!) to enable me to do some upgrading. Its been a long time since I last treated myself to HiFi so its all quite exciting!
No interest whatosever in AV/Surround sound, looking for a pure stereo setup. My current system is an old (12/13 years I guess) Sony TAFB940 amp, linked to a pair of B&W CM1 S1 speakers, using some QED speaker cable (Silver Annievrsary I think it is, and wont change as its under the carpet). My music collection is in ALAC on my Macbook, having ripped all of my CDs a while ago, the mac is connected to the amp via a pretty cheap stoner acoustics UD100 Dac. I've got sky and apple TV hooked up to the amp too.
I've been looking at good quality streaming options, so I can leave my laptop in the study upstairs, and imporve the sound. I think I've boiled it down to the following options, in order of cost:
1. My amp, plus a Cambridge CXN
2. Bluesound powernode 2
3. Cambridge CXA60 and CXN
I want to be able to connect the TV/Apple TV & Sky Box to the my HiFi system to get fuller sound on TV and film. Option 3 comes in at come in at £1200ish and I'd not want to go much higher than this. I plan to go to SSAV (bluesound) and Richer (cambridge) with my speakers/amp to to compare options in a couple of weeks.
So what would you do, and why? Also have i missed any better options? Thanks very much *i-m_so_happy*
2. My amp, plus a Cambridge CXN