Hi guys
As the tittle suggest I have a budget of around £1500 and looking to buy a good amp and pair of speakers to go with it.
Here's a little story how I actually got into the whole fine-sound affair:
I am a musician myself, I play the Indian percussion instrument called tabla. During my teenage time, oneday I went into Birmingham richer sound store inquest of finding a hifi system that would sound better than what all my friends and cousins had at time in the likes of aiwa, kenwood, technics, etc. Quite naturally I saw brands that I never heard of before, I had not much to spend either but luckily for me they had a sale on. I am talking about early 90s so no Internet to do any research before buying, so what do I do? I looked at this beautiful looking amp it was called musical fidelity e10 integrated amp it looked nice and simple and also the name caught my imagination and I decided to buy it, don't remember how much it was, I also bought a cheap Marantz cd player. In terms of speakers I knew what I was looking for. I was looking to buy Bose but richer sound didn't sell them so the salesman suggested BW dm601 and again I was impressed by looks and their yellow kebler.
So this was my first pure hifi set up and I have been really pleased with the sound.
Recently on my trip to India i bought a what hifi magazine to read on the plane, here I came across the much talked Marantz pair pm6004 and cd6004 and also learned about DAC. Since I had my old system for almost 20 years I thought this may be the good time to upgrade my system, after doing bit of research I bought the Marantz pair, I felt rather sad as I unconnected my old MF anyways after setting up the system I played few tracks. And felt a bit disappointed I thought may be it needs burning in time so played it for few hours, nothing changed only a sleepless night. I kept thinking maybe it's the speakers because they are old they are not performing well with the new system so next day I decided to hook up my MF back on to see the difference and guess what??? With the new Marantz cd player my old MF sounded like it had never sound before ,I thlnk the built-in DAC made the difference. I straight away put the pm6004 back in its box.
In my current financial situation I could never have imagined to setup such a budget as I have, but having spoken to a couple dealers they said, to upgrade from my existing setup I would have to spend such money to feel any difference.
As you can tell I am a big fan of MF products and contemplating m3i but the other names such as naim, rotel, creek, roksan, audiolab do also come to mind. Speaker wise I think I will have to wait till I decide on the amp.
I listen to Indian, jazz, pop, indowest fusion, bit of rock, strings and vocal based music, nothing rhymed is one of my favourite English song of all time.
Preferences : tight and controlled bass, high note should be as clear as low note, detailed sound, every instrument should get its respective space and most importantly it should sound sweet and musical.
Thank you for reading my story.
Awaiting recommendations
Seasons greetings
As the tittle suggest I have a budget of around £1500 and looking to buy a good amp and pair of speakers to go with it.
Here's a little story how I actually got into the whole fine-sound affair:
I am a musician myself, I play the Indian percussion instrument called tabla. During my teenage time, oneday I went into Birmingham richer sound store inquest of finding a hifi system that would sound better than what all my friends and cousins had at time in the likes of aiwa, kenwood, technics, etc. Quite naturally I saw brands that I never heard of before, I had not much to spend either but luckily for me they had a sale on. I am talking about early 90s so no Internet to do any research before buying, so what do I do? I looked at this beautiful looking amp it was called musical fidelity e10 integrated amp it looked nice and simple and also the name caught my imagination and I decided to buy it, don't remember how much it was, I also bought a cheap Marantz cd player. In terms of speakers I knew what I was looking for. I was looking to buy Bose but richer sound didn't sell them so the salesman suggested BW dm601 and again I was impressed by looks and their yellow kebler.
So this was my first pure hifi set up and I have been really pleased with the sound.
Recently on my trip to India i bought a what hifi magazine to read on the plane, here I came across the much talked Marantz pair pm6004 and cd6004 and also learned about DAC. Since I had my old system for almost 20 years I thought this may be the good time to upgrade my system, after doing bit of research I bought the Marantz pair, I felt rather sad as I unconnected my old MF anyways after setting up the system I played few tracks. And felt a bit disappointed I thought may be it needs burning in time so played it for few hours, nothing changed only a sleepless night. I kept thinking maybe it's the speakers because they are old they are not performing well with the new system so next day I decided to hook up my MF back on to see the difference and guess what??? With the new Marantz cd player my old MF sounded like it had never sound before ,I thlnk the built-in DAC made the difference. I straight away put the pm6004 back in its box.
In my current financial situation I could never have imagined to setup such a budget as I have, but having spoken to a couple dealers they said, to upgrade from my existing setup I would have to spend such money to feel any difference.
As you can tell I am a big fan of MF products and contemplating m3i but the other names such as naim, rotel, creek, roksan, audiolab do also come to mind. Speaker wise I think I will have to wait till I decide on the amp.
I listen to Indian, jazz, pop, indowest fusion, bit of rock, strings and vocal based music, nothing rhymed is one of my favourite English song of all time.
Preferences : tight and controlled bass, high note should be as clear as low note, detailed sound, every instrument should get its respective space and most importantly it should sound sweet and musical.
Thank you for reading my story.
Awaiting recommendations
Seasons greetings
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