I've given up on the Cambridge 740A/C combination. Its incredibly impressive in so many ways but its VERY hi-fi and I just can't live with it day to day. I want a more musical system that just leaves me to enjoy my music again.
I'm starting from scratch and want to build a budget system round a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 9.1s I've just purchased. I still have a NAD C521BEE CD player from a previous system and wondered about combining it with a C315BEE or C325BEE amp. Has anyone heard the Diamonds with NAD amplification?
Alternatively I am considering the Marantz PM6002/CD6002 combo or going down the 2nd hand route. Second hand I have thought of the following possible amps:
Audiolab 8000A or 8000S
Pioneer A400
Kenwood KA3020SE
Arcam Alpha 7 or 8
Marantz PM7002 or PM66SE-KI Sig
A Rotel of some description - possibly even an RA-930BX.
Taking one of these routes, what CD players should I look at? I'm very interested in any impartial advice. I've got carried away with getting more and more expensive hi-fi and the music has somehow got lost along the way.
I intend to keep my Chord Company Crimson interconnect but perhaps upgrade speaker cable to Silverscreen. I'll also be using a Thorens TD150MkII turntable as a source and already have a Graham Slee phono pre-amp. My Diamonds are on Atacama stands.
Musical tastes are classical (my reason for buying the Wharfedales), jazz, 60s and 70s rock, folk, and some musical theatre so my system needs to be an all rounder. I want warmth and musicality but also the sound needs to have sufficient attack for the more dramatic works and songs.
Thanks in advance...
I'm starting from scratch and want to build a budget system round a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 9.1s I've just purchased. I still have a NAD C521BEE CD player from a previous system and wondered about combining it with a C315BEE or C325BEE amp. Has anyone heard the Diamonds with NAD amplification?
Alternatively I am considering the Marantz PM6002/CD6002 combo or going down the 2nd hand route. Second hand I have thought of the following possible amps:
Audiolab 8000A or 8000S
Pioneer A400
Kenwood KA3020SE
Arcam Alpha 7 or 8
Marantz PM7002 or PM66SE-KI Sig
A Rotel of some description - possibly even an RA-930BX.
Taking one of these routes, what CD players should I look at? I'm very interested in any impartial advice. I've got carried away with getting more and more expensive hi-fi and the music has somehow got lost along the way.
I intend to keep my Chord Company Crimson interconnect but perhaps upgrade speaker cable to Silverscreen. I'll also be using a Thorens TD150MkII turntable as a source and already have a Graham Slee phono pre-amp. My Diamonds are on Atacama stands.
Musical tastes are classical (my reason for buying the Wharfedales), jazz, 60s and 70s rock, folk, and some musical theatre so my system needs to be an all rounder. I want warmth and musicality but also the sound needs to have sufficient attack for the more dramatic works and songs.
Thanks in advance...