Hi Everyone,
Just looking for some help in choosing and setting up a budget hi-fi system!!
Some background - as most casual music listeners I have been listening to standard mp3 files on my ipod classic through an Altec dock for the last few years and am finnaly fed up with listening to low quality music. I remember my teenage days of listeing to vinyl and CDs through a wharfedale seperates sytem with mission speakers and want to get back to having some bass, depth and qwuality to my listening experience!
So I have started looking at option to replace my dock and have found that there is a whole new worl in hifi with wireless streaming, bluetooth, multiroom, sonos etc etc. After much thought and going back to the real reason for a new hifi( better music quality) i have decided to go for a traditional seperate amp and speaker system rather than the sonos thing. I mainly listen to music in one room anyway and if i do want to take music elswhere i can use my existing ipod dock.
So I am looking for a budget system (500-600 New Zealand Dollars) which is 250-300 uk pounds. I would like an integrated stereo amp, two bookshelf speakers and a Ipod dock so i can listen to lossless (FLAC) files from my 120gb ipod. I think this still gives me the flexability of the ipod and easy storage of my music but hopefully some better quality sound.
I have been looking at a basic set-up of Cambridge Audio AM1 amp, Cambridge Audio SX60 speakers and a pure i-20 dock to get the better sound from my ipod. I may also want to add a record player to this set-up ata future date.
Any thoughts, suggestions on this plan????
Just looking for some help in choosing and setting up a budget hi-fi system!!
Some background - as most casual music listeners I have been listening to standard mp3 files on my ipod classic through an Altec dock for the last few years and am finnaly fed up with listening to low quality music. I remember my teenage days of listeing to vinyl and CDs through a wharfedale seperates sytem with mission speakers and want to get back to having some bass, depth and qwuality to my listening experience!
So I have started looking at option to replace my dock and have found that there is a whole new worl in hifi with wireless streaming, bluetooth, multiroom, sonos etc etc. After much thought and going back to the real reason for a new hifi( better music quality) i have decided to go for a traditional seperate amp and speaker system rather than the sonos thing. I mainly listen to music in one room anyway and if i do want to take music elswhere i can use my existing ipod dock.
So I am looking for a budget system (500-600 New Zealand Dollars) which is 250-300 uk pounds. I would like an integrated stereo amp, two bookshelf speakers and a Ipod dock so i can listen to lossless (FLAC) files from my 120gb ipod. I think this still gives me the flexability of the ipod and easy storage of my music but hopefully some better quality sound.
I have been looking at a basic set-up of Cambridge Audio AM1 amp, Cambridge Audio SX60 speakers and a pure i-20 dock to get the better sound from my ipod. I may also want to add a record player to this set-up ata future date.
Any thoughts, suggestions on this plan????