House burnt Down, Need to Start again

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25 Years ago I invested alot of time and research into my Hifi System, Had a lovely Arcam Amp, Denon Speakers and at the time, a top End Sony Cd and Mini CD Player. They sounded beautiful and served me and my CD collection well (76 Miles Davis albums alone) I Enjoyed my music every day. Bought more albums, when iTunes came along I hooked up the iPod, iPad and iphone when necessary. They all serverd me well. Then POOF all gone. . . .as they say . . . up in smoke.....Well boo hoo. . .so I start again....luckily I had ripped most of my CD's and I had a back up drive off site. I stopped doing any Hifi research a long time ago.

So Now I need a new system.

Do I need to research or can this fine community help? I have a small £500 budget . . . Point me in the right direction. Where do I start..... all I have is the Backup drive.....

 

[tino]

25 Years ago I invested alot of time and research into my Hifi System, Had a lovely Arcam Amp, Denon Speakers and at the time, a top End Sony Cd and Mini CD Player. They sounded beautiful and served me and my CD collection well (76 Miles Davis albums alone) I Enjoyed my music every day. Bought more albums, when iTunes came along I hooked up the iPod, iPad and iphone when necessary. They all serverd me well. Then POOF all gone. . . .as they say . . . up in smoke.....Well boo hoo. . .so I start again....luckily I had ripped most of my CD's and I had a back up drive off site. I stopped doing any Hifi research a long time ago.

So Now I need a new system.

Do I need to research or can this fine community help? I have a small £500 budget . . . Point me in the right direction. Where do I start..... all I have is the Backup drive.....

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. Hope the insurance sorted you out and recompensed you for your housey stuff and music collection. Given that you will be starting from zero (apart from your iTunes collection) ... you could go for a small streaming mini system and speaker package e.g Yamaha MCR N560D for £299 including speakers, or you could go for a powered speaker with streaming capabilty e.g. Yamaha NX-N500 for slightly over budget at £599. Lots of networked receivers and mini systems from Yamaha eg RN500, Marantz e.g. MCR 511, Denon and Onkyo and speakers from Q Acoustics / Dali can be had within your budget. Another possibility is to get a half decent amp e.g. NAD 3020D, Denon PMA-50 and add a simple Chromecast streaming device to it. Both these amps will also be capabale of streaming from your phone over Bluetooth. You could always go second hand in which case your options broaden considerably.

 

[PatrickbMcCabe]

Thanks for taking that time to reply Tino!cSadly no insurance which is why the budget is so low!

 

[PatrickbMcCabe]

This item has a RJ45 network input. My question is, does the mini system have the ability to Scroll through a backup drive attached to it? can one search the drive for songs etc? can it make playlists . . . .is can it Manage the music that is on the remote drive?

 

[NSA_watch_my_toilet]

"Thanks for taking that time to reply Tino!cSadly no insurance which is why the budget is so low!"

I'm living in a land where it's absolute to have an insurance, sometimes two of them, to have a house or even rent a flat. When not we have immediately gov. papers coming in or the renting good are refused to you. So when I read you, I felt really really uneasy because I could simply not imagine your situation. For my curiosity, what land are you from ?

 

[PatrickbMcCabe]

I live in Northern Ireland. It was MY Mistake that burned the house. I was Making chips, got distracted and left the house for a few vital minutes. The Insurance woulkd not cover because i left the chip pan unattended.

 

[richardw42]

Check out something like the Marantz 603 (if still available) that plus speakers will cost less than 500.

its been superseded but I'd expect there to be some about.

 

[tino]

This item has a RJ45 network input. My question is, does the mini system have the ability to Scroll through a backup drive attached to it? can one search the drive for songs etc? can it make playlists . . . .is can it Manage the music that is on the remote drive?

The front mounted USB port allows USB sticks and possibly USB disk drives although I cannot be sure. If you have a PC/laptop with Windows media player, or a phone with DLNA support, or you buy a network attached storage (like a Western Digital My Cloud for £99) you can play from any of those. I assume you have a wireless network in your home or did that go up in smoke too?