Hi
My wife and i are fed up with playing pass the headphones with a pair of Grado GS1000 a Musical fidelity v3 Headphone Amp and Arcam alpha with blackbox3 Dac.we listen to various music from clasical,jazz to pop, My wife tends to listen at quiter volumes so it needs to be just as detailed at the lower end.we like detail pace wide imaging and dynamics. we want a system that will compel us to revisit all our discs and wow at the new level of detai and move us to tears not just when we decided the budget..we have a largeish listening room and a budget of between £10-17k our listening habits are 90% cd 10% record.
The easy bit for us is propably the deck we heard the Roksan Radius 5.2 with an Ortofon mc cart. we are not sure which Phono stage would be a good match but i am guessing the deck end is going to blow about 2k of the budget. The question is where to invest the rest.?
We have auditioned the Cyrus cd xt se+ with DAC X a pair of mono x and Power supplies at the Bristol show and were very impressed,Not over confident about the matching Vienna speakers though, since this we have also heard a Naim cdx2 with XPS NAC 202 Pre with NAP 250 with various floor standers this system sounded we think slightly more musical which was good too.
My questions are what would be a great speaker match for the cyrus. also have we pretty much squeezed out all we are going to get out of this combo and with the available budget would you recomend a different set up.
The Naim system was reallly good with the extra power supply but would we get a better sytem sound with a different Amp match.
Buying a system with a given budget would we be bettter of with a system with external power supplies or spending that combined amount on a better cd player/dac
Please any ideas of combinations cd/amp/speaker side would be really welcome.
Many Thanks
Nigel
My wife and i are fed up with playing pass the headphones with a pair of Grado GS1000 a Musical fidelity v3 Headphone Amp and Arcam alpha with blackbox3 Dac.we listen to various music from clasical,jazz to pop, My wife tends to listen at quiter volumes so it needs to be just as detailed at the lower end.we like detail pace wide imaging and dynamics. we want a system that will compel us to revisit all our discs and wow at the new level of detai and move us to tears not just when we decided the budget..we have a largeish listening room and a budget of between £10-17k our listening habits are 90% cd 10% record.
The easy bit for us is propably the deck we heard the Roksan Radius 5.2 with an Ortofon mc cart. we are not sure which Phono stage would be a good match but i am guessing the deck end is going to blow about 2k of the budget. The question is where to invest the rest.?
We have auditioned the Cyrus cd xt se+ with DAC X a pair of mono x and Power supplies at the Bristol show and were very impressed,Not over confident about the matching Vienna speakers though, since this we have also heard a Naim cdx2 with XPS NAC 202 Pre with NAP 250 with various floor standers this system sounded we think slightly more musical which was good too.
My questions are what would be a great speaker match for the cyrus. also have we pretty much squeezed out all we are going to get out of this combo and with the available budget would you recomend a different set up.
The Naim system was reallly good with the extra power supply but would we get a better sytem sound with a different Amp match.
Buying a system with a given budget would we be bettter of with a system with external power supplies or spending that combined amount on a better cd player/dac
Please any ideas of combinations cd/amp/speaker side would be really welcome.
Many Thanks
Nigel
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