Hi everyone,
A year or so ago I had a system in my bedroom consisting of B&W 685s, Marantz PM/CD6003 with Chord interconnects QED speaker cable, and later bought a Rotel RA1520 I saw going cheap to replace the Marantz and bk xls200 sub. That was my first experience of Hifi and it was brilliant! Really loved the soundstage and details I got over just listening to music on my ipod, and the bass from the 685s was just wow
. Unfortuntaely I had to sell almost all that system to fund a car.
But now a family friend has given me a an old amp and I'd like to try and build up a fairly cheap system from used components. The amp is a Sondex Amadeus Gold integrated amp with 50wpc I believe.The system will be in my bedroom again, which is aprox 4mx5m but with bed, a desk and 3 ikea storage units. It is carpeted as I hear this can make a difference. The system will be placed along one of the 4m walls, firing out into the room. I can probably have the speakers max 30cm out from the wall behind.
Music I listen to varies hugely, Nickelback, eminem, kanye west, john mayer, newton faulkner, Red hit chillis, muse, the xx, also some movie soundtracks and dance music too, the lost basically
The shopping list:
Speakers (floor standing or standmount)
CD player
speaker cable
(i still have my chord crimson interconnects and 4 shelf hifi rack )
Budget no more than £2-300 ideally, remembering it is used stuff from ebay etc im looking for.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to try and set the scene as best I could
Any advice, recommendations will be much appreciated
Thanks
Jamie
A year or so ago I had a system in my bedroom consisting of B&W 685s, Marantz PM/CD6003 with Chord interconnects QED speaker cable, and later bought a Rotel RA1520 I saw going cheap to replace the Marantz and bk xls200 sub. That was my first experience of Hifi and it was brilliant! Really loved the soundstage and details I got over just listening to music on my ipod, and the bass from the 685s was just wow
But now a family friend has given me a an old amp and I'd like to try and build up a fairly cheap system from used components. The amp is a Sondex Amadeus Gold integrated amp with 50wpc I believe.The system will be in my bedroom again, which is aprox 4mx5m but with bed, a desk and 3 ikea storage units. It is carpeted as I hear this can make a difference. The system will be placed along one of the 4m walls, firing out into the room. I can probably have the speakers max 30cm out from the wall behind.
Music I listen to varies hugely, Nickelback, eminem, kanye west, john mayer, newton faulkner, Red hit chillis, muse, the xx, also some movie soundtracks and dance music too, the lost basically
The shopping list:
Speakers (floor standing or standmount)
CD player
speaker cable
(i still have my chord crimson interconnects and 4 shelf hifi rack )
Budget no more than £2-300 ideally, remembering it is used stuff from ebay etc im looking for.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to try and set the scene as best I could
Any advice, recommendations will be much appreciated
Thanks
Jamie