Hi all
Following some albeit very brief demos yesterday, I'm beginning to get some informed ideas of the kit I want but given the nature of my room I'm questioning wether its going to be worth spending so much money?
Briefly, we have an open plan L shaped living room about 4m wide and 7m one way and 11m the other from the outside corner. The kit is planned to go against the wall pointing down the 7m room. So in effect its in a 7m x 4m room with another room the same size running at a right angle to where the speakers will be. The settee and main listening position will be about 3m in front of the speakers. I want to be able to have a 'reference' position for me and also fill downstairs with a 'nice' sound as background music at other times. Hope that makes sense. We have laminate floors throughout and loads of glass, inc patio doors next to listening position and velux window over. Very minimalist as well, so not a lot of soft furniture.
Main source is going to be lossless files through a wired sonos system. Really liked the MA rx6s we listened to you yesterday, as much for the build quality as sound TBH - we have to consider that we look after an autistic child for a few hours a week, who WILL stick his fingers into the tweeters, etc and remove stand mounts from their stands, so the MAs did appear able to withstand a bit of over enthusiastic fiddling with and seemed fairly sturdy on their bases. Cyrus 8xpd ticks all the boxes as far as spec goes - want the digital inputs for other kit, not sure if its all going to sound a bit harsh - 'nearly' everything sounds great to me in the shop, not sure how to get the most out of a demo really. I am going to demo an Arcam a28 or a38 with an rdac with MAs as I did like Arcam previously.
Big question for me is given the above limitations, am I really going to benefit from such expensive kit, have toyed with a Sonos ZP120 and a pair of £150 tannoys instead.
Tried explaining this in shop but think its probably a bit too much for a salesman to take in. Example is orginal idea was to have some standmount speakers (neat 3s or EB1s) but placed on a fairly solid oak sideboard - I know this isnt the idea but speakers balanced on stands would be a BAD idea in my house, the salesman might as well have showed me the door at that point!
If anyone has similar experiences, I'd be grateful for any advice you can give me.
regards, Bill
Following some albeit very brief demos yesterday, I'm beginning to get some informed ideas of the kit I want but given the nature of my room I'm questioning wether its going to be worth spending so much money?
Briefly, we have an open plan L shaped living room about 4m wide and 7m one way and 11m the other from the outside corner. The kit is planned to go against the wall pointing down the 7m room. So in effect its in a 7m x 4m room with another room the same size running at a right angle to where the speakers will be. The settee and main listening position will be about 3m in front of the speakers. I want to be able to have a 'reference' position for me and also fill downstairs with a 'nice' sound as background music at other times. Hope that makes sense. We have laminate floors throughout and loads of glass, inc patio doors next to listening position and velux window over. Very minimalist as well, so not a lot of soft furniture.
Main source is going to be lossless files through a wired sonos system. Really liked the MA rx6s we listened to you yesterday, as much for the build quality as sound TBH - we have to consider that we look after an autistic child for a few hours a week, who WILL stick his fingers into the tweeters, etc and remove stand mounts from their stands, so the MAs did appear able to withstand a bit of over enthusiastic fiddling with and seemed fairly sturdy on their bases. Cyrus 8xpd ticks all the boxes as far as spec goes - want the digital inputs for other kit, not sure if its all going to sound a bit harsh - 'nearly' everything sounds great to me in the shop, not sure how to get the most out of a demo really. I am going to demo an Arcam a28 or a38 with an rdac with MAs as I did like Arcam previously.
Big question for me is given the above limitations, am I really going to benefit from such expensive kit, have toyed with a Sonos ZP120 and a pair of £150 tannoys instead.
Tried explaining this in shop but think its probably a bit too much for a salesman to take in. Example is orginal idea was to have some standmount speakers (neat 3s or EB1s) but placed on a fairly solid oak sideboard - I know this isnt the idea but speakers balanced on stands would be a BAD idea in my house, the salesman might as well have showed me the door at that point!
If anyone has similar experiences, I'd be grateful for any advice you can give me.
regards, Bill
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