The great £500 system thread

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£20 from argos. Then £480 paying various bills...

Or is this not meant to be realistic?
 
Naim Nait 3 £250 all over the place
Rega Kytes £75 what I got for my perfect ones on ebay
Marantz CD63II KI £150 on Hifi for sale
£25 on some NACA5 and a freebie interconnect, would sound great, and has room for upgrades, a sub maybe or a different DAC

Come on Dev, ban me please, save me from upgraditis!!!
 
i know ive missed the prizes but would just like to show what i could do on a tight budget.

AMP- denon 350se (the one with no tone controls) £80 s/h

SOURCE 1 - wired squeezebox 1 £60 s/h (i paid £60 for one)

SOURCE 2 - ROTEL RCD-855 cd player s/h £50 here

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3272&item=7526993449&rd=1

SPEAKERS - Wharfedale Diamond 8.3 Floorstanding Speakers £115 here

http://www.hifibitz.co.uk/product.asp?id=1

CABLES - 2 £10 stereo cables and £10 worth of some biwire cable.

TOTAL - £335 with change you could buy an other source or two and some cds.
 
Or a DAC for your Squeezebox (SB1) which will improve it no end, my suggestions would be either a NOS DAC (£120ish) or a Meridian 203 (old but surprisingly good - £90-£120 s/h)

Mr Perceptive
 
I'll add the MF X-ACT DAC to that list - I got mine for about £90 (inc. P&P) off eBay and it's made a considerable difference when partnered with my NAD C521BEE CD player. I was pleasently surprised that an 8 or 9 year old DAC could be much an improvement over the DAC in the CD player. There is definately more detail revealed from CDs.
 
eventually me and the other mods will get off our lazy butts and award the prizes..

We got it down to 2 people, but the points were equal and we couldnt split it.

We then forgot about it! oops

Chris
 
What is the prize? It's not really being black listed I hope :O

I might try my hand if the prize is good!
 
nsherin said:
I'll add the MF X-ACT DAC to that list - I got mine for about £90 (inc. P&P) off eBay and it's made a considerable difference when partnered with my NAD C521BEE CD player. I was pleasently surprised that an 8 or 9 year old DAC could be much an improvement over the DAC in the CD player. There is definately more detail revealed from CDs.
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thats cool - I've just bought the same cd player for 110 notes... ;)

tho, not sure if the nad amp matches my speaker pefectly tho...
 
2 people got exactly the same score, and we couldnt think of a way to seperate it, so have decided to say there are 2 winners!

So, congratulations to TonyL and AndrewS for both putting together the best systems for the money (in our humble opinion)

We have a selection of fun prizes, which TonyL and AndrewS can pick from, if they so desire!

1) silver anniversary cable
2) a handheld colour scanner
3) FFRC
4) carbon fibre equipment supports
5) RDC cones


Chris
 

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