Welcome newcomers!

Bry,

Don’t want to say too much since this is the welcome thread but with criteria like that you really need to look at ‘active’ speakers. Far better value for money, less problems with system matching, more advanced technology. More accurate.

http://www.dv247.com/icat/Active+Monitors/2940/

Just as an example system bought from new:

Mackie HR824 (price is for a single monitor, so double that = £668) http://www.dv247.com/invt/7480/

Promethious pre-amp (~£150) http://www.promitheusaudio.com/tvc.htm

Rega Apollo CD player (~£400) http://www.rega.co.uk/index2.htm

 

Knock knock...let me in

Hi everyone
I am running a Thai restaurant/pub in north Norfolk and love music (mainly rock). My gears are changing quite often but currently using Classe cdp-10, Krell 300i and Ruark Talisman2. If you are also post in the tent you may know me anyway. Hope i have a warm wellcome here too!

 

Welcome ob1971.

As far as I know we haven't had a bake-off in a Thai restaurant before. Hint hint.

 

Thx Dev, watch this space for bake off ....your speakers look interesting what are they?

 

Tannoy D700s in the main system, Tannoy SRM10B in the second system.

 

nalogue is my poison - you didn't guess?

i'm running a Garrard 401 with a Decca and a Townsend trough or an oldish LP12 / Ittok / MC2000 into a Pink Triangle Pip II / Trilogy 100watt. Speakers - Celestion 3000 ribbons (lovely but crap dispersion) or a pair of 63s with 6000 subs when I can use the space. They just vanish.

This month I went loopy and got the LP12 fully Funked with a Vector Link.
I couldn't get it demmed anad had to take it on blind faith and a bit of commonsense that it woudl all stack up. Art's Review helped though

Boy am I'm pleased I did. All the timing is still there only everything is so much bigger and clearer and deeper. No, that's not it. It just plays music so naturally now. It deserves to succeed. Will it?

 

hi fellas.

daniel gleebits here. married with 2 boys. love the great outdoors and music.
i have an aiwa all in one system and love the sound it makes. but maybe will be up-grading in the future so will need you help sometime.

 

Hi Dan, welcome to the forum.

Nice name

 

Hi all,

Names Stuart, live in the idyllic hilly north and besides my Hifi and AV I enjoy motorbikes, computers and the odd bit of real ale :beer:

Currently very settled with my main system toying with adding a turntable and tuner over the next year otherwise very content I just feel a bit guilty about my Naim's carbon foot print :JPS:

MY MAIN KIT:

NAIM CDX2
NAIM NAC282 + HiCAP
NAIM NAP250
Totem One Signatures on Partington stands
NAC5 speaker cable and all interconnects by Naim

For the quieter times of night

NAIM Headline + NAPSC with Sennheiser HD600

AV:

Pioneer DV-868AVi
Pioneer VSX-AX5i
Pioneer PD-S801 (cd player)
Totem Model One Signatures + Totem Dreamcatcher Front and Rears.
Tanny Sub

Mixture of Nordost blue heaven speaker cables (main pair) and Solar wind (center) and QED cables on rear.
Interconnects are a mix of Chord, Nordost and QED.

Regards,

Stuart

 

Nice to see another Lancastrian. Greetings from sunny Heywood

 

Not Monkey Town, surely?!!

 

Indeed but only just! We have Heywood's most famous citizen as a neighbour!



Sadly the Heywood monkey seems to have died a death. I've not seen one mentioned for years

 

It's some years since I lived in the area, to be honest. Used to be a frequent visitor-particularly to Chamber House in my teens.

Nice to see Julie there, doesn't look a day over 70, bless.

Am I right in seeing the a Summit reference then?

 

I've been lurking for a while, alerted from another forum, and thought I should register. My main system is TAG McLaren CD player, TAG McLaren AV32R processor, into ATC SCM50A stereo pair, Parasound power amp into M&K surround speakers for home cinema including sub, DVD is Sony, FM tuner Quad FM, Sky + box and Pioneer 52in Plasma. Except for the Sky+, around five years old or more.

Thoughts are turning to an AV server that can deliver to multiple points in the house for decent quality "in room" listening plus high quality delivery to the main system.

 

Well, I've posted a little already and completely omitted to post here!

I am an ex-pat Yorkshireman living near Heathrow, married with all kids grown up and gone, so I can concentrate on hifi now.
I have an audionet ART V2 cdp into Cyrus Pre-X (with psx) into Cyrus monoX's powering Dynaudio Focus 220's. I/c's are Townshend DCT300 and Isolda speaker cable.
I also have (for av duties) a Denon 1730 dvd into a Yamaha processor and a Cyrus power (with psx) in mono for centre (Dyn Focus 200c) and another power (with psx) in stereo for rear to Dyn Audience 42W's.

 

I 'm a PE teacher living in West-London who has quite nearly got the sort of system that can respond to all my my musical needs. I have an AVid Diva turntable with a SME 309 arm, Unison Research S6 valve amplifier, Musical Fidelity Nu-vista cd player, Marantz DR 6000 recorder, Project Tube Box phono stage, Musical Fidelity X-tone, and lastly Castle Howard speakers. Interconnects are LAT international IC 200 marks2. musical I listen to jazz, latin, reggae, cafe del mar etc.

 

welcome analog, be very scared, be very welcome, nando.

 

Found the forum by pure chance and it is the first Hi-Fi forum that I've liked the look of enough to register. :respect:

Kit,
MF E600 via X-DAC
Denon TU260
MF E200 Pre
MF E300 Power x2
Proac Tablette 50s on Target R stands
VDH Cables

Music,
All sorts but much of it revolves around links to Neil Finn (some very tenuous). :shame:

 

Welcome to ZG Sam.

 

Thanks Dev,
I'm just sitting and praying that membership doesn't bring on another bout of upgrade-itis!
I'm reading plenty of stuff about how boring my MF/Proac stuff is!:cry: :boughtMF: Still, it's sounding good to me, so maybe it's me that's boring?