Cataford
05-07-2010, 06:05 AM
I apologize in advance if some of the terms I use are not correct (hopefully you will help me learn)
Hi everyone, since I've started school, I've always motivated myself by the fact that when I graduate, I will buy a system that will allow me to listen to music the way I've always dreamed of. I'm a few months away from graduation, and so I've started shopping, and never thought it would be so exciting (and very complicated).
And so I decided to join this community to feed on the experience of all of you! I,ve read many posts, and thought it would be time to ask for a bit of help.
What I currently own : Pioneer turntable PL-71, Marantz amp 1070, NAD cd player and Yamaha speakers (I forget the model will write it when I get home).
It should not be very hard to improve this system, but I've been a student for 21 years, so I didn't have a big budget!
Now, I'm ready to invest in something that will let me enjoy music on another level.
What I'm looking for : Turntable, Amp and Speakers (for cables, I was lucky to have a friend who was an audio salesperson a few years back and I helped him build a deck in exchange for two acoustic zen satori speaker cables and a dozen of MiTerminator interconnects; maybe they're not the right cables for me, but they will be "right enough" for now). For the style of music, I listen to a very wide range from classical and jazz to trip-hop and progressive music (and more...)
The first speakers that I've really liked are the pro ac D-18. I will try the Studio 140 this weekend as my dad found a shop that is letting them go for 2000$.
The only turntables I listened to for now are the Pro-ject classic series, and I couldn't beleive the diffence between a 1000$ turntable with a 2000$ turntable. This really confused me, because I never thought the difference could be so big! The downside of the expencive table is that I could hear more of the flaws in the recordings.
For amps, I really don't know, I listened to an arcam, but there are so many choices it's alomost scary.
So my questions are :
1- Anybody ever compared the proac D-18 and studio 140? And do you think they are a good choice?
2- For turntables, any suggestions? I will listen to some rega turntables next week, but I'm a little confused with all the different companies.
3- How do you guys shop for systems (what I find hard, is that I go to one place, listen to some combinations, and then go to work for a week, and then go somewhere else and try to compare with so much time between the tests). I tried to make a chart for each, but I find the results being difficult to compare.
4- Amps, amps and amps ...
5- Any advice you find important ti give to a newbie that loves music and the purity of sound that will soon purchase his first real system!
Thanks for your help,
Dave
Hi everyone, since I've started school, I've always motivated myself by the fact that when I graduate, I will buy a system that will allow me to listen to music the way I've always dreamed of. I'm a few months away from graduation, and so I've started shopping, and never thought it would be so exciting (and very complicated).
And so I decided to join this community to feed on the experience of all of you! I,ve read many posts, and thought it would be time to ask for a bit of help.
What I currently own : Pioneer turntable PL-71, Marantz amp 1070, NAD cd player and Yamaha speakers (I forget the model will write it when I get home).
It should not be very hard to improve this system, but I've been a student for 21 years, so I didn't have a big budget!
Now, I'm ready to invest in something that will let me enjoy music on another level.
What I'm looking for : Turntable, Amp and Speakers (for cables, I was lucky to have a friend who was an audio salesperson a few years back and I helped him build a deck in exchange for two acoustic zen satori speaker cables and a dozen of MiTerminator interconnects; maybe they're not the right cables for me, but they will be "right enough" for now). For the style of music, I listen to a very wide range from classical and jazz to trip-hop and progressive music (and more...)
The first speakers that I've really liked are the pro ac D-18. I will try the Studio 140 this weekend as my dad found a shop that is letting them go for 2000$.
The only turntables I listened to for now are the Pro-ject classic series, and I couldn't beleive the diffence between a 1000$ turntable with a 2000$ turntable. This really confused me, because I never thought the difference could be so big! The downside of the expencive table is that I could hear more of the flaws in the recordings.
For amps, I really don't know, I listened to an arcam, but there are so many choices it's alomost scary.
So my questions are :
1- Anybody ever compared the proac D-18 and studio 140? And do you think they are a good choice?
2- For turntables, any suggestions? I will listen to some rega turntables next week, but I'm a little confused with all the different companies.
3- How do you guys shop for systems (what I find hard, is that I go to one place, listen to some combinations, and then go to work for a week, and then go somewhere else and try to compare with so much time between the tests). I tried to make a chart for each, but I find the results being difficult to compare.
4- Amps, amps and amps ...
5- Any advice you find important ti give to a newbie that loves music and the purity of sound that will soon purchase his first real system!
Thanks for your help,
Dave