Getting Started with KEF

[raychristenpaul]

M getting a NAD cd player today....the C515BEE.....let's find out how it perform against my old Pioneer....by the way, I was informed by my dad that it is about 9 years old. (not 3-4) I mean wow, 9 years ago n they have come up with 24 bit DAC....probably not a fair duel....given the age.....but why not. Are there any higher than 24 bit DAC?

How do you guys make the comparison, by listening to the same song or with stacks of cds with different types of music?

I recalled when I first auditioned my iQ3, the guy in shop was telling me that if u r listening to this song, you go for this speaker, that song for that speaker and etc, etc..then I began to wonder. iQ3 - is it a all rounder speakers or just for certain music only?

[bobsticks]

M getting a NAD cd player today....the C515BEE.....let's find out how it perform against my old Pioneer....by the way, I was informed by my dad that it is about 9 years old. (not 3-4) I mean wow, 9 years ago n they have come up with 24 bit DAC....probably not a fair duel....given the age.....but why not. Are there any higher than 24 bit DAC?

How do you guys make the comparison, by listening to the same song or with stacks of cds with different types of music?

I recalled when I first auditioned my iQ3, the guy in shop was telling me that if u r listening to this song, you go for this speaker, that song for that speaker and etc, etc..then I began to wonder. iQ3 - is it a all rounder speakers or just for certain music only?

Ayo,

Congrats on the NAD, new toys are fun aren't they? The advances in players have centered around oversampling and rate...which is variable and on which one could wrire chapters. At the end of the day just go with what sounds good to you.

At this point I would almost buy any kind of stand. Think outside the envelope. Maybe some plantstands or something. Granted you may pick up some resonations from them at high volumes but you liv ein a flat so I assume you're not doing concert level listening anyway. They won't be the ultimate answer but definitely better than having those KEFs pressed up against the glass. Give 'em some room and you'll come closer to replicating the sound you heard at your friend's house.

Some speakers excell at certain things but I think the KEFs are a good all-around speak. I've had many chances to replace mine with more "celebrated audiophile gear" but why? They do a good job holding down the fort in my computer system.

I think everyone would recommend using a few different discs with which you are familiar to test out speakers. I like to take a few different genres...jazz,classical,industrial...that are recorded really well. Usually I'll slip in a disc or two that isn't recorded very well also, because I want to know how revealing a speaker is of known faults. I keep the KEFs around because they are not hyper-revealing---that may sound like a criticism but it's not--and the speakers I use in my main set-up are. Speakers are no good if you can't listen to the type of music you like.

Peace