I'm looking to put together a modest turntable system to play my old vinyl collection.
Max budget around £800 all in.
It's over 30 years since I last did this so I'm a wee bit out of touch with current gear.
I do have an old
Quad 405-2 up in the loft somewhere which I could exploit if required.
Looking for a turntable, amp and stereo speaker combination. Bluetooth on the amp\pre-amp would be nice, but not essential.
Any recommendations from the HiFi bods on here?
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Schiit Mani turntable Pre Amp £120
Pair of lightly used Tannoy Reveal speakers (passive) £50 used on eBay.
NVA passive Pre amp (you’ll have to stalk eBay for a month or two, but one will turn up) £150
NVA A20, or A40 power amp...again used on eBay £150ish.
I can donate some speaker stands, and donate an integrate amp to keep you going until the NVA stuff turn up on eBay.
NVA speaker cable £100.
That should do it
I’ve had all sorts of hifi, the NVA kit can be had cheap on eBay used, and the quality is awesome. Sounds epic. Fantastic used buy.
Good luck
Marlin
used), and a Topping D30 DAC (£100) with output into the NVA system. Sounds fantastic.
I use Apple TV3 because it has digital audio out, so I can stream audio. Newer versions don’t have digital audio out, so setting up the streaming is much more difficult. I don’t have it connected to a TV, just setup for stereo audio.
The Topping D30 is an incredible DAC for very little money. A real giant slayer
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254050161574
Cheaper than buying the separate pre and power amp too!
studio monitors, but make for stunning mid size speakers, particularly for rooms of 15ft square or less.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183805153496
https://youtu.be/R4PvNVBUQGY
This guy makes great impartial videos. You should spend an hour or so looking through his recommendations.
Spend your budget on the turntable, speakers and pre, maybe?
For streaming, if you are even a little bit IT literate, you can setup a Raspberry Pi with a good quality DAC "hat" and use Rune or Volumio, or piCorePlayer, and then control it from your phone or laptop. 50 - 60 quid max.
Apple TV 3: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F192913527975
Connector (Toslink) cable digital audio out: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F191862974558
NVA Speaker cable (you have to have this, you need very low capacitance speaker cable with NVA amps): https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F223226244620
Get the best speakers you can afford
Go used/vintage for TT I reckon, there was economy of scale back then. Like speakers you generally get what you pay for in this department