Hi guys and gals. I'm on the lookout for a small hi-fi system for home. Not too small, but nothing huge either. I'm thinking along the lines of the Onkyo CS-265 but maybe should consider something where I can connect via bluetooth as well. Budget would be around £200/£250. (Denon would be a bit out of my budget but I hear good things.)
Argos for example would suggest several options (any of them would potentially work)
I guess I'm trying to get the best sound quality for this budget but am aware that this budget will only give me only so much quality, which is ok.
On a side note, I'm also going to buy a regular turntable and may or may not try to hook it all up together... (or at least maybe plug it into the speakers)
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Sit it back and enjoy the music.
Ps. Vinyl is a very expensive way to listen to music. The TT is costly, the phono stage ditto and the disks are outrageously priced. Hence my suggestion to rip upon music to FLAC or similar files.
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The last few days I keep seeing pop-up adverts for the Brennan B2. It seems to be essentially a stand-alone hard drive and music player which can hold the equivalent of 5,000 CDs in FLAC format (depending on the size of the hard drive).
Sounds quite good, but I guess you can do the equivalent on a PC or laptop with the appropriate software. Anyone tried one?
Data on NAS with RAID 5, plus a separate unit in a separate location. Then access NAS from players elsewhere on the LAN (or www if you want).
I’ve found that the connection side of that sort of set-up works reasonably well, but I’m still looking for a decent piece of player software that works on Win/OSX/iOS.
Assuming that the KRKs are active speakers, such a plan would work. But you have little control of the output volume. I gather each speaker has a volume control but in the arrangement you suggest, you have to adjust both equally to maintain a reasonable stereo image. A passive pre-amp would work but the word on the street is that passives suck tone. An active pre-amp between the CD player and the KRKs seems the simplest solution. I never heard a pair of KRKs in action but I would expect the sound to be poorer than a CD player, amp plus speakers.
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