Reply With QuoteLP12, NAIM, B&W 802 ....
Just wondering if anyone else on here is also into collecting Hi Fi gear and into highend audio.
This another passion of mine and another way to blow my salary lol. I mainly listen to vinyl, but I also discover new music via Tidal.
My main setup is Teac 500 reference series seperates + a Sony PS-X65 turntable + Cambridge Audio Cxn V2 streamer and a set of classic Celestion speakers.
I also have a portable setup which I recently got which consists of a ibasso Dx220 dap + Focal elegia headphones which sound friggin awesome!
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LP12, NAIM, B&W 802 ....
That's a next level setup, very nice! I would love a tube amp some day maybe from mcintoshOriginally Posted by redkite
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my modest set up is a Linn Axis tt with Basik plus arm, Linn lk 85 power amp, Pioneer pd-s505 precision tuned cd player, Denon pma-355 bridged as a pre amp, plus akg 240s phones and Linn Ninka speakers.
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marchingontogether!
Rare old mixture!
Eclipse TD512 speakers, Rogers LS/35A,
KEF LS50, Marantz PM17ki Signature amp, Eclipse 502 amp, Teac A501 amp,
Rega P2 turntable, Musical Fidelity CD,
Netgear NAS drive. Arcam DAC.
Sonos for streaming.
I alternate speakers but mainly use KEF LS50 with the Teac A501.
The Eclipse speakers are frighteningly accurate...I was invited to Abbey Rd studios to audition them.
https://www.eclipse-td.com/uk/index.html
love my music more than TV 😅
like most ive had lots of different gear over the years, now settled on naim 5i-2 with neat motive 2 speakers running through an arcam ir dac (all my music is stored on a netbook in Flac format ) , im pretty happy with the sound from this setup and the only thing i might change (if a used pair come up) is to try a pair of duevel planet omnidirectional speakers .
Skyman to thread.
Dali Royal Tower speakers
Roksan K2 amp
Roksan K3 dac
Synolgy 213 nas with music on FLAC
SONOS to stream it all
Portable is
Fiio X5 gen 3
1964 CIEM'S with Null audio balanced cryo copper cable
Would love to upgrade my amp to Roksan M2 and move up the dali speaker range but I'd be looking at thousands now for a mark improvement in sound.
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Marantz CD10
Rega DAC
Michi RHC-10/RHB-10 passive pre/power
Kef Reference 105/3
Though these days we more often use a £20 Amazon Echo Input as a source to stream from Spotify rather than the £1800 CD/DAC combo...
It is nice though that when Alexa tells me the weather it's through amps, speakers and cables that cost me about £7k back in the mid 90's rather than through a tiny bluetooth speaker :-)
DCS Puccini transport and clock
Node 2i streamer
NAD M25 amp (so it can do AV as well)
Neat MFS Ultimatum speakers
Love my hifi, some nice kit on those lists
I have a a fair bit. Mainly vinyl and usually 3 TTs up and running.
Kenwood L-07D, Onkyo PX-100M, Garrard 301, Thorens TD124, Alphason Sonata.
Arms vary but include Alphason HR100, Audiocraft AC-3300, AC-300, Fidelity Research FR64x
Lots of various MCs. Step up is a Pioneer MZ-1
Amps are Leben RS-28x Pre, Quad QMP mono blocs, ARC LS7 Beard P101, some Rogue Audio gear too.
Speakers are MagnePlanar 1.7 and Mangeplanar MG12
Sony Professional Walkman for tapes.
CD and Tuner are Teac.
Nobody still using cassettes? My TEAC twin tapedeck still gets use for the irreplaceable mix-tapes and other stuff recorded years ago.
Just starting out and nothing high end but currently setting up a home cinema/music room. Bought a Denon X3500H, a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze 2 speakers and a nice new 65" TV. Next on the list is a sub, a centre speaker and an Xbox One to replace the kids old 360.
I used to be into my hiding big time and at peak had the best part of 20k tied up in naim, b&w and audio synthesis. Sold most of it when my first business foray went south.
I’m now starting to build it back up again with the only bits of kit I kept from those days. Current system is.
Cambridge audio streamer
Audio synthesis dax decade pre/day
Audio synthesis desire decade amp
IPL S5TL speakers
Chord poly/mojo and Hugo as alternate sources
Also have
Thrones TD105 turntable
Various technics integrated amps as ‘backup’
B&O Beomaster 5000 picked up on a whim and stuck in a cupboard.
Obligatory box of foo wires, plugs and cables which make no difference to the sound at all.
Some of which will be used to make a new system once we have moved.
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Please! Let's not do this!
I'm fighting the urge to get into nice HiFi. In the last 18 months I've started buying vinyl again and re-set up my Technics TT with Denon amp and rubbish bookshelf speakers. I still have my old vinyl so enjoying listening to it all again. Unfortunately the set up sounds rubbish so keep thinking about upgrading.
I need an amp, turntable, speakers and CD player if anyone has any cast offs ;) Ideally as small as possible
I've spent a fortune on HiFi ever since I was a teenager.
The best I ever had was a complete Meridian system with 500 series electronics and active speakers.
I currently spend more time watching movies than listening to music and have an Apple TV 4K as source with Arcam AVR and Focal Aria/Dome atmos speaker system with SVS and Paradigm subwoofers.
Watches are an interest but Hifi & music is my passion. I dont collect Hifi but I am an avid music collector and spend more on music than anything else.
My kit consists of:
Playback Designs MPS5 SACD player
Audio Research 40th Anniversary preamp
Bent Audio Silver TVC pre amp (passive)
Brinkmann LaGrange TT with Kuzma 4Point & ZYX Ayame Cartridge
Yamaha KX1200 tape deck (collects dust mostly)
Speakers are a work in progress after I sold my last pair to move to a 4-way Active Horn Hybrid system thats been years in the making. The prototyping is done and my pair are finally in build. These will be a no compromise build using mostly TAD drivers and will be EPIC.
Cheers
SimAudio Moon 5 amp and cd, Proac D2 speakers on dreadnought stands, power via a pure stabiliser, Abbey Road cables, Lehmann headphone amp powering Sennheiser or Sony headphones. Best of all it has wife’s approval.
PMC PB1i
PMC CB6i
Arcam AVR750
Oppo UDP-203
Tannoy Gold studio monitors (15")
Rogers JR149 with sub-woofer
Arcam A80
Marantz KI Signature 63 CD Player
Cheap Goldring turntable
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Exposure dual 1V power
Exposure 23 pre
Meridian 206 cd
Synology nas
Pmc twenty5 23 speakers
Also got exposure 6/7 and 8
Denon avr4310
And rega p2 turntable
Haven’t listened to any of it for the last 6 months I should have a clear out really
I have got 2 traditional Hifi systems and a set of streaming wireless speakers.
In the UK
Lounge system :-
Naim Nac 52 pre amp plus PSU.
Nap300 power amp plus PSU
Garrard 401 Turntable plus Garrard PSU with Naim Aro arm and Dyna vectra cartridge
Naim NAT01 tuner
Naim CDS3 CD Player plus PSU
Shahinain Arc speakers.
Dining room system
Naim 32.5 pre amp plus Naim Hicap
Naim 250 power amp plus Hicap
Naim CDX CD player
Nato4 Tuner
Naim SBL speakers.
Spanish Villa
Set of Kef wireless speakers which acts as a sound bar for the TV and also for streaming music. I am listening to Diana Krall as I type this right now.
It's a reasonable sound but not in the Naim league.
LP12 - Ortofon VMS20e
Quad 33 pre amp to two 202 Monos.
B&W DM4's
Gave it all away.
Now fully recovered.
I'm a bit of a fan myself
TURNTABLE SETUP
Michell Orbe, SME V Benz Wood Missing Link Log-Rhythm MK-2 Phono Interconnect
Fidelity Audio Custom Power Supply
Rothwell MC1 SUT
Rothwell Rialto
SPEAKER STUFF
ATC 150 Amp
ATC C1 Center Speaker
ATC SCM40 speakers
Roth OLI RA1 Rear speakers
KEF Sub
Clocked Marantz SA-KI Pearl Lite
Fidelity Audio Dac 150 SE
Fidelity Audio NNU X Reference Mains Purifier
Missing Link Mains cables, Alaqeia Interconnect, Dark Art
Audio Wire Speaker cable with Fidelity Audio NN Z Speaker Purifier
I have a Teac 500 reference I bought new over 20 years ago! Still a great bit of kit.
Also have a Cyrus 2, Beomaster 4000 (bought on here), Thorens TD125 turntable and a Rega Planar 3 my Dad bought me for my 21st in 1985!
I'm seeing some similarities here.
UK System 1 Naim NAC252 (powered by a Naim SuperCap), Naim NAP300, Naim HDX Music store/streamer (powered by a Teddy Pardo XPS), Naim Superline Phono stage (powered by a Teddy Supercap), Garrard 301, Koetsu Rosewood cartridge, Quad 2805 Electrostatics.
UK System 2 Naim Supernait, Naim ND5 network player, PerfectWave CD transport, B+W 805 speakers.
Spanish Flat - some no name tower system that the previous owners left there. Sounds horrid, but we can't have anything loud as it would annoy the neighbours.
Beosound 9000 and Beolab 5s.
Blimey that likeness is almost uncanny.
The main reason that I went digital in Spain is that LPs are almost non existant and CDs are mainly horrid stuff of artists I have never heard of.
And they say 'travel broadens the mind'
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Lovely looking set upI'm a bit of a fan myself
TURNTABLE SETUP
Michell Orbe, SME V Benz Wood Missing Link Log-Rhythm MK-2 Phono Interconnect
Fidelity Audio Custom Power Supply
Rothwell MC1 SUT
Rothwell Rialto
SPEAKER STUFF
ATC 150 Amp
ATC C1 Center Speaker
ATC SCM40 speakers
Roth OLI RA1 Rear speakers
KEF Sub
Clocked Marantz SA-KI Pearl Lite
Fidelity Audio Dac 150 SE
Fidelity Audio NNU X Reference Mains Purifier
Missing Link Mains cables, Alaqeia Interconnect, Dark Art
Audio Wire Speaker cable with Fidelity Audio NN Z Speaker Purifier
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SME Model 30; SME Series V; Ortofon A90
Whest MC Ref V dual mono phone stage
Naim CDS II
Heavily-modified Naim NAC 52
ATC SCM150ASLT
ATC SCM150 very nice bet they sound amazing I'm happy with my little 40s
Primare amp and CD player,Audio Physic Virgo speakers ,lovely.
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All ATCs are fantastic, the best speakers money can buy IMO. Someone once described them as "the voice of God, with a choir of angels", or somesuch, which was amusing.
A numark tt-1510 turntable
NAD cd transport
QED digit reference DAC
Feeding an...
Exposure super xv amp
Polk audio rt12 floorstanding speakers
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P.S. what's happened to your SME V? No bridge?
This is always the challenge, the more you spend you end up with ever diminishing returns.
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Do you have any issues with the turntable being on the same rack as your centre speaker. Isolating turntables can be a real pain.I'm a bit of a fan myself
TURNTABLE SETUP
Michell Orbe, SME V Benz Wood Missing Link Log-Rhythm MK-2 Phono Interconnect
Fidelity Audio Custom Power Supply
Rothwell MC1 SUT
Rothwell Rialto
SPEAKER STUFF
ATC 150 Amp
ATC C1 Center Speaker
ATC SCM40 speakers
Roth OLI RA1 Rear speakers
KEF Sub
Clocked Marantz SA-KI Pearl Lite
Fidelity Audio Dac 150 SE
Fidelity Audio NNU X Reference Mains Purifier
Missing Link Mains cables, Alaqeia Interconnect, Dark Art
Audio Wire Speaker cable with Fidelity Audio NN Z Speaker Purifier
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Linn LP12 for vinyl and Linn DS for digital, Naim preamp and active crossover, 4x homemade power amps into Naim SL2 speakers plus nSub. Going active was a revelation, I can't imagine ever running a passive loudspeaker again.
No because the centre speaker is only used as part of the AV system so its never on if I'm listening to the Orbe (turntable)
Normally its sat on my HiFi rack but I've just moved and there isn't the space so the CD player and DAC plus rack are all packed up
Makes sense. I have a seperate setup for movies. I have a 65" Panasonic rigged to an Nvidia shield and a synology 8 bay nas with 21tb of storage. For sound I have a Denon Dolby Atmos amp and Dali speakers and a Cambridge Audio subwoofer.No because the centre speaker is only used as part of the AV system so its never on if I'm listening to the Orbe (turntable)
Normally its sat on my HiFi rack but I've just moved and there isn't the space so the CD player and DAC plus rack are all packed up
Surround amps aren't great for music.
Oh I do also have a project audio turntable and Cambridge Audio pre-amp for the denon.
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I use an old Marantz SR5008 for my 5.1 but it only powers my Centre ATC speaker and Roth rears the front 2 ATC SCM40s are power by
My ATC HiFi amp
The Roth's replaced my old Kef Egg which were crap in comparison the Roths are great little speakers I only picked them up last month
Beolab 9 fronts, Beolab 8000 rear.
I used to have the following - paid for by my Y2K bonus in 2001
Arcam DiVA A85 amp
Arcam DiVA CD72 cd player
KEF Q55.2 floorstanders
QED Silver Anniversary speaker cable (bi-wired)
Van den Hul D102 III Hybrid interconnects
Atacama Equinox hifi rack
Did me very well for a few years, until the rug rats turned up and I couldn't use the lounge as my man-cave :(
Now I'm reduced to decent headphones and portable sources, or the car
I know that feeling lol!I used to have the following - paid for by my Y2K bonus in 2001
Arcam DiVA A85 amp
Arcam DiVA CD72 cd player
KEF Q55.2 floorstanders
QED Silver Anniversary speaker cable (bi-wired)
Van den Hul D102 III Hybrid interconnects
Atacama Equinox hifi rack
Did me very well for a few years, until the rug rats turned up and I couldn't use the lounge as my man-cave :(
Now I'm reduced to decent headphones and portable sources, or the car
I have two daughters.
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I have a lovely Arcam setup but need to find a streamer that can handle all typical files including FLAC and ideally work with Alexa. Any suggestions?
Those Rogers JR149's are the same drivers as the legendary LS3/5A's and command high second hand prices. The sponge surrounds can perish over the years.
Has anyone experienced a Naim Uniti Nova and can say how it compares to the set ups in this thread?
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I use Audirvana to play hi-res files through a Schiit Modi DAC to a Schiit Magni headphone amp, and listen on Oppo PM3s. A very satisfying, detailed setup.
My portable pair are an A&K Jr and a B&O H6, also playing hi-res files usually. Also sounds pretty good!
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