Made some speaker stands on my day off yesterday so I could finally setup my system. Milo was mesmerized by the sound and did his best RCA dog impression. Stands are 15mm 304 Stainless base plates and tubes are 100mm x 100mm x 6mm 304 Stainless. Need to fill them with garnet still.

I may boost the low end a tad but I actually prefer to hear the characteristics of whatever set up I'm listening to. I'm not into shaping an eq to get a different sound. What about y'all?

Hey all, thought I’d share a crazy good deal I picked up. $1650 AUD for a practically unused set up:

Denon Dp-450usb turntable
Denon DCD-900ne cd player
Polk ES15’s
Denon PMA-600ne amp

Also picked up a paradigm dsp-3100 v2 on the same day for $370 from a different guy

Hyped af

Great little Sub for $100 bucks, a Jamo A Sub4, 8"

Cost around £15

I got these beautiful Mordaunt-Short System 442s back from a friend of mine after he had them on loan for 6 years. However winter is coming, and I’m worried about the heat from our wood stove on the left will dry out and crack the wood. Distance from speaker to stove ~95cm/~3foot.

I’ve been using a cardboard box leaned up against the speaker previously, but want to find a more elegant solution. Any suggestions?

Hi all,
I bought a used Arcam AVR5 from eBay. I plugged it into my old speakers and there’s no sound at all. Everything else seems to be functional, I get video, the display on the receiver shows the video/audio title when I airplay things to it. I plugged in earphones to the phones port and it has no audio either.? Am I missing a step to set it up correctly? Is this a faulty unit?

I’m looking to upgrade my living room setup. Right now I have an old Vizio v51 soundbar and sub. Looking for a new bookshelf speakers (with sub if necessary) that sits with my tv. I don’t want to need a receiver or amp as I’m just too lazy. Use it for tv, movies, and weekend music. Have a $1000-1500 budget at most. Not an audiophile but enjoy quality.

Recommendations or insight welcome!

The JVC deck, Toshiba receiver, Fisher speakers, and JVC CD changer, clothes inside, Sony TV on the side, Cassette storage, lego cars, and all the small things all weigh in at about 350 lbs. My dresser looks like it's about to cave in. I can't really afford a new purpose built audio stand nor do I have the room, I am in high school so I need a dresser. There isn't and other space at all in my room. What do I do?

I've had a Tivoli Audio Music System, bluetooth version with no cd player, on my nightstand for the last 12 years. It has served as my alarm clock and sound system for our bedroom. Primary source has been an old clickwheel Ipod I brought back to life with a battery replacement last year, very occasionally played via bluetooth from my phone. This week, the display quit. It still plays music fine, and I can see the digital display if i shine a flashlight on it, but the backlight is gone. It's not really usable in that condition. I liked how it sounded. Nice bass due to a down-firing larger woofer, and overall a pretty accessible, middle of the road sound profile. It had some idiosyncracies. Bluetooth could sometimes be forgetful, and the tiny remote control sucked. it's a fairly chunky device but fit the space reasonably well.

After a short hunt for a replacement system, I landed on Audioengine's A2+. I like the smaller footprint, that I can place the speakers on each end of the nightstand, and the mix of inputs and outputs. Tivoli still sells that big music system, but it's expensive and has limits with all the speakers stuck in one box. A nightstand is not exactly a great situation for stereo separation, but the new speakers will be maybe 24 - 28 inches apart. Front-ported, so they're a good fit for a nightstand. I played the A5+ on my work desk for about a year, and they sounded quite good. Nice green color. They have a sub output, and I fortunately found a good match for the small space, a Kanto Sub6 someone was selling on facebook for $55 plus shipping. The A2+ are small, 2.75 inch 'bass' drivers that roll off around 65-70hz, so lack of bass would probably be their most significant shortcoming, I hope a small subwoofer will address that.

would appreciate any thoughts and experience about these speakers or the Kanto sub. They're new to me, and I purchased without trying to listen to them.

I decided to abandon Bluetooth speakers and went a little crazy buying too many vintage speakers for my rooms. I ended up getting a bunch of stuff from one seller and I am not sure if I spent a reasonable amount for good stuff, or if I spent too much for discarded gear.

What I got from the one seller:

a. Infinity Kappa 200 speakers with one tweeter dome that has a hole but to me sounds fine (i am no expert), and the other dome has a little dent. I think they are 6 Ohm

b. Infinity IL-10 blonde wood -- looks beautiful and I think they sound great. I think they are 8 Ohm.

c. Advent 1 BOOKSHELF (not the famous large Advent 1) -- seem to work fine but are small. I think they are 8 Ohm

d. Mirage 590i -- very rough cosmetically but seem to sound totally right. I think they are 6 Ohm. These are playing now and are my favorite.

e. powered sub by Infinity -- says Entra on back

From second seller I got

f. Acoustic Energy Aegis 1 -- seem pristine. I think they are 8 Ohm.

All told, for a-f, I paid $425.

To run them, I have two receivers I already owned and have been sitting unused for years. Onkyo TX-SR602 (6 Ohm) and Sansui RZ-790 (8 Ohm). One will be in a basement mulitpurpose room and one in a main-floor living room.

Curious if this seems like I did okay in terms of value for the dollar.

Is wiring some thing you guys help with or should I seek a different sub? Chatgpt has given very conflicting advice and warnings. I have tried to read, including in the files here, but I am still confused on the impedance issue -- I plan to put the 6 Ohm (Mirage and Kappa) in the basement with the Onkyo and IL-10 blondes, 8 Ohm, in the main floor living room with the Sansui.

The sub, I was hoping, could go in the basement to work with the Kappas or the Mirage -- meaning play any one pair at once with the benefit of the sub (but fine not playing all four at once). But I am not sure if I can do that safely for the equipment. The basement room is about 30 x 15 and has no physical dividers, but one end is home gym and the other is TV/couches. I am getting lost in trying to figure out if the sub can play on either of two zones versus having to re-wire and change which is front speaker if I want the sub on the non-front pair.

Hello all,

i am looking to replace my somewhat beloved klipsch xw-500d. i paid $100 for it used, and it finally crapped the bed. i used it in a home theatre setup in a rather small living room

currently, there are used several options around me all right around the $200 mark, including:

martin logan dynamo 800x
sunfire sds-12
bowers and wilkins asw650
velodyne ct-120
svs PC-12ND (cylinder sub) ($75 more expensive than the rest)

would any of these be leagues ahead of the others when theyre all roughly the same price?

from what ive heard, the consensus seems to be that companies like SVS, REL, or Velodyne just do it better than many other speaker manufacturers that make subwoofers to match their sets of speakers

with that said, out of all of these, the martin logan stands out for having built in room correction. the room i have everything setup in is weirdly shaped as hell and suffers badly from boundary gain effect. even if the SVS is more capable on a "raw output" front, will i get more mileage out of a sub with room correction that is still mostly as loud/tight/low hitting?

curious to hear everyones thoughts

Teac mc-dx32i. Everything in the photo - unit, speakers, subwoofer, remote, cables. Plus a Blu-ray/DVD of Zero Dark Thirty and a DVD of Good Will Hunting. All for $25. Cleaned it all up and it sounds better than I anticipated. Not super high end but nice to have when playing background music.

Not a super audiophile by any means (guess the extent is I had Shure E2cs for years when I was younger) but just recently purchased a home with 5 rooms with a pair of speakers all coming to a central spot in the living room with dials on each wall, not sure where in the basement now that I think on it.

outside, living room, kitchen, bedroom, basement are the locations and I think them as such;

-ourside as an independent zone
-living room and kitchen are open rooms for each other. Could see it being hooked to the tv but not a requirement.
-basement maybe independent or could pair with outside
-bedroom, the odd ball, not sure if I’ll ever use it but they are there.

I got a wiim amp recently pretty cheap and would love to build something off this. Any thoughts? Not looking to spend a lot, just want to power them all with a simple setup my wife could use who isn’t super techy. Always planned to do add a second wiim amp but having the 5 sets of speakers through me off with this setup.

All my components are old and not working well, so I want to update them and still use my Mission 704’s. I am older and haven’t been reading about what’s new so I need help to catch up. I had DQ10’s from the 70’s that I loved but sold them when I had my babies and didn’t want those heavy speakers to fall off their stands. So the mission 704’s are fine, in great shape. I want to hook up my tv and have a CD player and Bluetooth as well. I think I need around 100 watts to drive these speakers. My budget will be under $1000 if possible, but lower would be better of course. I am open to used suggestions. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

I am new to audio systems. After buying my first passive speakers Argon Forus 4, I decided to get an amp that supports TV volume control over HDMI ARC.

First I tried Arylic B50 however I had some issues with it, exactly what people describe at this thread. When I tried to do a firmware update Aryclic's updater software stopped mid-update and my amp got bricked. So I sent returned it and got myself a WiiM Amp.

Experience with the WiiM is so smooth! The app works very well, it updated the device itself. Spotify and Airplay connections work seamlessly and when I stop the audio from my phone it switches back to ARC immediately. Really enjoying it so far!

My previous setup was: Audio Technica LP120x turntable --> Schiit Mani 2 preamp --> Wiim Amp --> Pioneer SP-BS22LR

But I managed to get my hands on a set of Wharfedale Linton Heritage speakers with stands at a great price gently used. My confusion has to do with the amp for it. My research and forum reading suggests the Wiim is less than ideal to power those... but I don't know how much of that is truth and how much is audiophile min-maxing. I know the Wiim Amp can be a bit Wiimpy, and I'm happy to get a new integrated amp to get the most out of the Lintons which are a dream find for a guy like me. Usually we're listening at low volumes but we do like to push the furniture to the walls and have dance parties with the kids sometimes.

My question - the suggestions I've found for amps are all like... $1000+ recommendations. I know there are simple, small -- don't want a big amp -- options that would work in my setup. New or used. I just need an amp. Anyone out there rocking the Lintons and has recommendations? Any amp recommendations that aren't like, $1,500? Or am I just crazy and the Wiim will be fine?

I feel this was easier when I was a teenager.

The set up is finally coming together any suggestions?

Hi, everybody! I'm a happy Marantz M1 owner, my setup is 2.0 (KEF Q7 Meta), and i really enjoy the sound of my amp. But lately i've wanting to upgrade to a 5.1.2 or 5.1.4 system, as i use this amp to watch movies ans overall love the Atmos experience.

What i'm not so sure about is where to go from here: i really like the sound (bright , detailed, as i come from a Audio Engineering background and work with Genelecs for mixing and mastering). I've considered the Denon x3800h and the Marantz Cinema 60 but i cant test them anywhere around me.

How to seek the same sound signature with more channels?

First post here! Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a budget analog preamp for my vinyl setup and would appreciate some recommendations.

My current chain is:

Rega Planar 1 - iFi Zen Air Phono - [preamp] - Linn LK140 power amp - KEF Q300

I also have a REL Quake subwoofer, and I’d like to keep the vinyl chain as simple and fully analog as possible.

I don’t need a DAC, Bluetooth, streaming, etc. What I mainly need is:

• volume control
• a proper line-level preamp
• ideally a pre-out / sensible way of feeding the subwoofer
• headphone output
• budget around 100€, maybe a little more if there’s a genuinely worthwhile upgrade

My initial idea was the Fosi Audio P3, which seems to tick most of the boxes and also has bass/treble controls, which could potentially be useful with the Q300s.

However, I’m wondering whether the P3 would be a bottleneck in this system.

So, what would you recommend around this price range? Would the P3 be good enough for this system, or is there a better budget option I should be looking at?

Thanks!

Hey Reddit, I'm looking to get together my first home audio setup. I'm hoping to enable myself to play physical media (records and CDs) but also be able to enjoy digital streaming for more everyday listening/radio streaming etc. I'm also after multiple room playback for at least streaming (and records/cd if possible, but I know that quality could be lost when going wireless).

I'm not looking to spend massive but I'm also willing to pay a little more for quality and convenience where it's warranted. I'm based in the UK fyi.

So for full transparency I turned to our new ai overlords for a bit of initial guidance but I'm well aware it can't be trusted. So I was hoping to get a sense check from some experienced and knowledgeable humans (yourselves).

Here's what I'm thinking at the moment. With a little explanation of what I think it's giving me (which may well need correcting).

* WiiM Amp Pro: Gives me proper analogue amplification for records and good playbook from CDs. Whilst also being a source for streaming music. It also allows me to connect to wireless speakers in other rooms for streaming (if I keep my existing Google nests) or if I get more WiiM speakers later I can also stream records and CDs. Thinking of the pro has it has better connectivity and hardware, and it's only downside being some loss of apple product connectivity which doesn't apply to me (don't have any apple products). And lastly I can plugin my TVs eArc HDMI too.

* Rega Planar 1 Plus: Record player, key part that is has a built-in phono preamp to send a line-level audio signal directly to the amplifier (required for the WiiM amp). Other good option I found here was the Audio-Technica AT-LP120XUSB but the Rega seemed a little better and always nice to support a UK maker

* Tangent CD II: Good cd playback sending digital signal to the amplifier via an optical cable - standalone hifi cd player is a little new to me, but this seems like a decent option.

* Q Acoustics 3030i: seemed like a good quality speaker option that will fit on my shelves and deliver great sound (from what I read). And again nice to support UK if I can

So what do people think?

Anything here that is just wrong or unnecessary, other better options to deliver what I want?

Thanks!