by totoboyalburo » Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:21 am
chaps, I am a newbie here and after looking of the set ups you had, mine is just peanuts but I am very happy with it (Yamaha Receiver for an Amp, Cheap Pioneer CD Player, PSB B6, cheap XLO cable). After the audition at listening in style in Shang rila, yes they do sound awesome, that section where the currency change from Peso to USD, and just looking at the set up the only thing I can afford is a "CD"..... then the sales tech took me to the room where there are loads of Sonus & Amps which looks like they were build by aliens and they do sound awesome but it was dwarfed to the ones outside, those big blue eyes with wipers in them that moves, wicked set up. In the end it all boils down to how much your ears can take in terms of cost. My peanut system which sounds brilliant to me, and I enjoyed it a lot, and I spend most of my sunday just listening to 3 or 4 cds without a break. a lot of times I can sleep with the quality of music it plays. Not like those people in the audio shops where they try to compare the sounds of this and that, and after hours of comparing this and that, not a single song was finished. I don't know about you guys, its like in a band where the guitarist just plays intros to all the familiar songs and not a single song is finished. Probably I am a musicphile if there is a word. I do listen to a wide spectrum of music from Beethoven to Metallica depending on my mood and I believe a decent sound quality is very important to me but not too bloody expensive with reference to the blue eyes with wipers where the cables cost more than my car. I might upgrade later in I have the budget, probably a good power amp and pre amp, solid states not tube valves, although they look awesome but it is the music that I listen. I don't look the amps all the time and the music I listen are always a bit more of rock rather than classical and those amps should be preowned so I can afford it. I don't know if I can get a decent sounding amp and pre amp for less than 50k if its preowned? But I am happy that I have found this forum where I can get inputs from you guys and I do hope you won't advise me again to buy those blue eyes with wipers in them, I just couldn't afford it.