£500 kitchen system with wall mounted speakers - Linn Sara + XTZ A100D3 amplifier?

[The Grand Wazoo]

How easy is it to get some AR speakers, though?

Well, there are at least 6 pairs of ARs of different descriptions on Ebay at this minute, so pretty easy really. I bought a pair of 2ax at Christmas for well under 40 quid - I'm listening to them now and they sound fantastic. I also have a pair of 44BX standmount monsters, which I paid £5.50 for!

[istari_knight]

Bose Wave radio ?

[Macca]

Didn't your ARs need refoaming though, Chris?

[istari_knight]

Didn't your ARs need refoaming though, Chris?

AFAIK, AR4 / AR4xa are the only one's that don't require refoaming as they use cloth surrounds.

[The Grand Wazoo]

The 44s did. But that cost £17, so £22.50 in total - less than a tenth of the Saras in the OP and a bloody sight easier to make sound good. I use them in my office, connected to a Mini-T and they sound incredible.
The Saras are really fussy about siting and I'd think that wall mounting in a kitchen would give you a fairly limited number of possible positions due to all the stuff that hangs off most kitchen walls.

[Macca]

All makes sense. So what I said except with the AR instead of the JBLs.

Or a Bose Wave Radio. Oprah recommends them.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Oprah recommends them.

That should swing it then!

[istari_knight]

Or a Bose Wave Radio. Oprah recommends them.

Took a whole 7 minutes for a comment !

[Macca]

Took a whole 7 minutes for a comment !

Might be shit hot for all I know I have never heard one. Although did have a work colleague once who had one and thought it was the business. I suppose it is all about frames of reference. I was going to get one for my old mum once but they are not cheap.

[istari_knight]

They are fantastic clock radio's... Problem is some people get confused & think they're a viable replacement for a hifi system.