Amp and speakers for £1,000 recommendations please...

[Vaseline Coated Chicken]

I’d like some speakers and an amp to play my music through. I mainly play my music through Spotify and iTunes. I mostly listen to techno, house and rock n roll.

I’m no audiophile and apologies in advance if this makes me sound like a noob but I’d like some speakers that are loud & bassy if possible and I’d also prefer to purchase second hand.

[rigger67]

Where do you live ??
Might help with recommending gear ..

[Parcelmonkey]

Are the Meridian M2's still for sale on here? Although small in size, loud enough for most purposes with good tight bass and easy to add a source to?

And definitely under budget but won't do massive trouser flapping...

If you're in the Midlands, not a massive trek to MK to see.

There's one suggestion for you. Good luck in your quest...

Ade

[andyrlb]

Are the Meridian M2's still for sale on here? Although small in size, loud enough for most purposes with good tight bass and easy to add a source to?

And definitely under budget but won't do massive trouser flapping...

If you're in the Midlands, not a massive trek to MK to see.

There's one suggestion for you. Good luck in your quest...

Ade

Cheers Ade


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[Macca]

Cerwin Vega would do for the speakers then. Ticks all your boxes and not expensive second hand. You'd maybe have to travel to pick them up though as there are not shedloads of them for sale (in the UK anyway).


I'd also say JBL but they are outside of your budget unless you drop lucky.


Amplifier choice is much wider as pretty much anything will work with them. A Sony from the ES range, perhaps? Plenty of power, decent quality of sound, used prices from £200 and up.

[Vaseline Coated Chicken]

Cerwin Vega would do for the speakers then. Ticks all your boxes and not expensive second hand. You'd maybe have to travel to pick them up though as there are not shedloads of them for sale (in the UK anyway).


I'd also say JBL but they are outside of your budget unless you drop lucky.


Amplifier choice is much wider as pretty much anything will work with them. A Sony from the ES range, perhaps? Plenty of power, decent quality of sound, used prices from £200 and up.

Something like these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cerwin-Ve...AAAOSw3qZa7ez2

[fatmarley]

Something like these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cerwin-Ve...AAAOSw3qZa7ez2

The only thing that would concern me Is combining a 15" to compression driver. I know other companies seem do It well (Tannoy, JBL etc) but a safer bet would be something like Cerwin Vega CLSC 15 with It's smaller upper midrange driver. I haven't heard either though, so could be wrong.

MC2 amplifiers were all the rage on hifi forums a few years back. They are powerful and certain models are supposed to have very good sound quality too.

[Macca]

Something like these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cerwin-Ve...AAAOSw3qZa7ez2

Bigger than I was thinking of but your room is pretty large and they will give the big, clean, bassy sound you are after.

I was thinking more of these, or similar older models:



http://cerwinvega.com/home-audio/flo...ers/sl-12.html

They are not especially accurate speakers, not compared to the alternatives like B&W and Q Acoustics suggested above, but they do have a lot more welly to them which will suit rock and electronic music where the bold strokes matter more than the little subtleties.

[Vaseline Coated Chicken]

So speaker wise will something like these deliver the thumping bass I'd like?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/B-W-BOWER...IAAOSwi3tbFC1E

Still a bit confused with the amp though (forgive me I'm a complete noob to this).

[hifinutt]

There are some super integrated amps at low price like marantz .Its amazing what you can find . I have an old Phillips that cost 100 quid years ago and still sounds good