soultrader
03-06-2012, 12:04
Hi People
Happy to be part of this forum, definitely one of the better ones on the web.
My story, well... I'm currently in a predicament and I'm hoping someone on here can help.
I recently bought a set of Paradigm studio 20 version 5 speakers. I bought them because they were half price and I had made a neat profit selling car bits. It's my first time owning decent hi-fi so I can't say much in terms of the sound other than it works. Prior to this I had been looking for speakers for sometime and gained a 'feel' as to what to expect in terms of price and so I felt they were a bargain, especially considering people will pay up to 75% for some of bowers and wilkins lower end gear; stuff for which I originally budgeted.
Naturally, buying these paradigms was going out on a limb and what I didn't anticipate or budget for was the amplification requirements. I now have a beautiful set of speakers being driven by a pathetic 45 watt amplifier and I can just feel the deficiency robbing me of any decent listening pleasure. The amplifier to be more specific is a literally lightweight Sony TA FE-370.
I'm now stuck between whether to sell the speakers or find a decent enough low budget 'good' amp. I was hoping to hold onto them for a bit and have been researching the amp market. I can't afford tubes but know I appreciate 'warm' sound as this happens to the sound coming out of the speakers after the amp has warmed up. I don't want to spend much as I've already blown my budget on speakers. 200 the absolute max. Preferably around the 100 mark for something like a pioneer a676 would be nice. I noticed I missed out on this already from a certain bear on these forums. Ebay has all but dried up, I wasn't sure when they were available whether it was the amp for me. I've looked into some of technics stuff but there's a lot of them and I don't know what to make of them.
My listening space is a bedroom of around 5 by 5 metres. I don't have the sound particularly loud but I want an amp with good fidelity, not sure if wattage is an indicator of this.
Other amps I've liked the look of include:
Marantz pm 7200
Technics su vx range
Please, any help or offers in helping me choose or buy an amplifier would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Mr. Farooq
p.s. for anyone interested...
My musical journey started as a youngster (duh!). Back then it was the summer of '99 and I was buying trance records, a sad start I know. I've always been intrigued by sound/ music and as a youngster I guess buying music was tainted with me wanting to appear cool, who knows. Although one thing was certain I just couldn't deal with chart music and when trance finally did make it into mainstream I was gutted, lol. Besides, my listening experiences back then were never broad enough for me to pay attention to better music, back then I probably would have happily wrote off half of the stuff I listen to now. Never really had good music around me either so I've had to develop and seek out my own tastes. But help did come in the form of my sister who introduced me to Gilles Peterson and his worldwide show, this opened up doors for me in terms of exposure to different sounds, old and new, urban and your not so urban, this was right around the time he dropped his INCredible mix. It's hard to describe what you like as being a list of genres, because although I like music which spans a lot of genres I also hate a lot of the stuff in the same genres, stuff which might even be considered essential listening. If I had to though I'd describe my favourite musis as deep emotive beats with urban sentiments. I find today this is best expressed through the recent works of Kromestar (be warned his styles vary and he can make awful grimy stuff to, probably best to check his albums 'my sound and colourful vibrations)... otherwise I like stuff that is MOBO particularly the jazz, funk and soul of the late 60's and early 70's, Housey stuff, Electronic stuff... pfff can't really think right now, stuff I don't listen to? probably Classical, Rock and Indie. Don't like to appear conceited in musical taste and don't treat listening and collecting music like a wine tasting party. Although I've since stopped buying vinyl, I find the best music has always been on vinyl? the best stuff to come out of the charts as of late? emeli sande - heaven, alicia keys - new york...
that's me done, anything else?
Happy to be part of this forum, definitely one of the better ones on the web.
My story, well... I'm currently in a predicament and I'm hoping someone on here can help.
I recently bought a set of Paradigm studio 20 version 5 speakers. I bought them because they were half price and I had made a neat profit selling car bits. It's my first time owning decent hi-fi so I can't say much in terms of the sound other than it works. Prior to this I had been looking for speakers for sometime and gained a 'feel' as to what to expect in terms of price and so I felt they were a bargain, especially considering people will pay up to 75% for some of bowers and wilkins lower end gear; stuff for which I originally budgeted.
Naturally, buying these paradigms was going out on a limb and what I didn't anticipate or budget for was the amplification requirements. I now have a beautiful set of speakers being driven by a pathetic 45 watt amplifier and I can just feel the deficiency robbing me of any decent listening pleasure. The amplifier to be more specific is a literally lightweight Sony TA FE-370.
I'm now stuck between whether to sell the speakers or find a decent enough low budget 'good' amp. I was hoping to hold onto them for a bit and have been researching the amp market. I can't afford tubes but know I appreciate 'warm' sound as this happens to the sound coming out of the speakers after the amp has warmed up. I don't want to spend much as I've already blown my budget on speakers. 200 the absolute max. Preferably around the 100 mark for something like a pioneer a676 would be nice. I noticed I missed out on this already from a certain bear on these forums. Ebay has all but dried up, I wasn't sure when they were available whether it was the amp for me. I've looked into some of technics stuff but there's a lot of them and I don't know what to make of them.
My listening space is a bedroom of around 5 by 5 metres. I don't have the sound particularly loud but I want an amp with good fidelity, not sure if wattage is an indicator of this.
Other amps I've liked the look of include:
Marantz pm 7200
Technics su vx range
Please, any help or offers in helping me choose or buy an amplifier would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Mr. Farooq
p.s. for anyone interested...
My musical journey started as a youngster (duh!). Back then it was the summer of '99 and I was buying trance records, a sad start I know. I've always been intrigued by sound/ music and as a youngster I guess buying music was tainted with me wanting to appear cool, who knows. Although one thing was certain I just couldn't deal with chart music and when trance finally did make it into mainstream I was gutted, lol. Besides, my listening experiences back then were never broad enough for me to pay attention to better music, back then I probably would have happily wrote off half of the stuff I listen to now. Never really had good music around me either so I've had to develop and seek out my own tastes. But help did come in the form of my sister who introduced me to Gilles Peterson and his worldwide show, this opened up doors for me in terms of exposure to different sounds, old and new, urban and your not so urban, this was right around the time he dropped his INCredible mix. It's hard to describe what you like as being a list of genres, because although I like music which spans a lot of genres I also hate a lot of the stuff in the same genres, stuff which might even be considered essential listening. If I had to though I'd describe my favourite musis as deep emotive beats with urban sentiments. I find today this is best expressed through the recent works of Kromestar (be warned his styles vary and he can make awful grimy stuff to, probably best to check his albums 'my sound and colourful vibrations)... otherwise I like stuff that is MOBO particularly the jazz, funk and soul of the late 60's and early 70's, Housey stuff, Electronic stuff... pfff can't really think right now, stuff I don't listen to? probably Classical, Rock and Indie. Don't like to appear conceited in musical taste and don't treat listening and collecting music like a wine tasting party. Although I've since stopped buying vinyl, I find the best music has always been on vinyl? the best stuff to come out of the charts as of late? emeli sande - heaven, alicia keys - new york...
that's me done, anything else?