larky
08-06-2015, 16:36
Hi i am Pete, like beer :cool: (well I do run a pub), cigs, golf & banter, from a small village near Redditch.
After Christmas thought i would get back into AV/HiFi again, so, dug out a set of old KEF eggs & sub hooked up to a recently acquired pioneer receiver and was promptly under whelmed. I had remember the KEF's sounding better. :rolleyes:
And so the slippery slope began...set myself a budget for new speakers, very quickly escalated after hearing various offerings and ended up with some Tannoy dc6t se fronts & dc4lcr, dc4 rears. dc4lcr, quickly replaced by a matching dc6se..all was was wonderful...except music sounded pants through the pioneer :scratch: Suddenly I remember an old amp I had bought in 1989, after some 'Storage wars' type box opening, there she was, an Audiolab 8000a :champagne:
All hooked up, sounded much better, but still flat, lifeless altogether listless. Which is when I found this site, I have been using rpi's for a couple of years for xbmc/kodi streaming and had seen a new dac out for the rpi2 and whilst researching found Marco's thread( still about page 2 then !) and now everything is wonderful( well sort of) with the pi feeding into the audiolab.
So next job this month, probably some Temple audio mono's from battery and a passive pre of some type..then a new receiver or maybe pre/pro, cables, interconnects, sub argh
Cheers Pete
After Christmas thought i would get back into AV/HiFi again, so, dug out a set of old KEF eggs & sub hooked up to a recently acquired pioneer receiver and was promptly under whelmed. I had remember the KEF's sounding better. :rolleyes:
And so the slippery slope began...set myself a budget for new speakers, very quickly escalated after hearing various offerings and ended up with some Tannoy dc6t se fronts & dc4lcr, dc4 rears. dc4lcr, quickly replaced by a matching dc6se..all was was wonderful...except music sounded pants through the pioneer :scratch: Suddenly I remember an old amp I had bought in 1989, after some 'Storage wars' type box opening, there she was, an Audiolab 8000a :champagne:
All hooked up, sounded much better, but still flat, lifeless altogether listless. Which is when I found this site, I have been using rpi's for a couple of years for xbmc/kodi streaming and had seen a new dac out for the rpi2 and whilst researching found Marco's thread( still about page 2 then !) and now everything is wonderful( well sort of) with the pi feeding into the audiolab.
So next job this month, probably some Temple audio mono's from battery and a passive pre of some type..then a new receiver or maybe pre/pro, cables, interconnects, sub argh
Cheers Pete