Hi i am Pete, like beer (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.
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 Suddenly I remember an old amp I had bought in 1989, after some 'Storage wars' type box opening, there she was, an Audiolab 8000a
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