A few years ago an electrician who was wiring a house I was working at for speakers everywhere, left a big reel of speaker wire lying around (don't know what make, but pretty thick) and when he wasn't looking I snipped 4 or 5 metres off it. Last year I acquired a mint pair of Celestion 5's minus tweeters from a fellow member for free, got some mint tweeters off Ebay for £18, bought an Amptastic Mini 1 for £80 and connected it to an Echo Dot that was doing nothing. Along with Spotify (which I didn't know I had) on my laptop, I'm getting some pretty good sounds.
At a total cost of £128 not as cheap as Craig's set up, but still cheap enough to pass under Mrs. P's radar. And now I've just added my 8 year old Bk sub for added chunkiness.
It is about 1/100th the cost of the main set up, and probably gives about 70% of the sound, so happy days!
Next I'm going to make my own stands for the speakers, try and get another 5% improvement!
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
Forget the past, it's gone. And don't worry about the future, it doesn't exist. There is only NOW.
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Originally Posted by icehockeyboy
