Who's up for a "Cheap as Chips" Challenge?

[Tim]

How many are taking up the challenge at the moment?

After selling off one bit of my system and swapping another I currently have;

A nice Marantz cd player
A Garrard turntable with Grado cartridge
A Denon tuner
A Leak amp
A pair of B&W speakers and some stands
A couple of isolation platforms.
An oscilloscope to help me sort out the small problem with the amp

With a little left over for some cables.

I'm all for chipping in for sharing a room for the systems.

Gordon Bennett and all I have are some crappy stands a mate was throwing away - maybe this wasn't such a good idea for a numptie like me

[Jonboy]

C'mon Jon, would you want this tat in the AoS room?

Might get Marco worried though as he might here some proper Hifi instead of his old tat

[Reid Malenfant]

[Dingdong]

Gordon Bennett and all I have are some crappy stands a mate was throwing away - maybe this wasn't such a good idea for a numptie like me

You've got loads of time. If you need some speaker cable I've got a couple of bits spare that you can have really cheap.

[Alex_UK]

Probably not my place to comment as I'll not be able to get to Scalford, but isn't the Scalford show the worst place to do this? I mean, Scalford is a once a year chance for everyone to get together, hear lots of different systems at a wide range of price points - most people who went to the show this year commented that they didn't have enough time to get around all the rooms and hear everything they wanted to. Anyone doing this challange is just about foregoing the chance to listen to anything else during the show.

Why not hire a room above a pub somewhere for an afternoon well before Scalford to do this (and arrange a meal for everyone afterwards - do that in the same pub and you'll probably get the upstairs room for free anyway). Maybe use this to get it down to the top two systems and use Scalford as the final shootout?

As I say, not really up to me to comment as I won't be taking part, but just my 2p worth.

Pretty sure I floated this idea before, of making it a separate "social" occasion (i.e. piss-up) for those who want to have a go... Maybe we could go for that, depending on the number of interested parties.

Maybe I should try a poll to see what folks would prefer - but feel free to post here your preferences.

[Jac Hawk]

Any idea when a set of rules will be hammered out Alex?

[nat8808]

How full a system is it intended to be?

Would just a cd player and active speakers count? Does it have to function fully or is it sound quality that counts? (Could put some resistors on the output and have a fixed volume - cheaper than a pot or pre-amp).

People's lists seem to include multiple sources which would seem to be stretching budgets .. but perhaps it shouldn't be pointed out and them left to their own ways (but not win).

[Jac Hawk]

I think the idea is to have a source, vinyl, CD etc. and some way of hearing it, how you accomplish that is up to you, I personally will either go with vinyl or CD as source with an integrated amp and speakers, my idea is to try to put together a system that will knock the socks of something costing 4 times the price if bought out of say a high street HiFi shop, but not need too much in the way of moding, so that it could be put together by an average joe, regardless of how good they are with a soldering iron etc.

[Alex_UK]

Sorry guys, I'll get to it eventually... (this week's excuse is that I'm on holiday, next week's will be that I'm at work! )

[Mike]

Just found this and there's too many pages to read through ATM...

Is it still "best system for £100"?

I'm tempted!