Advise on A First System

[Stratmangler]

Stratmangler - Noted - I did expect that I would be able to get much cheaper cable from a computer supplier. I just could not work out wht cable would be okay so I had settled on slightly over paying at a HIFI shop. I was thinking of getting this then: http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Pr...-2-0-Certified

Should be fine

Chris

[technobear]

...(i bought QED silver anniversary)...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !

[goraman]

The Music Hall Trio with a music hall 25.2 DAC with Klipsch RB61 speakers.
Best value in new gear for the money.
Used gear is to subjective.Roy Hall gives you the absolute Max. value for the doller or pound.
And the Klipsch at RB61 sounds great with his gear and at 95db.@1 watt. you can fill even the largest rooms.And if you want more bass and 97 DB. the RB 81.a little more money.
good luck in your search,but don't buy before reading reviews on the gear I recomended as I think it's by far the best bang for the buck in new gear and it fits your budget.

SOME GOOD CHOICES

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Iss...chall_trio.htm

OOps to late he bought.


http://www.google.com/products/catal...wAg#ps-sellershttp://www.musichallaudio.com/detail.php?p=68

[John]

I think the Mark Grant cables would suit you better a lot of people on the site really like them and good value for money
Give the Caiman a few weeks to settle in It should be a lot better match for you
Hamish is right play around with speaker postion use the manafacture recomendations as a basic guide and then adjust to suit your room it can make a big difference

[goraman]

www.whitezombieaudio.com
look here !
Very cheap for silver in teflon.

[Will1]

Having weighed up all the pros and cons have decided to stick with what I have for now. I decided against directly demoing the Caiman due to the long burn in time it would never have performed fairly in a side by side test.

For now with money quite tight after buying all the gear I will leave stuff but in a month or so I will advertise on various forums (where QED is more popular!) the cable for sale and then buy the Mark Grant. Simarly I will buy a Caiman give it a full burn in period then sell one of the DACs.

The speaker positioning as made siginificant differences, I checked the manual and have adjusted accordingly.

Hamish. You actually pointed me towards dynaudio no monitor audio. I have never been to sight and sound. I actually bought the V-Dac online and everything else in a local HiFi shop 'Searle Audio' (in South Cumbria) I did not try the RS6's but did try some RS 5's, the RS8 sounded significantly better.

Finally, one question how important is terminating cable I just have cheap brass plugs at the moment on the QED. Does it make any significant difference putting something fancier like airlocks on. Whatever I probably will not do anything as I plan on selling the cable but I am still interested.

Thanks again

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Yeah there is only 3 shops, it's just a coincidence that you bought all product that we stock when we only sell about 5 brands of hifi currently.
Sounds like you have a good plan with you kit, glad you funding better results with tweaking your speakers...
The rs5's are a bit limp - I can see why you would do for the 8's them...

[Ali Tait]

Having weighed up all the pros and cons have decided to stick with what I have for now. I decided against directly demoing the Caiman due to the long burn in time it would never have performed fairly in a side by side test.

For now with money quite tight after buying all the gear I will leave stuff but in a month or so I will advertise on various forums (where QED is more popular!) the cable for sale and then buy the Mark Grant. Simarly I will buy a Caiman give it a full burn in period then sell one of the DACs.

The speaker positioning as made siginificant differences, I checked the manual and have adjusted accordingly.

Hamish. You actually pointed me towards dynaudio no monitor audio. I have never been to sight and sound. I actually bought the V-Dac online and everything else in a local HiFi shop 'Searle Audio' (in South Cumbria) I did not try the RS6's but did try some RS 5's, the RS8 sounded significantly better.

Finally, one question how important is terminating cable I just have cheap brass plugs at the moment on the QED. Does it make any significant difference putting something fancier like airlocks on. Whatever I probably will not do anything as I plan on selling the cable but I am still interested.

Thanks again

Hi,I wouldn't worry about what plugs you are using at the moment,it makes very little if any difference to my ears what plugs are used,as long as they are of basically decent quality.I tried some eichmann plugs which are not cheap,and can't hear any difference to other plugs I've used.Mostly snake oil IMO.

[Themis]

Hi,I wouldn't worry about what plugs you are using at the moment,it makes very little if any difference to my ears what plugs are used,as long as they are of basically decent quality.I tried some eichmann plugs which are not cheap,and can't hear any difference to other plugs I've used.Mostly snake oil IMO.

Same opinion here. Any decent plug will do the work. No plugs is even better.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Same opinion here. Any decent plug will do the work. No plugs is even better.

Same here too!
Especially the last bit!!