Castle Knight 3 speakers - first thoughts

The Zensor 1 are great for the money. So difficult not to spend more though as the gains are very noticeable. I ended up with mentor menuets which are tiny but superb!
 
TALON1973 said:
Didn't realise Rega did speakers . I'll take a Turntable off them anyday and amps are pretty damn good.
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Me either until I heard them :D

For some reason I still felt the need to search for reviews on them even after I'd heard them, and enjoyed them move then other 5 star reviewed speakers. Was for some reason relieved to find them well reviewed. :p

Got an email off the shop fixing the cyrus amp. Sent me a video of it all working. Saying how he has serviced it at the same time. Will be with me Friday. I'll stick a pic on when it's all setup in the finished room.
 
Final update

Amp arrived on Friday as promised. All plugged in a everything now working fantastically. Spent the weekend bedding in the new speakers. Had to get them in gloss black instead of white as they are no longer available in that finish. Shame, I really liked them in white.

Overall im really happy with the setup. The Squeezbox is really simple to use. It doesn't sound as nice at the Musical Fidelity M1 Clic they let me play with when I was demoing the speakers, but then thats to be expected given the massive price difference. There still fetching around £600-£700 secondhand so ill have to make do with what I have for now. Still sounds very nice. :cool:









 
Can you summarise all the hifi components?
Its a nice change to see someone go for an audiophile setup as opposed to people buying compact soundbars (which are laughable - how they took off, I will never know).

My cats recently ripped through my Mission floor standers, so I might be in the market to replace them. For the time being I've put the floor standers in my bedroom and brought the book shelf speakers from the bedroom, into the lounge.

BTW, have you got a subwoofer?

I use a subwoofer in my lounge and I have to say that I'm not missing any bass (by switching the floor standers with bookshelf speakers, because the bass is provided by the sub woofer). So, rather than buying floor standers, I may buy some bookshelf speakers. I'm looking at the Dali Zensor 1.
 
  • Source - Squeezebox classic V3
  • Amp - Cyrus 6a
  • Speakers - Rega RS1
  • Speaker Stands - Mission Stancette
  • Cables - Mark Grant interconnect, Van Damn studio 2.5

Havent got a sub, the room is to small, it would just be swamped with bass. Plus the little Rega's have surprisingly good bass. I have a BK Monolith in my lounge for when I need that proper bass fix :cool:
 
So much for final update. Cyrus is currently boxed up and will be going back in the morning. I was listening to it a couple of days ago and it just switched itself off. Figured I must have knocked the remote or something, switched it back on, was fine again. 30 mins later same again. Arghhhh! Did this 7 times in 2 hours. I left it on all night and it was fine. Then out of the blue it did it again. Some very intermittent fault that I can't put up with. Seller was good about it. Refunded me instantly and arranged pickup by courier.

My cyrus days are over. I'm off to a shop tomorrow to pick up a replacement. One that's hopefully a bit more reliable.
 
Just back with new amp. Have to say it completely smashes the Cyrus 6 sound quality wise. So impressed with it. My first bit of Naim kit and im more then a little impressed.

Its a Naim Nait 5i - 2

 
Nice amp! How much did you pay for it if you don't mind me asking? I love how this has gone from small speaker upgrade to new system...we have all been there haha
 
He wanted £475, which in fairness is a very good price considering its the i-2, and its immaculate. But he was moving house and in a bit of a rush to get rid of some of his gear. Got him down to £410.
 
Yep bottom of the range as far as Naim stuff goes. Been listening to it pretty much non stop since I got it. Can't get over just how good it sounds. I abandoned hifi a few years ago when I switched solely to focus on av. Now I have my own house and a spare room I get the best of both worlds.

The sqeezebox is the weakest link in the system right now. It will do for a while. Got a little girl due to arrive in 10 weeks so other things to spend my cash on. I'll keep one eye open for any deals around the musical fidelity clic player. That really was a lovely bit of kit.
 
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