Soldato
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Hey everyone,
I still haven't got around to getting a CD Player separate for my hi-fi setup - Heybrook HB150 Speakers and a NAD C320BEE amplifier. I have been a long time away from these circles so was really asking for an update based on my query, as well as what's hot in old stock and new stock of CD Player separates.
I have always had my computer plugged into my amplifier - all right for games but sometimes I just want to sit back and listen to music without having to power on my PC.
I don't yet have a budget in mind, but I do not want to spend more than £150 on a CD Player (as I spent £179 on my amplifier, £260 on my speakers and matching the amplifier with a very expensive CD Player may not do any favours), perhaps someone with more experience can enlighten me and tell me if I may be mistaken. I can go £50 over if I find the right one.
I will gladly look at the second hand market if this suits my budget more and although I would prefer to match my NAD badged amplifier with another NAD badged CD Player, I am not too fussed about looks, I am more bothered with sound.
I do not intend to replace my amplifier or speakers at all - as both have served me well and although I don't audibly, know any better, I don't have the funds, nor can see the sense in replacing these components as they are working for me so well.
I recently queried my hi-fi dealers - Audiofile Objective and they told me their CD Players start at £60 and it's only around 1 hours drive each way - so I could spend a few hours looking at their equipment - but where should I start?
Finally, instead of resurrecting the year old thread I made about my Heybrook speakers being faulty, I will just bolt it on here - the resistor went on the offending speaker (the series resistor connects between the crossover and the brown wire to the tweeter).
After soldering in a replacement 1ohm 0.6w resistor, my sound is very good - I purchased a pair of matching 8ohm tweeters (by this time I already took apart one of the older 6ohm tweeter units out of curiousity, so that couldn't be replaced) and I cannot notice any real change in the quality of the treble coming from my speakers and now they can be run in over the next few months).
I could not find any 6ohm units anywhere - at all. Even after months of searching and querying a number of people and businesses who supplied SEAS/Seasonic made tweeters. So for the sake of a good fitment and matching standard Heybrook HB150s, I went for the 8ohm tweeters. Visually they look identically like the 6ohm units - just a different ohm rating.
So it was the resistor - not as complicated as the crossover or the tweeter - but I am glad I found out. I also recycled my broken interconnect by cutting it in two, and creating two new interconnects out of it - one will become a CD-Player to amplifier interconnect and the other is serving well as my PC to amplifier interconnect, after soldering on new gold plated phono plugs.
Thanks,
David
I still haven't got around to getting a CD Player separate for my hi-fi setup - Heybrook HB150 Speakers and a NAD C320BEE amplifier. I have been a long time away from these circles so was really asking for an update based on my query, as well as what's hot in old stock and new stock of CD Player separates.
I have always had my computer plugged into my amplifier - all right for games but sometimes I just want to sit back and listen to music without having to power on my PC.
I don't yet have a budget in mind, but I do not want to spend more than £150 on a CD Player (as I spent £179 on my amplifier, £260 on my speakers and matching the amplifier with a very expensive CD Player may not do any favours), perhaps someone with more experience can enlighten me and tell me if I may be mistaken. I can go £50 over if I find the right one.
I will gladly look at the second hand market if this suits my budget more and although I would prefer to match my NAD badged amplifier with another NAD badged CD Player, I am not too fussed about looks, I am more bothered with sound.
I do not intend to replace my amplifier or speakers at all - as both have served me well and although I don't audibly, know any better, I don't have the funds, nor can see the sense in replacing these components as they are working for me so well.
I recently queried my hi-fi dealers - Audiofile Objective and they told me their CD Players start at £60 and it's only around 1 hours drive each way - so I could spend a few hours looking at their equipment - but where should I start?
Finally, instead of resurrecting the year old thread I made about my Heybrook speakers being faulty, I will just bolt it on here - the resistor went on the offending speaker (the series resistor connects between the crossover and the brown wire to the tweeter).
After soldering in a replacement 1ohm 0.6w resistor, my sound is very good - I purchased a pair of matching 8ohm tweeters (by this time I already took apart one of the older 6ohm tweeter units out of curiousity, so that couldn't be replaced) and I cannot notice any real change in the quality of the treble coming from my speakers and now they can be run in over the next few months).
I could not find any 6ohm units anywhere - at all. Even after months of searching and querying a number of people and businesses who supplied SEAS/Seasonic made tweeters. So for the sake of a good fitment and matching standard Heybrook HB150s, I went for the 8ohm tweeters. Visually they look identically like the 6ohm units - just a different ohm rating.
So it was the resistor - not as complicated as the crossover or the tweeter - but I am glad I found out. I also recycled my broken interconnect by cutting it in two, and creating two new interconnects out of it - one will become a CD-Player to amplifier interconnect and the other is serving well as my PC to amplifier interconnect, after soldering on new gold plated phono plugs.
Thanks,
David
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