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Stereo:

Marantz CD 6000 OSE
Mission 774 (connected with QED Silver Anniversary Bi Wire)
Atacama Equinox stand
Meridian 203 DAC (recently purchased)

AV:

Toshiba 36ZP18 (36" 100mhz Picture Frame)
Pioneer VSX 912 S Amp (running the stereo at the moment)
Pioneer DV 656A DVD player (connected via QED Component)
Mission M5C Centre (arriving next week)
Mission M5DS Rear Speakers (arriving next week)
Paradigm Sub woofer (far too big really, connected with Ixos connect)
Eltax HP2 Bi Polars (may keep these to enable 7.1 output).

All the speakers connected with QED Silver Anniversary cables.
 
Amp: Sony STR-DE475 (soon to be Denon 3802 I hope! :D)
CD: Sony XE-570
Speakers: Mission m72
Surround speakers: some tiny sony surrounds, hopefully I'll get a better centre speaker soon :)

I'm also going to get a power amp for my front 2 speakers at some stage. probably a NAD of some description.
 
Arcam Alpha 10 Amp
Alpha 8 CD
Alpha 8 Tuner
Monitor Audio Monitor 3 Speakers
Van Der Hul Teatrack Bi-wire cable


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Sony STR-DB780 QS AV Reciever
Sony DVP-NS705V SACD/DVD player
QED Quinex P75 Digital-Coaxial Interconnects
B&W 601S3 Fronts on Atacama Stands
Atlas 2.0+1.1 Bi-Wire Speaker Cable

Other speakers of assorted types soon to be replaced with some more B&W's :)
 
Kenwood KRVF-5050D 5x100w 5.1 Receiver
Phillips CDR 723 cd player (cdrw compat)
Soundstorm Nforce2 Onboard sound on my pc :D
Cambridge Audio (the yellow one, 3rd best in the range.. the better one was £90 and that's silly) interconnect cd-amp (phono)
homemade (but good) interconnect Computer-Amp (coax digital)
Gale XL315-2 BiWire front cables
Gale XL315 single wire rear cable

and my speakers are:

Eltax Liberty 5+ 115w (front L+R)
homemade but awesome box consisting of 2 Eltax full range speakers, and 4 tweet horns, in magnetically shielded MDF box (front center)
Gale Gold Monitor Mk2 (rear L+R)
unknown 250w sub

this was a cheap setup (thanks, julian richer) but out of 9 systems i tried, in the £300-£5000 bracket, it sounded the best to me, so i bought it. it was like £390 all in, with gold plated 4mm banana plugs

EDIT: this is in a 12 by 14 foot room, it sounds awesome, even 2.5 years after i bought it, all the items were oldish lines then, and i've tested it against modern, new lines, and it still sounds better to me
 
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Bit of a boggo little system at the mo, 3x3m room so not quite set up properly! lol... something I'll sort one day, I promise! Anyway, me kit:

AMP: Marantz PM4000
Speakers: Eltax Monitor III's, Acoustic Solutions AV20's (gonna be used as occasional rears) and cambridge audio CSW100's linked to PC which is linked to amp!
CD: Sony CDPXE330
Interconnects: All standard for now (I am proper skint)
Speaker cable: Gale XL315. Not bad budget cable to me. Carries a nice bass weight along it.
Tuner/Tape deck: Provided from me ol' sony mini system, one of the better ones from 1998 or so... MHC RX90.
Vinyl: 2 x Citronic PD45 Ultima direct drive decks. Running thru a Gemini PS540i mixer.
CDJ: Limit CDJ200A Desktop DJ CD player

Think thats it lol

You get the idea:
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Denon 3802 Amplifier

Pioneer 757ai DVD player

Panasonic AE100 LCD projector

Paradigm Servo15 Subwoofer

KEF speakers comprising Q1 fronts, Q9C centre, Q2DS sides and Q8S rears.

Kimber 8TC speaker cables for front three/QED Silver Anniversary sides and rears, mixture of Russ Andrews Powerkords/yello leads and distribution block, various brands of interconnects.

All the above in my dedicated room, AIWA midi system in living room :)
 
HiFi 1:
Cambridge Audio CD4SE
Arcam FMJ A32
Celestion F10 Speakers

AV:
Cambridge Audio 540D
JVC Video
Cambridge Audio 540R
On Digital box
Celestion F30 Floorstanders
Celestion F35 Centre
Celestion F10 Rears
MS208 Sub

HiFi 2:
Cambridge Audio CD5
Cambridge Audio A5
Cambridge Audio T500
MS 902 Speakers
 
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Had mine for about 7 years now so i think its about time to upgrade :D

AV
Yamaha DSP-A592 AV amp
Pioneer DV-626D DVD player
Pioneer CLD-310f Laserdisc Player
JVC Svhs Video recorder
24" JVC widescreen
Telewest Cable Digital
X-box,ps2,gamecube,dreamcast

Music Listening
Numark CDN23s duel cd decks
Gemini XL-500 record deck
Vestex PMC-03A mixer

Speakers
Gale 75 centre
Eltax symphoney 6+ front floorstanders
Warfdale 7.1pro Rears

not bad for my bedroom.....lol
 
TV - Panasonic TX-28PS12
DVD Recorder - Panasonic DMR-E30
DVD Player/Amp/5.1 sub/sat speaker kit - Panasonic SC-HT80

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Only an all-in-one kit at the moment (3 years old now!), but will hopefully be able to upgrade to a seperates setup during the coming year :)

..got 3 other Panasonic portables dotted around the house; with a Panasonic RV32 DVD palyer hooked up to one of them :)
 
Hmm a little bit embarresed to post now seeing some of the kit on here.

Cambridge Audio A500
LG not sure what model it is cost about £180
Mission m72
Atacama Nexus6 stands filled with lead shot.

But i mainly play cd's mp3's through my audigy2 connected to the amp.

not sure what my next logical upgrade is, really want a Roksan Kandy amp
 
Originally posted by englishpremier
Hmm a little bit embarresed to post now seeing some of the kit on here.

Cambridge Audio A500
LG not sure what model it is cost about £180
Mission m72
Atacama Nexus6 stands filled with lead shot.

But i mainly play cd's mp3's through my audigy2 connected to the amp.

not sure what my next logical upgrade is, really want a Roksan Kandy amp
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A couple of points:

- If you love the sound of your system, don't worry about it's cost. After all, everyone had to start somewhere. It's simply a question of time before that elusive amp suddenly becomes affordable.

- I'd like to suggest that that weak point in your system is the use of MP3s. After some interesting debates on another forum, I did some digging around about MP3s to find out just how good they were. Even with higher quality 320bps recordings that I'd cut myself directly from CD using LAME encoding, it still sounded flat and lifeless when compared to the original CD. So the more common 128bps recordings that are on the net are likely to be pretty damn ropey. If you can, find yourself a decent CD player or DAC then get some CDs, after all, they're quite cheap now.
 
my setup:

Front speakers: Accoustic Energy AE109 cherry floorstanders
Centre speaker: Mordaunt Short 304
Rear speakers: Eltax beech HT2BP Bi-Polars
AV Amp: Yamaha HTR5640
DVD player: Sony NS900V (SACD/DVD)
Television: Panasonic TX-28PS12
 
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