stuartharrison
Novice Member
Hi - big birthday coming up and i have a modest budget for a new system (up to about £1k)
Ive done lots of googling and had lots of items on "about to order" but what ive settled on, and orders, so far are:
Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 (seems like for an old speaker still a bargain at about £100)
Sony PS-LX310BT - im starting back onto the vinyl route and this seems to get very good reviews for the money (£180) and included bluetooth (much of my listening will be on headphones.
This is where i then got really lost. Ive been looking down the route of hybrid tube amps - initially the chinese imports such as Nobsound (I have one of their micro amps in the kitchen) and then started looking at the Blue Aura V40.
This looks very pretty and has a matching turntable and speakers so was about to return all of the above for this but .... then found out that the amp no longer actually matches the speakers or turntable (visually) so am not sure whether to continue down that route for the full package or just the amp.
So my question is this - tube amps all seem to be rates as quite low powered. Is this actually an indication of volume these days ? Ive heard talk of sensitivity rather than anything else. The unit will be in my study so i want something with reasonable but not crazy power. Will a budget tube amp give me this ? Have i bought the wrong speakers for this approach ?? ideally i wanted something that looked good as well as sounding good. i have a big Sony AV Amp downstairs and whilst it sounds great is just a black block
Ive done lots of googling and had lots of items on "about to order" but what ive settled on, and orders, so far are:
Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 (seems like for an old speaker still a bargain at about £100)
Sony PS-LX310BT - im starting back onto the vinyl route and this seems to get very good reviews for the money (£180) and included bluetooth (much of my listening will be on headphones.
This is where i then got really lost. Ive been looking down the route of hybrid tube amps - initially the chinese imports such as Nobsound (I have one of their micro amps in the kitchen) and then started looking at the Blue Aura V40.
This looks very pretty and has a matching turntable and speakers so was about to return all of the above for this but .... then found out that the amp no longer actually matches the speakers or turntable (visually) so am not sure whether to continue down that route for the full package or just the amp.
So my question is this - tube amps all seem to be rates as quite low powered. Is this actually an indication of volume these days ? Ive heard talk of sensitivity rather than anything else. The unit will be in my study so i want something with reasonable but not crazy power. Will a budget tube amp give me this ? Have i bought the wrong speakers for this approach ?? ideally i wanted something that looked good as well as sounding good. i have a big Sony AV Amp downstairs and whilst it sounds great is just a black block