I’m having a bit of a shuffle with my Hi-Fi. My main system is a one box solution (Yamaha RN-602) feeding into some monitor audio silver 6 floor standers. I’m happy with my speakers and absolutely love the feature set of the Yamaha. I’m thinking of moving the Yamaha into the home office/summer house and just using some old Tannoy profile 632’s I have in the loft for now.
This leaves me some options to improve my main room. I have a budget £2000 give or take. I want the same features I have but a system that gives me more in the sound quality department. As the Yamaha is a sub £400 unit, I’m making a bold assumption that spending up to £2000 will give me better sound.
I’ve been thinking about the features I want and have decided that the following are important to me:
Sorry for the long post but I suppose I’m just gathering people’s thoughts on whether I should be investigating other options and whether or not separates will give me better sound than a one box solution. I appreciate the room and music preferences make better sound “subjective" but any advice or personal experience would be appreciated.
Thanks
This leaves me some options to improve my main room. I have a budget £2000 give or take. I want the same features I have but a system that gives me more in the sound quality department. As the Yamaha is a sub £400 unit, I’m making a bold assumption that spending up to £2000 will give me better sound.
I’ve been thinking about the features I want and have decided that the following are important to me:
- 60W – 150W into 8 ohms (I have a long room to fill and the speakers suggest this)
- Phono Stage
- USB A (I have a large 256GB thumbnail USB with my CD’s ripped to a FLAC collection)
- Spotify Connect
- Internet Radio
- DAC
- Analogue input for CD Player
- Toslink input for my Sky Q box
- Tone controls as I prefer a warm sound and always crank up the bass on my amps
- Headphone Socket
- Marantz PM7000N. Does everything I want and a cheaper option at £895 but I’m not sure if this will give me a lot more than I have already.
- Lingdorf TDI-1120. Top of my budget but does everything I want apart from the tone controls.
- NAD M10. Slightly over budget and no phono stage means I’d have to spend even more.
- Naim Atom. Although very well received from a musical aspect, it’s very pricey and lacks the analogue and phono options. I also think 40W won’t drive my floorstanders very well.
Sorry for the long post but I suppose I’m just gathering people’s thoughts on whether I should be investigating other options and whether or not separates will give me better sound than a one box solution. I appreciate the room and music preferences make better sound “subjective" but any advice or personal experience would be appreciated.
Thanks