I'm not a serious audiophile. But when I listen to music, I want to close my eyes and feel like im sitting right at the stage. for movies, I want a complete surround sound reality, nothing that sounds fake. I dont like high decible in your face music, when turned down your ears need to time to readjust.
this is how my story started
at age 16. I bought my first receiver: sherwood with Jenson speakers from abc warehouse.
at age 18 I purchased an onkyo integra with klipsch speakers, m&k 12" push/pull sub. The klipsch were just too ear piercing.
at age 21 (I think) I purchased my 1st seperates, Parasound amps, a total of 4 and mirage m5's was able to trade in withing the 1st year for a full refund as long as you spend twice as much, so I saved money and upgraded to mirage m3's, and then m1's. till this day I would swear those were the best sounding speakers I owned. they were monsters but sounded perfect.
at age 25 or so. I purchased a Denon AVR4800 and B&W cdm 7's, cdm center, lm rears. 1 Receiver to do everything.
at age 35 I purchased my current B&W 802ds, HTM2d, SCM1 with Rotel rmb 1090, 1095, 1068, they wanted another $400 for a receiver.
I sold my Rotel amps, searched and read reviews, my other post under B&W will inform you as to what I auditioned. And now im back to 2 pieces Denon poa-a1hdci, and avp-a1hdci which includes a tuner (classe tuner cost $400) and I have more options than I would with the classe ssp800. The classe has a better look to it, but under a blind test. the denon won. I only had an ssp600 to compare. and yes the denons are way cheaper than $7000 if you look around. Im also using rockefeller speaker cable and monster rca, thinking of switching over to balanced. my friends think im nuts for spending $1,000 on cables.I have seen HDMI cables from $30.00 - $300.00 are you really going to hear the difference. I would think the $100 cable would be sufficient.
my friend will pay top price on everything so he can gloat. It's his money if he wants to waste it. well, enough about me im 37 now, just wanted to offer some background and introduce myself.
this is how my story started
at age 16. I bought my first receiver: sherwood with Jenson speakers from abc warehouse.
at age 18 I purchased an onkyo integra with klipsch speakers, m&k 12" push/pull sub. The klipsch were just too ear piercing.
at age 21 (I think) I purchased my 1st seperates, Parasound amps, a total of 4 and mirage m5's was able to trade in withing the 1st year for a full refund as long as you spend twice as much, so I saved money and upgraded to mirage m3's, and then m1's. till this day I would swear those were the best sounding speakers I owned. they were monsters but sounded perfect.
at age 25 or so. I purchased a Denon AVR4800 and B&W cdm 7's, cdm center, lm rears. 1 Receiver to do everything.
at age 35 I purchased my current B&W 802ds, HTM2d, SCM1 with Rotel rmb 1090, 1095, 1068, they wanted another $400 for a receiver.
I sold my Rotel amps, searched and read reviews, my other post under B&W will inform you as to what I auditioned. And now im back to 2 pieces Denon poa-a1hdci, and avp-a1hdci which includes a tuner (classe tuner cost $400) and I have more options than I would with the classe ssp800. The classe has a better look to it, but under a blind test. the denon won. I only had an ssp600 to compare. and yes the denons are way cheaper than $7000 if you look around. Im also using rockefeller speaker cable and monster rca, thinking of switching over to balanced. my friends think im nuts for spending $1,000 on cables.I have seen HDMI cables from $30.00 - $300.00 are you really going to hear the difference. I would think the $100 cable would be sufficient.
my friend will pay top price on everything so he can gloat. It's his money if he wants to waste it. well, enough about me im 37 now, just wanted to offer some background and introduce myself.
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