Music Lover looking for setup First Audio System Setup

[asliarun]

AVRs (entry to mid level) have very poor quality pre-outs. I would recommend an integrated any day than an AVR+ power amp in the same price point. Ofcourse, there could be exceptions.

Hi Santy,

Yes. I think your point is valid if one is buying everything from scratch. I only mentioned this option as OP already has a Marantz AVR. Within OP's budget, he can get, for example, a fairly good power amp for 50k, but I think he will be hard pressed to find a quality integrated for 50k. He will have to spend the entire budget to get something like Yamaha AS-2000 - or a similar integrated that can drive most speakers.

I just find the careful pairing of amps and speakers a big mental hassle. An amp is an amp is an amp. It's main purpose is to drive speakers with authority and provide clean, undistorted, channel separated amplified sound. I feel that this pairing game only works because amps are underpowered and/or certain speakers are more demanding than others (impedance dips and phase changes). If you have an amp with say, 150-200 watts of power and with enough capacitance, most of these issues are taken away from the equation. But to get a decent integrated amp with these specs really skyrockets your budget. Hence, my power amp suggestion.

Again, just my two cents. I myself switched over to a 80 watt integrated (from a more powerful but lesser quality amp) recently in pursuit of better quality sound

Edit: Another thing: I personally feel that AVRs let themselves down because of their power amp section, not (as much) because of their preamp section. Sure, a dedicated DAC and PC source will beat an AVR, but at what budget? With a budget of 1.5L for an entire system, and with an existing AVR, I still feel that the biggest bang for the buck will be to get quality amplification first. The AVR will still let OP use its networking/streaming features etc. And AVRs actually handle low bitrate formats quite well.

I know most people would disagree with me, but I feel that a purist approach is well and good, but only when budget is not a factor at all. Unfortunately, most of us are budget constrained, and a purist approach can actually result in a sub-optimal system - with only the promise of an ephemeral future when all components have been upgraded to the required levels.

 

[pawan2012]

Hello Colleagues,

I bought Symphonic Line RG 14 Edition Integrated Amplifier (Germany) along with Ascendos C-8-C, with Naim V! Series DAC (England) and another DAC from Lindemann (Germany) along with Glory cables from UK.

It needs fine tuning i think, so many wires have confused me how to connect the Spade Speaker Cables to Bi wires of C8C speakers.

Right now i connected the C8C speakers to my Marantz SR5006, and it sounds amazing.

I'll update further as and when any changes take place.

Finally thanks for all of the seniors here for helping me, though i felt more confused with new names of brands thrown at me, but like everyone said Listen and then choose, Trust your ears,, i tried doing that, thanks again

 

[captrajesh]

Hi Pawan, too bad I couldn't meet you when you were visiting Trivandrum.

OMG, that is some serious gear that you bought. But one thing that is confusing me is, if you have a amp as good as Symphonic Line, why are you still using the SR5006! You are seriously missing some quality music I bet.

Is it because you said you are confused on how to connect the spades of the speaker cable to biwire terminals of the C8C speakers? But then how did you connect them to the SR5006? Some pics would help us in advising you on the issue.

 

[pawan2012]

Hi, Rajesh, Thanks for your kind words,

Regarding meeting, i was just starting up, so wanted to meet and learn more from everyone around, luckily found some of my own Airline Colleagues, who were great music lover themselves, but pls don't worry we fly to Trivndrum quiet often, i"ll see you one of the days.

i had a big bundle of Belden Wires so i connected them with two wires each for my speaker on each side, they sound amazing, and with the luxury of wirelessly listening music, i am getting more and more lazy.


I couldn't figure out what to do with the four wires that needs to be connected to the Speaker as it is called a spade speaker cables.

There are wires of four different colours
1. Red
2. Green
3. Blue
4. White.
Now two of these have red colour strap on the connectors and two have blue colour straps, but again there are two small straps RED and BLUE in colour that are different from the connecting wires to their respected sleeve.

i"ll post a picture to explain further Thx.
Pawan