Dear friends,
Greetings from the North. It feels great to have joined this esteemed forum. I am basically a stereo enthusiast, although I do watch the odd movie, once in a while. I am not an avid gamer as Ive never had time to pursue that hobby. I am a blue-blooded Jaat with (farmers) roots in Haryana but presently located near Udhampur.
My listening preferences include Rock, Country, Folk, Reggae, Sufi and the occassional Heavy Metal, Bhangra, Ghazal or (vintage) Bollywood session.
In the past, I have owned a few commonplace stereo components from mid-fi brands like NAD, Wharfedale, Norge, Sonodyne, Technics, Marantz and Denon etc. Recently, I decided to set some moolah aside to finally treat myself to a REAL hi-fi system. The problem arose that it was mighty tough to part with my last existing system. I realised that I would not be able to go in for the desired hi-fi gear till I became system- less. . . .
So, I sold/gifted the remnants of my entire setup ie cassettes, cassette decks, LPs, EPs, turntables, amplifiers, speakers and subwoofers. (Phew! Sigh!)
So, as far as music goes, all I am now left with is about 1.5 TB of lossless music (mostly FLAC) in a 2 TB hard-sisk, a Macbook, a PC and a netbook.
I want to go in for a hi-fi set up thats big, different, rugged, reliable, sensational and well, nothing short of being a phenomenon in itself. I love huge woofers and horns and yearn to finally own these for setting up in a room measuring about 400-450 sq ft with a 10 ft ceiling. Lucky enough to have been given about thrice that much space to construct my very own bachelors pad on the 1st floor of our farmhouse back home. The rural advantage and all that jazz, guys ....
I may even go in for an infinite baffle setup for the low frequencies, one never knows. But that means, Ill have to mess with the walls, avoidable, in the least. But I am a low frequency freak like most North Indians and dont want to miss out on the high-freq sparkle and mid-range warmth either.
I infer that I must go in for a 3way stereo setup. I am inclined to have an actively and/or passively crossed-over set-up but I wonder where and how I can obtain that and which would be better.
Guys, let your knowledge and experience be my guiding light, please.
Thanks in advance, friends.
PS- Its going to be at least one and a half year year till my pad is ready to set up the stereo in. I need to go in for a once-and-for-all music setup that is, meanwhile versatile enough, just as well, to play in (much) smaller/slightly larger rooms with equal aplomb.
Greetings from the North. It feels great to have joined this esteemed forum. I am basically a stereo enthusiast, although I do watch the odd movie, once in a while. I am not an avid gamer as Ive never had time to pursue that hobby. I am a blue-blooded Jaat with (farmers) roots in Haryana but presently located near Udhampur.
My listening preferences include Rock, Country, Folk, Reggae, Sufi and the occassional Heavy Metal, Bhangra, Ghazal or (vintage) Bollywood session.
In the past, I have owned a few commonplace stereo components from mid-fi brands like NAD, Wharfedale, Norge, Sonodyne, Technics, Marantz and Denon etc. Recently, I decided to set some moolah aside to finally treat myself to a REAL hi-fi system. The problem arose that it was mighty tough to part with my last existing system. I realised that I would not be able to go in for the desired hi-fi gear till I became system- less. . . .
So, I sold/gifted the remnants of my entire setup ie cassettes, cassette decks, LPs, EPs, turntables, amplifiers, speakers and subwoofers. (Phew! Sigh!)
So, as far as music goes, all I am now left with is about 1.5 TB of lossless music (mostly FLAC) in a 2 TB hard-sisk, a Macbook, a PC and a netbook.
I want to go in for a hi-fi set up thats big, different, rugged, reliable, sensational and well, nothing short of being a phenomenon in itself. I love huge woofers and horns and yearn to finally own these for setting up in a room measuring about 400-450 sq ft with a 10 ft ceiling. Lucky enough to have been given about thrice that much space to construct my very own bachelors pad on the 1st floor of our farmhouse back home. The rural advantage and all that jazz, guys ....
I may even go in for an infinite baffle setup for the low frequencies, one never knows. But that means, Ill have to mess with the walls, avoidable, in the least. But I am a low frequency freak like most North Indians and dont want to miss out on the high-freq sparkle and mid-range warmth either.
I infer that I must go in for a 3way stereo setup. I am inclined to have an actively and/or passively crossed-over set-up but I wonder where and how I can obtain that and which would be better.
Guys, let your knowledge and experience be my guiding light, please.
Thanks in advance, friends.
PS- Its going to be at least one and a half year year till my pad is ready to set up the stereo in. I need to go in for a once-and-for-all music setup that is, meanwhile versatile enough, just as well, to play in (much) smaller/slightly larger rooms with equal aplomb.
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