humble beginnings

by silentmobius on Getting Started
the front view
the side view

Description

was looking for an all around system for both music and ht with a budget of about 4,000.

the paradigm studio 60's and anthem 225 are a great match. still need to investigate some cables once funds are available.

the source is a mac mini with apple loseless music piped to a musical fidelity v-dac. i use both vnc and apple remote to control the music.
Read more...

Components Toggle details

    • Musical Fidelity V-DAC
    Nice little DAC for the money
    • Apple Mac Mini
    120 Gb, 2Gb RAM
    • Anthem Anthem Integrated 225
    very clean and smooth treble, great bass, and the headphone amp is particularly good. great system match with the paradigm 60's
    • Paradigm Studio 60 v5
    great treble and midrange.. i listened to wilson sophia 2's side by side with 100's and 60's, and except for the low end, the paradigms were right there with them.
    • Lifatech Silflex Glass Toslink mini
    improved the bass response and immediacy of the DAC.
    • SBooth AyreWave player
    Added at the same time as the Silflex Glass Toslink cables. Not sure which one made the bigger difference, but combined they sound better than my previous system.

Comments 10

Showing all comments by milpai.

View all comments

Sign in to comment
For my Quads the bi-wiring certainly helped. I felt the treble was helped much more than the bass.

milpai

Very simple system indeed. I suggest the Signal Cable Silver Resolution ICs and Speaker Cables. Economical and value for money. Good luck.

milpai

  • 7.2K
  • 10
  •  0
© 2024 Audiogon.com