On a very tight budget and wondering where my money can best be spent next. I love the Dahlquists but I know they need some real power to do their best. I'd like to find a reciever with pre-amp outs and use a good power amp to drive them. A sub would be nice as well. I listen pretty much exclusivly to CDs, mostly rock and some jazz. The biggest limiting factor I think is the fact that all this is in a corner of a room about 10'x12'.
Thanks for everyone's replies. I recently turned 18 so I updated the title there. Everyone's commenting on how its great that I'm getting started so early. It was my best friend's dad that got me into it. He used to rep for several different speaker companies, mostly car audio, but a few how audio as well. I don't know all the details but I know he spent a while with Blaupunkt, Orion, ADS, and M&K I think. Hes got a nice setup in one room with a pair of M&K bookshelves and a matching sub, and in the other room he has a later model pair of DQ-10's (with the original woofers, never refoamed). He noticed a pair of DQ-10's used at an Ovation here in town (hes friends with the owner) and called me up to see if I was interested, since he knew I was shopping around for a good pair of entry level speakers. Ended up getting them for $300. And here I am now. I wish I had a little more disposable income to fuel my new hobby, but there's too many other drains on that, like the $1200 I recently dropped on a new bass guitar amp and that whole paying for college thing ;-) I'm always anxious to learn more about all of this though, so I'll be roaming around the forums here some, and hopefully I'll pick up some good advice every now and then.
Thats cool, I hadnt thought of using a switch to a different pre amp for the fronts. Two questions though: where would I find one, and how bad would it affect the sound quality.
Good suggestions, but i was looking more for a straight power amp that i could run off a surround reciever (i watch a lot of dvds too and 2 seperate systems is out of the question) so i could power the mains from a good amp and run the other channels off the reciever's amp. I figure i need something in the area of 200w to really make the DQ's sing. The other thing i want to do is tweak the dahlquists, maybe with a new tweeter so i can drop the piezo horn. I was looking at some audiosource amps (audiosource.net), either the 150w stereo model, or two of the 200w mono ones. Ive not heard anything about these, im gonna post somewhere in the forums asking about them. The big selling point to me is there price. Also, does anyone think upgrading my source (a real cd player) would make a difference? Im thinking that it could help, but there are more pressing issues to attend to first. Thanks
