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Going to get a new sound system, don't know road I should go down, new HI-FI type thing, i-pod docking station, streaming unit? Got £500 - £600 to spend.
Who's got what?
What do you recommend?

Depends what you want to play on it Keef.
CDs, them old black plastic things, em pee 3s???

What are you starting with (speakers amp etc.?)

Pista wrote:Depends what you want to play on it Keef.
CDs, them old black plastic things, em pee 3s???

What are you starting with (speakers amp etc.?)

Starting from scratch Steve, like the idea of a streaming thing, put all my CD's on to the memory and play in different rooms.
I can't download from interwb on account of our pish dial up connection and can't do much research
I've still got a record deck so'll not need another.
I've got a sony MP3 & not an i-pod but don't mind getting an i-pod & a docking station if it's the best option.

scotty wrote:

Pista wrote:Depends what you want to play on it Keef.
CDs, them old black plastic things, em pee 3s???

What are you starting with (speakers amp etc.?)

Starting from scratch Steve, like the idea of a streaming thing, put all my CD's on to the memory and play in different rooms.
I can't download from interwb on account of our pish dial up connection and can't do much research
I've still got a record deck so'll not need another.
I've got a sony MP3 & not an i-pod but don't mind getting an i-pod & a docking station if it's the best option.

we use this at work-put all the music on the hard drive and sonos does the rest!!

http://www.sonos.com/Default.aspx?rdr=t ... gType=1033

have you considered one of these?

actually, the sonos is great for multi room set ups
Plays just about anything you chuck in it too.

The Sonos set up we have at work is for the house, but we use it in the restaurant I work at-it is on for 12-14 hours a day and we have different music for 3 seperate rooms--works a dream
[apart from the fact the actual music is crap although I did manage to put Nouvelle Vague's version of Marian on it----great to eat lunch to!!!!!!!]

sam1 wrote:... although I did manage to put Nouvelle Vague's version of Marian on it----great to eat lunch to!!!!!!!]

You looking to get stabbed?

Pista wrote:

sam1 wrote:... although I did manage to put Nouvelle Vague's version of Marian on it----great to eat lunch to!!!!!!!]

You looking to get stabbed?

Whilst living in Glasgow----probably at some point

Sonos for 2 rooms looks like it'll be nearly £800, a bit to steep I'm afraid , that sort of thing looks find though.

Richer Sounds will sort you out.

Amp with two sets of speaker outputs: £150
2 sets of speakers: You can probably get decent-ish ones for £60-£75 per pair, call it £150
Hook your mp3 player up to the amp with a headphones-to-2RCA cable: £10
Total: £310.

Edit: Oh I forgot: Chuck in maybe ten to 20 quid for speaker wire.

And you have plenty of inputs left on the amp for any other sound equipment you may already have. You can hook a peecee up to an input and play all your mp3s from that.

World is your oyster.

Aye! What the Feind says is similar to what I have...except like you I have a Sony Walkman mp3 player that I keep on leaving in the car...hadn't thought about hooking up the Pooter to the amp...nice one

Squeezebox is good alternative to Sonos, much cheaper.

See the Solid State Logic website for prices.

Shouldn't cost much above a tenner.

...for one potmeter

IZ.

I could spend several hours annoying the crap out of you asking "and what does that one do?" over and over and over again.

i think that he just wants to listen the music not record it.

markfiend wrote:I could spend several hours annoying the crap out of you asking "and what does that one do?" over and over and over again.

Basically 96 strips do quite the same

IZ.

Bartek wrote:i think that he just wants to listen the music not record it.

Oh but you can do that too, among other stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPNlOrjsuQ

IZ.

nope, Iz just watches music looking for 'compression crime'

markfiend wrote:I could spend several hours annoying the crap out of you asking "and what does that one do?" over and over and over again.

and the sad thing is he would probably know.......


runs away

Don't forget that this is Keef. Nothing too technical now folks.

in which case:

How to turn an 8-track into a speaker dock

I should get me one of them, I still have 8-tracks

Ta