Thad E Ginathom
Well-Known Member
Hi,
Settled in Chennai for nearly five years, courtesy of my local wife.
Music taste is largely carnatic classical, but does not exclude an occasional burst of the Grateful Dead!
For some reason, I find I actually don't listen to music much in the house these days, but when I do, this is what I listen to it on:
Castle Severn speakers (British)
Cyrus IIIi amp (British)
Marantz CD-67 CD
Old Sony tape deck.
I did have a Cyrus CD too, but (so much for Brit-built gear!) it broke down and was expensive to repair; the Marantz is old, wasn't expensive, but... fine.
My favourite is the Cyrus amp. It was a huge upgrade to the thing (forgotten) I had before, and my personal lesson in how 50watts per channel can be infinitely superior to 150! Only thing is, as age continues to affect my hearing, I begin to wish that it did have a tone control!
The amp and speakers were at the lower end of hi-fi expensive --- but both were ex-demo deals with as much as 50% off.
There is a RME card in my PC. When it was close to the hifi and all wired up, it gave some excellent sound, even better than hifi CD unit. Now I have a SqueezeBox Duet, infinitely more expensive than a piece of wire, and probably not as good quality, but an interesting gadget. Only getting occasional use so far.
Hoping all this stuff survives the Chennai humidity as, now retired, if it has to be replaced, it certainly won't be up-graded!
Settled in Chennai for nearly five years, courtesy of my local wife.
Music taste is largely carnatic classical, but does not exclude an occasional burst of the Grateful Dead!
For some reason, I find I actually don't listen to music much in the house these days, but when I do, this is what I listen to it on:
Castle Severn speakers (British)
Cyrus IIIi amp (British)
Marantz CD-67 CD
Old Sony tape deck.
I did have a Cyrus CD too, but (so much for Brit-built gear!) it broke down and was expensive to repair; the Marantz is old, wasn't expensive, but... fine.
My favourite is the Cyrus amp. It was a huge upgrade to the thing (forgotten) I had before, and my personal lesson in how 50watts per channel can be infinitely superior to 150! Only thing is, as age continues to affect my hearing, I begin to wish that it did have a tone control!
The amp and speakers were at the lower end of hi-fi expensive --- but both were ex-demo deals with as much as 50% off.
There is a RME card in my PC. When it was close to the hifi and all wired up, it gave some excellent sound, even better than hifi CD unit. Now I have a SqueezeBox Duet, infinitely more expensive than a piece of wire, and probably not as good quality, but an interesting gadget. Only getting occasional use so far.
Hoping all this stuff survives the Chennai humidity as, now retired, if it has to be replaced, it certainly won't be up-graded!
!
