Well, I was keeping out of this, but may have something current to contribute.
I used to manage stores for a high-end audio retailer way back in the
late '70s in the early '80s. Thus, my expertise is now, to be polite,
antique or, to be blunt, useless. So, I'll speak as a fellow
consumer.
When I left the business, I bought a complete system including an NAD
receiver. It performed very well until last year when the left
channel started to fade. The tuner also had a bit of drift. $125
worth of service later it was, as the tech put it, "Ready for another
quarter century of music." Through that experience, I learned that
NAD had been purchased by another company that almost drove it into
the ground and soiled its previously fine reputation. That may
explain the "quality problems" to which Steve alludes. Recently, the
original owner/designer bought it back and restored quality and
reliability to the line (according to the service tech).
FWIW/ScottGee1
On 8/24/06, Steve Dropkin <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, August 24, 2006 9:20 am, Ralf Loi wrote:
>
> > For the amplifier I search a good one with some 50W rms per channel, and
> > for the cd player I search something that preferably don't have problems
> > with light scrathes on the cd - mine currently have while the cd of the
> > computer don't.
> > I usually listen both classical music and rock.
>
> It would help us to have an idea of what you think is a reasonable amount
> of money to spend on this. 300 Euros? 500? 1000? We can always tell you
> that whatever amount you have in mind is not nearly enough :-) It's
> possible to spend thousands of Euros on just one power amplifier (times
> two for stereo). Also, do you have any plans to listen to either movies or
> some of the newer multiple-channel formats like SACD or DVD-A? And since
> you say "amplifier", do you not want to listen to radio at all through
> this system?
>
> Brands with which I have had good success now and in the past are
> Harman/Kardon and Onkyo. If you have more to spend, you could look at
> Rotel, or Sony's ES line (not so much their regular line), or NAD (though
> NAD sometimes suffers some quality problems). If you're comfortable buying
> over the Internet on the recommendation of customers, Outlaw Audio (
> http://www.outlawaudio.com ) may be worth considering (the few people I
> know with Outlaw equipment like it very much).
>
> Have fun shopping! I would love to buy some new audio equipment, but I
> have camera equipment I want to buy! :-)
>
> Steve
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