Music Hall is good, reasonably priced stuff. A visit to a Music Hall room at a trade show is always a pleasant experience. Music Hall is part of an excellent family of equipment manufacturers ... EPOS, Creek, Shanling. Roy Hall is a hoot, as well. If your friend stopped right here and did not upgrade the electronics any further, he would have equipment to enjoy his music for a long time. His Music Hall equipment would also pair up well with better speakers, if he were so inclined.
The Onkyo 8255 is an ok 2 channel receiver, nothing great ... just ok. It is not in the MH's class. He was probably using the tone controls pretty hard. There is no direct function to my knowledge.
I live with speakers on bookshelves. It's certainly not ideal. Then again, if there are kids or pets under foot, bookshelves may be one of the few workable solutions.
I owned the CD 25 for a number of years and felt that it performed very well.
Rich
The Onkyo 8255 is an ok 2 channel receiver, nothing great ... just ok. It is not in the MH's class. He was probably using the tone controls pretty hard. There is no direct function to my knowledge.
I live with speakers on bookshelves. It's certainly not ideal. Then again, if there are kids or pets under foot, bookshelves may be one of the few workable solutions.
I owned the CD 25 for a number of years and felt that it performed very well.
Rich