What are your current speakers? You may well be able to make a nice improvement in your main room system for a lot less than $2K. Many people swear by Totem speakers with Rega electronics, and Rega's own speakers are excellent. Second-hand Totem Arros or Sttafs or Rega RS3s or RS5s would all be well under your budget.
Which direction should I go?
I'm looking to upgrade my modest rig, but am undecided on which way to go. Here's my situation: I've got a lot of expenses currently, so I have decided to hold off on the speaker purchase I was contemplating (3-5k range). Alternatively, there here are two directions I could go:
Option 1: Buy reasonably priced towers (~2k or less) and hook them into our main family room system. Source there is Cambridge 640C v2, with a Rega Mira integrated.
Option 2: Buy either towers or nice bookshelf model and use them in the study. In there I have a headphone rig with a Squeezebox and a some headphone amps (one of which is a MF X-CAN V8) that I could use as a line stage. I'd need an amp of course, and I would seek out a tube model. I would even consider going low power SET in this scenario, since it is a smaller (but not small) room.
Which is more fun now? I feel like I could have a lot of flexibility with option 2.
Thanks in advance for any input.
Option 1: Buy reasonably priced towers (~2k or less) and hook them into our main family room system. Source there is Cambridge 640C v2, with a Rega Mira integrated.
Option 2: Buy either towers or nice bookshelf model and use them in the study. In there I have a headphone rig with a Squeezebox and a some headphone amps (one of which is a MF X-CAN V8) that I could use as a line stage. I'd need an amp of course, and I would seek out a tube model. I would even consider going low power SET in this scenario, since it is a smaller (but not small) room.
Which is more fun now? I feel like I could have a lot of flexibility with option 2.
Thanks in advance for any input.