Perhaps find a good tech to refresh your current gear? Also,what was the size of your old room,vs the new room?
Should I make any changes?
I would like some thoughts about making some equipment changes or just do nothing.
Sadly, I had to substantially reduce the size of my listening room and forever say goodbye to my Apogee Divas, Krell power amps, preamp and the big open sound they produced. I have set up a smaller system consisting of Harbeth SHL5+XD speakers, an Accuphase E-280 integrated amp with top quality cables.
I listen mostly to jazz and classical music on CDs so I retained my Sonic Frontiers “Iris” transport with a Theta Gen 5 DAC from the original system. The overall sound is not as big but very good, but these units are decades old and possibly an equipment upgrade could markedly improve the CD sound.
Here’s my first question: I keep the Sonic Frontiers transport (probably still state-of-the art) and replace the Theta with a current top quality DAC. My second question: Replace both units with a high quality single compact disc player. In either case what, if any, newer units could improve sound of the new smaller system. My price range is 3K to 4K (or more?).
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Aesthetix CD player DAC preferred Signature or better Eclipse level or you could do those upgrades as $ allows. Also very responsive to Tube rolling… Mullard and Amperex. full disclosure I have the DAC version in Signature enjoy the music Apogee are something special, glad you had serious time with them. We have a small pair in our sitting area. A friend has Caliper Signature heavily modified. Fun |
This is probably the appropriate time to move over to streaming. It is replacing physical media as the mainstream source of music with as high a quality or better sound quality. Also for nearly no cost ($12 monthly) you get access to millions of albums. Quboz has well over half a million high resolutions albums. I'd look at this as the perfect opportunity to make the jump. Don't worry about the sunk cost you have in CDs... well, it's a sunk cost and virtually all your albums will be available on streaming. Invest is a streamer only as you would any other components. You want to equal or best your DAC to get the most out of it. For you I would recommend a used Aurender streamer to get the most out of your money. Like a used Aurrender N200. Like many of us, after we got a streamer that sounds as good or better than CD and or vinyl your whole world of music enlarges and you don't look back. |
@thecarpathian 2 minutes can feel like eternity. And "more" is right, you probably need to spend 40K for a decent streamer and DAC.
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