I hope I made good choices with new gear. Comments?
(Subtitled: Rabbit holes can run deep)
Synergy and such. It always worries me as I don’t have time for much trial and error.
Some of this appears in a recent thread elsewhere but it was getting off topic.
This all started out by me wanting a new TV. So I bought an LG 77" C5 OLED model. Well, then I decided I might as well redo the room it’s going in so that’s almost done.
Gee, then I figured I need a new DVD player, a 4K one. I bought a Panasonic DP-UB820-K for that. It reads like it’s a pretty good unit for picture and sound. Of course with the long cable run from the TV to the rack holding the audio gear and DVD player, I would need a 30’ or so optical HDMI cable. Also long audio cables from the TV to the rack.
My main audio system is also in the same room the TV is in. It’s mostly equipment I bought 36 years ago, save for the CD players. The amps are getting old and nobody around here works on them. So I purchased a pair of Cambridge Audio Edge M monoblocks. I figured I would use my old Harmon Kardon Citation 25 preamp with them. It’s compatible and still works. Nah, I ordered a Parasound Halo JC 2BP preamplifier today. Hey, those new components have XLR inputs and outputs! I bought some Audioquest Red River XLR cables for that.
No way am I going to just plug all of this stuff into wall outlets. I bought a pair of APC BR1500MS2 uninterruptible power supplies to protect against power surges and brownouts. These do not provide enough battery power to run for any length of time but we have an emergency standby generator that kicks in in less than 10 seconds so it’s not an issue.
With all the new gear, I need someplace comfortable to sit. I found a good set of wing chairs on sale on the ’net. Also got a nice small narrow table to put between them to hold remotes and a drink. My new gear also needs a nice place to sit so I also purchased a Salamander Designs rack for it.
New and much longer SP6 speaker cables are currently on the burn-in machine at Morrow Audio.
All of this started with wanting a new TV and it just kept going, LOL! Oh well. Did I miss anything? Did I get anything that’s not going to work well together? I did as much research as I could and it was quite a bit. Ya never know though.
Any and all input is greatly appreciated! Thank you all.
it will be interesting to compare the two pair of JBL's with your new gear. I would probably prefer the pair that has the better highs and mids, but that's just me. You may find that the newer JBL's have good low frequencies especially when driven by your new monoblocks. Have fun with it. That's the best part of this hobby. |
parkergetdean- AI is like the news. You read it and filter out the bias and the BS. Somewhere in there might be some useful information. sls883- I'll definitely experiment with the speakers I have. I've owned them for about 36 years so I'm certainly used to them. New ones someday? Maybe. The CD player will be next but it's a while off. I've spent enough for now. rvpiano- AI has some fluff but agreed, it can still be useful. Enjoyment is what it's all about! |
@toddsyr I work with AI in my day job, I have high hopes for it. But for audio: it reads the largely BS written about hifi, from people selling stuff and making up stuff. It can’t improve the quality of that crap, because it can’t distinguish between fact based or made up. It has no ears, no tools to validate what it spits out. Now if people will write articles about audio with the help of AI, the real clusterf*k will begin, self-propelling non-sense. Humanity has to become really smart to use AI properly. At this moment in time AI makes us remarkably dumber by the day. |
