Seek your advice for a system with 30K budget

I would like to replace my existing system with 30K-35K. I mainly use the system to listen music ~50% classics (symphonies, piano recital, concerto), ~40% pop and ~10% movie or DVD watching. I also connect DVDplayer /DVD Recorder to the system for movie watching but I don't need a AV amp.

I am looking for a traditional 2.0 system with simple connectivity, i.e. less wiring. With the buget, I would like to buy an Integrated Amp, a pair of speaker and a CD player. My current system has been over 10 years old, which is Copland CSA-14, Denon CD Player and Monitor Audio MA-10 speaker.


My listening environment is living and dining room togather is ~250 feet and the best position from the speaker is about 10 feet depth, i.e. the sofa facing the speaker. The room is in rectangular shape. Dining room is on left hand side and there is windows on right hand side. There is no partitioning between dining and living room.


Thank for your help and advice in advance.

First of all, you should spread the money into 3 parts. I think you should spend 50% of the total amount on speaker. The speaker is the most important part of the system. The remaining balance equally spends on the CD player and Amp. If you have no special preference, I suggest as follow. The sound will be neutral. But you should make the comparison of different brands with same money.

Speaker : ATC, Dynaudio, Dali, KEF, B&W
Amp : UK or USA -eg MF
CD player : UK or Japan -eg MF, Maraza
                                                                        sam 8/11/07

Hi Ashura,


You should spend more money on CD Player first second Amplifier, third speaker, then cables for connection.... there is the saying rubbish in rubbish out, no good spending too much money on speaker if the CD player cannot extract all the information out of your Cd.

remember Source,amplification,output(speaker)

kkwan

My suggestion is to listen different type of speaker and see which one you like the most. You can put 60-70% of your budget in the speaker.

After choosing the speaker, or the sound which suits you, select the amp and CD player. Trust me, the difference between amp and CD player is almost neligible. Nowadays we use CD as audio source, the quality from CD is already very high compare to the era using tape or LP.