That Marantz cd player can be improved upon greatly. I wouldn’t touch anything else until you get the source game up.
What is your budget for the improvements? I would recommend a good dac to use with the marantz as a transport. Or ditch the marantz altogether - find a used Aufiolab cd transport and pair it with a nice dac. You will be amazed by the upgrade in sound quality.
Suggestions on improvement
I'm 78 with age related hearing decline.My current system which I do enjoy is comprised of a Marantz CD cd 60006,Technics integrated SUG700,Canton stand mounted 9k reference speakers, and two SVS SB1000 pro subs, Subs interconnects are SVS. Stand mounted are connected by marker cables on upper frequencies and monster cables Powerline 2 for mids and bass.
Speakers are placed 8 ft apart the listening position is also 8 ft.The room is untouchable,that is to say wife has fixed my location,hey no smirks, I know where my beard is buttered.The room has vaulted ceiling 14 ft(at sitting position),has one open sidewall,another is 3 ft behinds the speakers and is covered in floor to ceiling drapes on a 9 ft wall,the third wall on one side is all glass (glass door and full length window next to it ) the final wall behind the sitting position has glass covered photos and prints.On The sides of each speaker are over stuffed chairs with a couch facing the speakers.Hanging plants are in all corners.The room has wall to wall carpeting. For domestic tranquility I can only subtract components so bass traps and alike are verboten. I listen Stones, Beatles, Who,female solos, symphonies,and jazz(sax oriented).
Are there any cheap tweeks to improve current system given the above, max budget $1000.However if can improve my sound by selling off apiece of gear and adding that revenue I'd do it, just don't know what I'd get off the sale.
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If at age 78 you're still getting your beard buttered, you have no real complaints. As for your system, acoustical treatments aren't necessarily ugly. Wite panels on a white ceiling are practically invisible and make a big improvement on the largest flat acoustically reflective surface in your environment. 6 - 2X4 ft panels would add 48Ft2 of broad band absorption. We added about that much to the ceiling in our slope ceiling living room. Not only are they not noticed visually, my wife definitely noticed how much more 'intimate' (her words) the space feels with its liveliness tamed a bit. She's a believer in acoustical treatments now. |
OP, as a fellow subject to aged hearing that also began with loud tools and loud...louder likely music as baggage... Do you wear aids? -or- Would you accept an equalizer that had room correction abilities? -or- Both....like me? ...the ’rest of me’ is my own problem....*L* ;) If traps won't fly, I suspect panels overhead won't get to either..... An eq up to the task, 'reasonable' cables to knit it in, and a calibrated mic as it's 'ears'.....$1K ought to do it, shopping 'hard' for the sweet stuff if you must...😏 ...and you can always 'tweak to taste'....;) Mho.....If you're 'buttering your beard'.....either wasting it or not performing 'proper'.... My mustache? Yes, Certainly..need not ask. My beard? Go to go in that latitude.....a visit to the Hills, perhaps..... Anywhere Else? ....I trust y'all have That figured out by now.....🙄 |
......I don't drop mics... |
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