Just my opinion, but since I’ve just gone through my 11th set of speakers looking to achieve that perfect sound I can tell you this. New speakers and I mean modern speakers are going to sound much different then the older classics or than what you’ve been listening to for years. Probably going to be a lot more revealing and depending on the quality of your source material you may not like what you hear.
Keep in mind much of that classic rock stuff was not recorded very well and new speakers will not fix bad recordings. I can’t stress enough take your time, listen to as many speakers as you can with your vinyl or whatever music source you use. If you can “in home trial”, even better. Just realize the honeymoon of new speakers can be short lived and can have you listening to music that sounds good on your speakers but not be the type of music you like.
Speakers or Turntable upgrade
I've been bitten by the upgrade bug. It's amazing how a small initial thought can snowball. I found a Clearaudio MM cartridge I forgot I had. It's been sitting in a drawer for 10 years due to upgrading the cartridge out of the box on my Clearaudio Concept TT. My thought was to get a cheap TT to mount the cartridge for my office system.
That turned into finding a good deal on a Rega Planar 2 with an ND cartridge. My other Turntable is a Rega Planar 3 with 2M Bronze. The Planar 2 got sold which led me to a Planar 3 with an Exact 2, but I didn't want the same TT. That led to looking at the Planar 6 and 8. I came to the conclusion that the 6 wouldn't be a big enough jump so I'm looking at a Planar 8 with ND7. Planar 8 would be my main rig and the Planar 3 would go to the office system.
I'm now looking at $3500 and started thinking if my money would be served better by upgrading my speakers instead. Sorry for the meandering post.
My system:
Rega Planar 3, Rotel RC 150, Rotel RB-1080, HTPC with DAC.
Speakers: Paradigm Studio 100 v2. and SVS SB3000 subwoofer
I listen to classic rock, new rock, 80's rock, and metal. I listen at fairly robust volumes.
Am I better off sticking that money into speakers than upgrading my TT?
- ...
- 35 posts total
- 35 posts total