hmmmm this thread would actually be useful for me for the first time

see, im planning to 'have' an rm5.5k budget within a year/year and a half's time. i hope to get a pair of bookshelves and an amp and have it plugged to my 0404 [if it aint up to the task, ill go look for an external DAC later].

though there is still plently of time, there is no harm for me to plan and look around... so far, im very interested in KEF's iQ3 and Mission's 780. as you can see, both are harbouring around 300 pounds [my max budget for the speakers]. perhaps you guys have any other suggestions for me to look into?

my dad was an ex-hifi freak, he told me to stay away from brands such as B&W, Whaferdale, Tannoy and so on. he says they're not good brands, however ive read very good reviews for whaferdale's diamond 8.1.

perhaps you guys can give me some additional info/input/advise/suggestion?

many thanks

hmmm double post, sorry bout this, the forum hung and i pressed too many times i guess

This post has been edited by Silon: Mar 21 2006, 11:45 PM

yes definately, but i cant possible audition all speakers and im just merely looking at these as a baseline. im thinking: everyone says speaker A is good then id go have a look, while everyone says speaker B isnt then i wont waste my time with it.

'when it arrives'? isnt it here already?

the thing is, KEF speakers are well known for their occasionally over biased mids -or so ive read in the reviews and was told by my dad, but the one and only malaysian distributor is in perak and it makes things easier for me. the other one im looking at, the mission, would be hard to find...

Pro Ac you say? im gonna go have a look of them later

was looking at the linn katan, until i realised they were 600 pounds and wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy out of my budget

many thanks for the names and models SC
ill start looking into them. yeah, i kinda left MS out of the list very early on, it was words like 'either you love it or you hate it' from my dad's mags that made me look at it in a less positive way, but im gonna look into them again

edit: oh, and thinking back, MS's low prices are also another factor that is driving me away from them. for instance, MS's floorstander [MS904] sells for around 250pounds. when you compare this to linn's CHEAPEST entry level bookshelves that start at 600pounds, it really makes me look at them in a negative way

hmmm thought it was launched a couple of years ago, it takes such a long them fro them to arrive? did you notice a bias towards the mids?

oh and btw, do you guys have any reccomendations on an amp? 200~300pounds?

This post has been edited by Silon: Mar 22 2006, 09:16 PM

im reffering to the pound because the reviews i read are british, the speakers i want are british and besides, ive already taken the additional price increases into consideration [+35~40%].

300 pounds for the speaker, 250~300 pounds for the amp. all in all 550 or 600 pounds. which, after everything *should* be around rm5500. or at least, i hope

SC, i dont get what youre trying to say
perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean by deciding on a 'preferred sound' first and then find a speaker that suits my budget?

and thanks for additional the suggestion and link

ok, gotcha.

speaking of speaker auditioning, would it be hard to be able to listen to brands such as mordaunt short or Mission, since they do not have a distributor in malaysia? [perhaps they do, but its not listed on their site so i am not sure ]

oh and, when auditioning a speaker, there isnt a variable constant: the amp, cd player and environmental acoustics are all different. how do i know which is which and which one i would like, given there are so many differences in configuration between systems?

thanks a million

hi, i was wondering, do you guys know where people buy/sell hifi stuff in msia?

something like the tradezone sub forums here but for hifi stuff? [the music & audio related accessories isnt what i would call a great place to buy/sell hifi stuff, wont you agree? ]

yeah, doesnt seem like many people are interested in hifi stuff
imagine an entire tradezone sub forum trading hifi stuff!!

htkaki, what about you/your friends/people you know who are interested in hifi? what happens when they upgrade - where do they sell their things to?

thanks eyerule, ill go google it up!

yes, i found the site earlier in the afternoon, but thanks anyway!

btw what about you, SiriuslyCold? what happens when you upgrade components? where do you go to look for buyers [or do you keep all the stuff and NEVA sell? ]
i assume singapore has a larger audiophile community than msia?

hey thanks alot for the link htkaki

the components here are much better than the components sold in the star's classifieds

audiophiles that dont upgrade often? hmmm

i did a search at ebay msia the other day and the hifi stuff there was worse that what we have at the music & audio related acessories sub forums!

ive been looking around for the past week thinking about how i hoped for massive, large scale, tradezone styled trading. i guess my plan to get some nifty 2nd hand stuff in an attempt to cut short the time needed [to accumulate mohnay] isnt as brilliant as it first seemed!

but hey, thanks alot for the links htkaki, eyerule and SiriuslyCold [last but not least, of course! ]

oh well, no hifi stuff for this guy for years to come then






btw SiriuslyCold, that last sentence deserves an EVEN bigger, badder and looonger "HMMMMMMMMMM"

well, ill be scrutinising those few pages when ive accumulated enough, eyerule


thanks for the link, SiriuslyCold
[*chukles* we'll see how long you last with your current setup! ]


what happens when you've been bitten by the hifi bug and have no money? [damn thats gotta hurt badly! i wish i this never happens to me]