How best to upgrade


I invested in my present set up years ago to play vinyl discs and as an afterthought added a cd player as vinyl lost favour. It was largely unused for many years as our children grew up, however recently I have re-discovered music (CDs) but feel my enjoyment is being curtailed by the lack of quality of 1 or more components. I want to upgrade but am not sure where to start, or indeed whether I would be better advised to discard everything and start again from scratch. Any help would be gratefully received.

My current CD set up consists of:

Creek Audio 4040 Amplifier
Monitor Audio R252 Speakers
Arcam Delta 70.2 CD Player
tony48

Showing 1 response by mr_hosehead

Not sure where to start? Listen more...

Seriously, consider all that Unsound listed but on top of that just listen even more. After you do a bunch of that are there just certain CDs where you think the sound is "just off" or after listening more and more and more is there something in general that you think ain't quite what you want today. And that's another point - remember that your hearing has probably changed a little over those years and you might not appreciate the same overall sound you once did. If you think that's on target then probably concentrate on speaker alternatives (or room improvement) - or maybe just listen more to start to (re-)catch those subtleties you used to really like about listening to your stuff.