So big changes are afoot for this office system.
I need to be honest, and admit that I just wasn’t getting the sound quality that I was hoping for.
With that in mind,
The NHT C1’s will be moving to surround speaker duty in my main home theater rig, displacing some Paradigm micro’s, which will become spare speakers for swap in duty wherever needed.
The Powernode 2 is moving on to become the powerplant/source in what will be a new system for me, system 4: The portable system!! I see this as being used for impromptu setups in the garage when I’m working there, or when I travel with family on car trips as hotel room setup, or things like that. Speakers for this portable system will be NHT Absolute Zero bookshelfs.
So what is coming in to Office System 3? Well, what had been the primary speakers in my Bedroom music system 2: Spendor SA1 bookshelfs! These will be huge upgrade over the NHT C1’s. I hope they will give me what I need in the office. I’ll be keeping the Sunfire 8" sub with this setup.
As for amplification, I started another thread to explore that, but the current pre-race leader is marantz pm7000n all-in-one integrated/streamer/dac. AK4490 dac chips and lots of advanced marantz sound quality features, for $1k seems like a real bargain and major step-up over Powernode 2. Looking forward to getting back to Class AB sound.
That’s if I don’t go instead with Hegel H90, also under consideration. It’s 1k more expensive though and I’m not sure about the stream interface -- need to investigate these two options more.
Anyway, It’ll be awhile tile I get the marantz or hegel, but I should have the Spendor SA1’s migrated to Sys 3 in a week or so, and can do some head-to-heads vs C-1’s with the Powernode 2.
I’m also going to try bumping up from AmazonBasics speaker cable to some Signal Magic speaker cables and subwoofer cable, and Pangea power cords, so we’ll see how that impacts things as well.
One thing that has crossed my mind is that maybe I’ll never be truly happy with the sound of any speakers that are not floorstanders and can present a "bigger" sound (reason I'll be going to floorstanders in Sys 2), even though I’m using a subwoofer with bookshelves. The Spendor SA1’s will help me decide that, I guess, and it’s a moot point anyway because my office really can’t support floorstanders space-wise, so I’ll have to make the best of it.
I need to be honest, and admit that I just wasn’t getting the sound quality that I was hoping for.
With that in mind,
The NHT C1’s will be moving to surround speaker duty in my main home theater rig, displacing some Paradigm micro’s, which will become spare speakers for swap in duty wherever needed.
The Powernode 2 is moving on to become the powerplant/source in what will be a new system for me, system 4: The portable system!! I see this as being used for impromptu setups in the garage when I’m working there, or when I travel with family on car trips as hotel room setup, or things like that. Speakers for this portable system will be NHT Absolute Zero bookshelfs.
So what is coming in to Office System 3? Well, what had been the primary speakers in my Bedroom music system 2: Spendor SA1 bookshelfs! These will be huge upgrade over the NHT C1’s. I hope they will give me what I need in the office. I’ll be keeping the Sunfire 8" sub with this setup.
As for amplification, I started another thread to explore that, but the current pre-race leader is marantz pm7000n all-in-one integrated/streamer/dac. AK4490 dac chips and lots of advanced marantz sound quality features, for $1k seems like a real bargain and major step-up over Powernode 2. Looking forward to getting back to Class AB sound.
That’s if I don’t go instead with Hegel H90, also under consideration. It’s 1k more expensive though and I’m not sure about the stream interface -- need to investigate these two options more.
Anyway, It’ll be awhile tile I get the marantz or hegel, but I should have the Spendor SA1’s migrated to Sys 3 in a week or so, and can do some head-to-heads vs C-1’s with the Powernode 2.
I’m also going to try bumping up from AmazonBasics speaker cable to some Signal Magic speaker cables and subwoofer cable, and Pangea power cords, so we’ll see how that impacts things as well.
One thing that has crossed my mind is that maybe I’ll never be truly happy with the sound of any speakers that are not floorstanders and can present a "bigger" sound (reason I'll be going to floorstanders in Sys 2), even though I’m using a subwoofer with bookshelves. The Spendor SA1’s will help me decide that, I guess, and it’s a moot point anyway because my office really can’t support floorstanders space-wise, so I’ll have to make the best of it.