Upgrade Suggestions - Entry Level Setup

djones51,

"After you've read all the shilling for synergistic research garbage.."

I wish I'd said that.

A better amp ( more features and power) is one obvious answer.

Another would be a speaker upgrade. Nowadays there are quite a few high quality bookshelf (or even narrow footprint floorstanding) loudspeakers out there. 

If you want to stick with mini-monitors then your Oberon 1s will be hard to beat. So congrats on making a good buying decision there.

Since there's really little point in making incremental upgrades so you might as well wait until you can move on to some known high quality designs from the likes of Harbeth, Spendor, Rega or even pro audio designs from Neumann, Genelec, Yamaha etc. I'm sure there must be many others too.

When it comes to loudspeakers, there really is a bewildering choice out there. Like yourself I'm kind of stuck for upgrades too.

I guess once you get to the likes of Tannoy DCs the next serious step up is likely to be a very difficult and very costly one!

Here's what the legendary Dr Floyd Toole has at home.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thescreeningroomav.com/single-post/2019/03/06/The-Ultimate-Real-Wor...

prashanth13485,

As your cable is already 12 awg high purity oxygen free I cannot recommend any cable at any price that I believe would make any beneficial difference. 

Ditto for the Rega Brio or a Marantz PM 6006 both which I don't believe would offer much over your Nad 316 BEE v2. I've heard the predecessor (Nad 316 BEE v1) driving some vintage JBL L100s and there was little to criticise. Maybe the volume dial could have been better ganged as most of the power came in before 12 o'clock. 

You've already got a well set up and balanced system so there's no obvious need to risk the wrath of your wife! I'm sure she'd want you to spend the household money wisely.

However if you're feeling you need a distraction, (an all too familiar feeling among us audiophiles) maybe you could convince her of a venture into the world of vinyl. I kind of feel that every audiophile should try out vinyl at least once.  

In addition to the great suggestions above you might akso want to look at offerings from the Canadian firm Fluance who seem to offer fabulous value for money.

https://www.fluance.com/turntables

Even better you could let your wife chose the deck!