Hello!
I just joined the ASR community and was curious on the best path forward with my future plans. I just bought some ascend acoustics tower speakers to fill up my two story 1600SQFT condo. These towers will ideally be for critical listening as well as for watching movies (50%/50%). My condo has vaulted ceilings and I am about 13 feet away from the speakers when sitting on my couch. I plan to one day upgrade to a 5.1 surround system in a year or two, but I want to build towards a quality 2.0 system first.
Originally I had bought a NAD M33 and was pretty happy with it, but I realized that there is no way to match them up to a receiver in the future because it does not have passthrough. I have read the forums noting of hacks to combine an AVR with it, but it will need delay relays to delay the sounds to the other speakers and it just all seems rather complex to integrate. The way I see it, I can do a couple things:
1. Buy streamer(node) + dac(schitt modius) + preamp(freya S) + amp (buckeye stereo purifi) separates. When it comes time to integrate an AVR, I can just add in a balanced audio switch to the AMP and I switch it over if I want to move to Movie mode.
2. Buy a integrated streamer/dac/preamp (matrix audio m2 is top choice) + amp (buckeye stereo purifi). Again, I can buy an audio switch when the time is right.
3. Buy an integrated amp with pass through, but nothing tested by ASR so far has enough wattage (>150) or high enough SINAD(>100) to merit this.
4. Just buy an AVR now (Marantz Cinema 40) and just use the stereo speakers and build slowly from there.
Are there any other options I'm missing? I am assuming 1 is very complex, 3 won't be satisfactory, and 4 will just be overkill for now. Thoughts?
Extraneous information that may be useful:
- I might want to add a subwoofer for 2.1 listening sooner
- I have an HTPC for watching 4k movies. I plan to also use this for dirac when I want to do more critical listening within the room
Thank you!
York
I just joined the ASR community and was curious on the best path forward with my future plans. I just bought some ascend acoustics tower speakers to fill up my two story 1600SQFT condo. These towers will ideally be for critical listening as well as for watching movies (50%/50%). My condo has vaulted ceilings and I am about 13 feet away from the speakers when sitting on my couch. I plan to one day upgrade to a 5.1 surround system in a year or two, but I want to build towards a quality 2.0 system first.
Originally I had bought a NAD M33 and was pretty happy with it, but I realized that there is no way to match them up to a receiver in the future because it does not have passthrough. I have read the forums noting of hacks to combine an AVR with it, but it will need delay relays to delay the sounds to the other speakers and it just all seems rather complex to integrate. The way I see it, I can do a couple things:
1. Buy streamer(node) + dac(schitt modius) + preamp(freya S) + amp (buckeye stereo purifi) separates. When it comes time to integrate an AVR, I can just add in a balanced audio switch to the AMP and I switch it over if I want to move to Movie mode.
2. Buy a integrated streamer/dac/preamp (matrix audio m2 is top choice) + amp (buckeye stereo purifi). Again, I can buy an audio switch when the time is right.
3. Buy an integrated amp with pass through, but nothing tested by ASR so far has enough wattage (>150) or high enough SINAD(>100) to merit this.
4. Just buy an AVR now (Marantz Cinema 40) and just use the stereo speakers and build slowly from there.
Are there any other options I'm missing? I am assuming 1 is very complex, 3 won't be satisfactory, and 4 will just be overkill for now. Thoughts?
Extraneous information that may be useful:
- I might want to add a subwoofer for 2.1 listening sooner
- I have an HTPC for watching 4k movies. I plan to also use this for dirac when I want to do more critical listening within the room
Thank you!
York