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i need to rob a bank lol....thanks for you're honesty tocool lad, the only speakers i would like are the top monitor audio or technics sb m1000 but they are both beyond me as the monitor audio are about 4 grand second hand and the sb m100o are now expensive as there from the 90's and are regarded as technics best speakers, I'm still more than happy with mine at least i havn't blown them for a few months now lol, mind you it probably cost over a grand as i had blown them so many times, only the mid range have never blown on them

 

Stop blowing them up.

 

It goes from one extreme to another my friend, people spending more on a stereo than a house lol me in the middle then you listening to epic albums on Hitachi minis lol i won't say what i think about Hitachi lol
to be honest i was pushing my speakers to hard as i thought they were 200w rms (that's what there advertised rating is) but there only about 50w each all of them....ad to that twin 32band equ's 2 of them set for destructive bass, no speaker can cope with that...actually those large things with 15" drivers could take anything i threw at them which i don't get because the drivers were really cheap online at about £15 each....i have not blown anything for a few months now as i have capped my amp at 50w p/c so all good my friend, did i say this bass is sometimes scary as it goes that low at times just how i like it. lad, honestly i just don't get the fascination with minis there are a few fascinated with them, the fun starts with boxes like m90's and gets better as you go on imho

 

A friend said he may be able to put fuse protection in the speakers but i don't think I'm going that route, my amp is a savage beast one of technics best and can kill most speakers with ease and without distortion (i don't like distortion ether ) it's a technics su v8 i have 2 1 silver 1 black...i don't think they made many as powerful my friend apologies for yesterday i think i went overboard as usual lol

 

i just want to see people getting the best they can for there money my friend and have the best enjoyment they can but I'm outspoken sometimes lad

Member deech has a nice sanyo mini top one for sale on ebay but i can't find it, would have been wright up you're ally lad

 

Back when they were more popular most people thought that the weak part of mini systems were the speakers. In the U.K. there was quite a large market for replacement speakers for mini-systems. Not necessarily bigger but better made. Think Wharfedale Diamonds, or for a product that would definitely be available in the USA, the Radio Shack Minimus 7
https://zstereo.co.uk/2020/12/31/realistic-minimus-7/
A few years ago I bought an Aiwa system just to get the nice Gale speakers it came with, giving away the rest. Last weekend there was a Sony mini system at the local car boot sale. From the front the speakers looked O.K. A quick look at the back showed they were made of thin chipboard with the fixed cable going through a slot in the back. Seeing that I didn't bother asking the price.

 

same with boomboxes the speakers are normally the weakest part, i always used to change them out, have to admit though not going out these days boomboxes hardly get used, i use the hifi mostly guys

 

Going back to hi-fi: I remember a letter to Stereophile saying that folks whose Stereo is more pricey than Dude’s car are NUTS… Was proud of myself: my front-end of Naim CDS3+LP12 cost me more than my Saab Aero…

@TooCooL4 - this might sound as an advise, but it Is Not!: I just hate advisers with no creds. What is your experience with upping your amplifier but keeping your present monitors? Your front-end is as good as anyone actually working for a living can dream of, unless they are Mikey who gets TTs ‘at cost’…

 

@Jorge I went from NuForce Reference 9SE V2 mono blocks to Spectral Pre / Power amp, while keeping my current speakers. Going to the Spectral and keeping the Peak Consult, I gained more 3 dimensionality, clarity, more body the speakers was allowed to show more of what it can do. Overall improvement in all areas, but since I have heard the electronics combination sound so much better with the speakers I want. I know the current speakers as good as it is, is holding the rest of the electronics back it has scaled up but now I feel it’s at it’s limit. Now it’s the bottle neck of the system. £18000 for new speakers at the moment is a big chunk of change with everything else going on at the moment.

 

understood! I was wondering if Spectral monoblocks would get a better grip on your Princess-es. This kind of upgrade worked for me but I keep forgetting that early on I switched to external and then active x-overs so my speakers were just boxes with drivers, one variable less than normal

 

@Jorge My current Spectral stereo amp is more than enough to drive and control the Princess. The Princess has reached its limit so putting even better amps behind it will not yield much more. The Princess just does not have the resolution the current electronics behind it needs.

 

Loved reading your jouney

The C-5 is still providing me dependable operation, now must be approaching 15 years or something. Love that it plays CD, SACD, DVD-A, and normal DVD discs (automatically selecting the PCM track on DVD). I've got it on the "Measure" filter instead of "Listen" for extended HF response to leverage the Focal's beryllium tweeter. Really don't have any upgraditis at this point, and just enjoying the music. I play with speaker positioning once a while but it's limited given my amount of room.

Your Naim setup must've been a killer one. I constantly hear great things about Naim. What Naim amps did you have downstream of the CDS3?

 

I'm a fan of earlier years Disturbed.

 

@Willng001 - YES! my Naim setup was an 'end-game' for me, not changed in over 10 years. Two NAP-250 driving Naim SBLs in active mode sounded right to my ears and to my tastes. Once I realized that Naim Audio is going somewhere I do not want to go, I grabbed TOTL 'olive series' Naim amplification from my local dealer (basically re-sell from the guys who cannot get off Upgraditis wagon) and just did a re-cap every 5 years. Do not tell my little secret to @TooCooL4 but my $4k SBLs worked for me, and $200 Mana Stands for SBLs (how stupid is that!) were the only real upgrade to the speakers I did in over 25 years! But: SBLs I would not advise to any of my friends - real pain to keep them in shape, but the benefit was that SBLs were designed to do their magic when placed against the wall. Also, unlike you and @TooCooL4 I could not play with positioning and room treatment, so had to accept cavernous space and all-wrong symmetries

 

@Jorge I am sure the SBL’s work for you, one of my friends still uses his SBL’s with his full Naim / Linn setup. He has 52 pre, super cap power supply, 2 x 250 power amp ect, the SBL’s are good but a bit long in the tooth now. Besides Naim / Linn setup is a very different sound to Spectral Audio / Peak Consult sound.