Incoming! The New Equipment Thread

Saw a Sutherland 20/20 mkii LPS for $1400 on USAM so I bit. Thinking is either:

- it isn’t as much an upgrade as I’d want: will look to sell and make money back

- it is a worthy upgrade and I sell the Insight to recoup a good chunk of the 20/20 cost

- I cosplay as Bill Gates and keep both until I get a new turntable and amp down the line and have two full systems in a tiny 1BR apt like a maniac
 
Why do one big upgrade when you can do two!

Kef LSX II’s inbound to replace my office setup. I was going to get a half size amp/streamer and a set of passive speakers, but this is a cheaper option than what I was looking at, and it allows me to move them about the house for movie/games nights. Good a good deal on an open box set in black, which is a result.
 
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The Kef’s are in! So far, so good. Easy to set up, and so far they are sounding great. A definite improvement on what I had in the office. It dropped out a couple of times playing a high res Qobuz stream, but I think that might be my router struggling with it. NAS and CD quality streams are working with no issues.

I’ve been loving playing my CD’s in the office, so I wonder if I’ll miss playing them and using streaming. I have all my CD’s on my NAS, and I can access them through the speakers. It feels different using my old CD’s though…
 
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The Kef’s are in! So far, so good. Easy to set up, and so far they are sounding great. A definite improvement on what I had in the office. It dropped out a couple of times playing a high res Qobuz stream, but I think that might be my router struggling with it. NAS and CD quality streams are working with no issues.

I’ve been loving playing my CD’s in the office, so I wonder if I’ll miss playing them and using streaming. I have all my CD’s on my NAS, and I can access them through the speakers. It feels different using my old CD’s though…
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Always loved the look of these. Very sharp.
 
Thackeraye said:
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The Kef’s are in! So far, so good. Easy to set up, and so far they are sounding great. A definite improvement on what I had in the office. It dropped out a couple of times playing a high res Qobuz stream, but I think that might be my router struggling with it. NAS and CD quality streams are working with no issues.

I’ve been loving playing my CD’s in the office, so I wonder if I’ll miss playing them and using streaming. I have all my CD’s on my NAS, and I can access them through the speakers. It feels different using my old CD’s though…
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Nice! Any sign of the fancy new amp yet?

You should be able to connect a little cd/dvd player to the coax/optical on the back of the master speaker.
 
kvetcha said:
I ended up not quad-amping because it would have meant re-doing my whole switch-amp configuration and things honestly sound great with just the two.
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yea i am quite enjoying the two for my office setup. the only downside at the moment is I can't figure out how to listen via headphones haha. I suppose I could turn the speakers off on my amp and then plug into headphone output on my amp? last time I tried, it was playing through my speakers AND my headphones which defeated the point of me listening via headphones when my kids asleep.
 
MikeH said:
yea i am quite enjoying the two for my office setup. the only downside at the moment is I can't figure out how to listen via headphones haha. I suppose I could turn the speakers off on my amp and then plug into headphone output on my amp? last time I tried, it was playing through my speakers AND my headphones which defeated the point of me listening via headphones when my kids asleep.
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I assume just inserting a Schiit Magni or similar between the preamp stage and the amp stage.
 
Joe Mac said:
Embrace the inevitable. If you decided to get a stand alone preamp at some stage, rather than just using the pre out on your old integrated, you could get one with a headphone output also. But yeah you’ll likely have to turn the power amps off to stop both playing for now.
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Yea...I may try a magni since its pretty cheap last time I checked. i should have taken that as my PIFsgiving prize last year!

Lately with how good the Bathys sound, I've just been blutoothing digital at night to listen in my office if I need.

So I'd go from the Fosi RCA outs to a headphone amp then to my Rotel? I may just sell my Rotel and pick up a Khozmo at some point.
 
ngower said:
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