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Floor-standing speakers with a R140k budget?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tzs503gp" data-source="post: 1128493" data-attributes="member: 19443"><p>You could build a really nice system for R140k just in AudioExchange’s current stock of used equipment. </p><p>OP, I highly recommend you go that route.</p><p></p><p>As for the recommendation for room treatment first, I think you boys are forgetting that this thing of ours is a journey, not a destination. And then, its a journey not everyone cares to enjoy, or even continue on. Of course I agree that room treatment is immensely valuable, but the advantages of such are not always obvious to unpracticed ears. </p><p></p><p>I say buy the best speakers you can find for R100k. Those will satisfy you for a good few years to come, and can carry one through the evolution to treated room status. Spend the other R40k on amplification. Whatever you want, be it valves or SS- whatever works nicely with the speakers you’ve chosen. Get to know that setup, sell the amp (or the speakers for that matter) if you want to try something else, rinse, repeat. Amps, and to a lesser degree, speakers in those price ranges will generally hold that value for some time on the secondhand market (but be careful- that is just a generalisation) </p><p></p><p>There’s fantastic value in the secondhand market. Don’t pay for new stuff until you have traveled the road a few miles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tzs503gp, post: 1128493, member: 19443"] You could build a really nice system for R140k just in AudioExchange’s current stock of used equipment. OP, I highly recommend you go that route. As for the recommendation for room treatment first, I think you boys are forgetting that this thing of ours is a journey, not a destination. And then, its a journey not everyone cares to enjoy, or even continue on. Of course I agree that room treatment is immensely valuable, but the advantages of such are not always obvious to unpracticed ears. I say buy the best speakers you can find for R100k. Those will satisfy you for a good few years to come, and can carry one through the evolution to treated room status. Spend the other R40k on amplification. Whatever you want, be it valves or SS- whatever works nicely with the speakers you’ve chosen. Get to know that setup, sell the amp (or the speakers for that matter) if you want to try something else, rinse, repeat. Amps, and to a lesser degree, speakers in those price ranges will generally hold that value for some time on the secondhand market (but be careful- that is just a generalisation) There’s fantastic value in the secondhand market. Don’t pay for new stuff until you have traveled the road a few miles. [/QUOTE]
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