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And I’d say that I have no desire to waste my time by engaging with someone as arrogant and small minded as yourself.
Wow, that escalated quickly!! I'm just waiting for someone to blame the Tories- shouldn't be long 😉
Blackflag 🙂
I’d give my left bollock for that, if I thought that the first object of my lust would allow it in the house
Honestly sweetheart, go for it, I don't mind.
I have lots of vinyl in the loft and would love a turntable to play them on. That Richer sounds offer (sans Amp) looks like a reasonable place to start. If I bought that what is the minimum I could spend on an Amp to make it work and until I could upgrade it??? There seem lots of mini Amps on Amazon etc, would any of these be suitable?
I've been stopping myself from buying a little all-in-one hi-fi for a month or so, because I don't really need it as I can stream most music I listen to. I opened this thread in the vague thought that someone might know the item and say it's crap so then I can stop wondering whether to buy it.
Denon-M41DAB...great sound for such a small unit really
Denon DM41 .... sound pretty good for the money.
I have a Denon D-M41DAB with Q Acoustics 3020 bookshelf speakers and it sounds fantastic.
Another happy Denon RCD-M41DAB user here
And here to. 🙂
Ah, balls, you're a bunch of dicks! 😀
I have quite a large record collection as well Spotify. I really don’t get what CDs bring to the party these days. Other than the fact they are dirt cheap obviously.
I still have hundreds of CDs, plenty of which aren't on the streaming sites. Also, many bands I follow are releasing really nice anniversary boxes of CDs (or vinyl) with lots of extras that don't make it onto streaming sites. (And have nice boxes!) And finally, I follow plenty of small bands who release CDs which, yes you've guessed it, don't make it on to the streaming sites. 😀
I like CDs. I had hundreds. I now have maybe a couple of dozen, the rest are in a mate's loft.
Because, I realised, I was the absolute opposite of the OP. When did I actually last play physical media? Convenience rules. I had a huge drawerful of cassettes for decades, maybe 200 albums that I'd built up since I first started "buying" (copying) music in the mid-1980s. But I found, I was opening the drawer, using it for inspiration as to what I'd not listened to for a while, then closing the drawer again and streaming it or playing mp3s. I had a decent Yamaha hi-fi separates cassette deck, it probably got used twice in its lifetime.
So I curated the lot into "cassettes" and "CDs" playlists on Spotify, the discs went to my mate as above and the tapes went to landfill. And I'll be honest, it hurt. It hurt a lot, almost as much as the inevitable demise of my Laserdisc collection. But today I can go "Alexa, play compact discs on shuffle" and have immediate access to every shinydisc I spent money on, randomly playing tracks I've long forgotten.
It's the future.
@Cougar I have about 350 CDs, plus many more copied onto computer hard drive & phone, I can play them on shuffle by Bluetooth or network whenever I want, I don't pay £120pa or have to listen to adverts to play them.
I don’t pay £120pa or have to listen to adverts to play them.
Even when I get my next CD player I won't get rid of my Apple Music sub. I listen to so much new music - stuff that I'd never spend money on - for a few pounds a month that it would be lunacy to go back to only buying a handful of CDs a month (at a much higher cost). I will be buying the CDs that don't make it onto the streaming services though, and supporting smaller bands that I like by buying their CDs whether they are streamed or not. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
have immediate access to every shinydisc I spent money on
An issue I find with Spotify is that I generally don't ever think "I fancy listening to <insert specific album/artist>", I generally just think "I fancy listening to some music" and having access to all the music that's ever been made doesn't actually help me choose something to listen to. I find having a finite (if possibly large) selection makes the choice easier, as I can browse through it and go "Ah, I've not listened to that/them for a while, I'll stick that on", and stick it on.
(FWIW all my CDs were ripped to MP3 in ye olde days of iPods, and consequently now live on my phone, so I can do said browsing/listening)
An issue I find with Spotify is that I generally don’t ever think
See, I find the opposite.
The barrier to entry I had for ages was "I don't know what to listen to... so I'll not bother." It's why the tape drawer survived as long as it did. With Spotify I can browse my collection for inspiration of a specific album or I can just go "play some music".
The thing I love about streaming are the suggestions it makes of music it thinks I might like, it opens up a whole new world of music and because I like and play some of the stuff again it suggests other stuff I might like and on it goes, I get to listen to tons of music I otherwise would never have known about.
I got a Brennan B3 and a pair of Wharfdale diamond 9.1 speakers. It is a great setup. I have ripped my CDs to the hard drive in a lossless format and can play them either via the onboard app and attached speakers, or over my Sonos network too. Much better sound than streaming and the best of all worlds.
I’ve got a denon dm-40, myself.
I’d pair it with the smallest quality speakers, possible.
The amp tends to run quite hot if pair it with any medium to large bookshelf speakers.
There’s a connection on the back (8ohm) to pair mine up with a line input of my bass guitar amp to take some of the strain off the unit (works great).
tbh, I’d invest in some proper open-backed headphones.
If you need more oomph, you can always send the signal from the ‘aux out’ on the back of the denon to an even bigger (audiovisual) amp, to drive an extra pair of speakers.