Hi all, I just found the site and the forum and I can't speak more highly about it. Wonderful information for a novice.
Inspired by everyone's wonderful comments to Sandy Fry's setup question, I figured I'd also seek your advice.
My wife finally convinced me to get rid of old budget Technics receiver and KLH floor speakers that were decaying in a spare bedroom. I've found myself working from home a lot and I hate hate hate listening to radio and music on computer speakers right in front of my face. My office is about 11 ft square, so I don't have room to move my old stereo equipment in here and I'd like to place the audio equipment on a bookshelf behind my work desk. I'm finding the ELAC B5 or B6 speakers intriguing from all the great reviews. I'd like to find something like the NAD D 3050 to power the speakers while still enabling me to stream music from my NAS that's located in another room. I don't mind losing out on an FM tuner and I think that a full size stereo or AV receiver would be too large for a bookshelf. I'm coming up short on what amp or streaming equipment I should look into.
As to the type of music, I listen to a fairly broad range from glam, punk, ambient, jazz, and classical, but also a lot of talk radio and audiobooks. I'd like to stay under $1000 total.
I'd love to receive any suggestions you may have.
Cheers, theFuzz
Hi all, I just found the site and the forum and I can't speak more highly about it. Wonderful information for a novice.
Inspired by everyone's wonderful comments to Sandy Fry's setup question, I figured I'd also seek your advice.
My wife finally convinced me to get rid of old budget Technics receiver and KLH floor speakers that were decaying in a spare bedroom. I've found myself working from home a lot and I hate hate hate listening to radio and music on computer speakers right in front of my face. My office is about 11 ft square, so I don't have room to move my old stereo equipment in here and I'd like to place the audio equipment on a bookshelf behind my work desk. I'm finding the ELAC B5 or B6 speakers intriguing from all the great reviews. I'd like to find something like the NAD D 3050 to power the speakers while still enabling me to stream music from my NAS that's located in another room. I don't mind losing out on an FM tuner and I think that a full size stereo or AV receiver would be too large for a bookshelf. I'm coming up short on what amp or streaming equipment I should look into.
As to the type of music, I listen to a fairly broad range from glam, punk, ambient, jazz, and classical, but also a lot of talk radio and audiobooks. I'd like to stay under $1000 total.
I'd love to receive any suggestions you may have.
Cheers, theFuzz