In The Entry Level, Colin mentioned how his wife bought him some premium grade interconnects for Father's Day and even had them set up for him upon arrival home! Nice! My wife has also been great about supporting my "habit" and I was wondering out of curiosity what other's experience is. So here's a Poll...

Purchased Nad int. amp and cd player. Now I'm zeroing in on my speakers. Originally I was going to purchase Paradigm Monitor 7s, but now I've decided to increase my budget to $1,000.

I can purchase demo B&W 603 s3 for $ 725. Is this a good deal? Also, will my NAD components (325BEE) drive them well? Also my room size is 23 x 18', will this speaker fill the room? Any other speakers you recommend I check out?

Thanks,
Derek

OK, I've out of the HiFi market for many years - since buying a Sansui AU-X901 int and a set of ADS L780 speakers many years ago - if indeed they qualify as HiFi.

Now, I'm acquiring a Rega Mira and a set of NHT THREEs. So what type of speaker cable do I need? One salesman said you need to break them in just like speakers and amps. I asked how much are the cables connected to the NHT THREEs and Mira, he said "three ninety-nine". I though he was kidding. He actually meant three-hundred ninety-nine dollars.

I'd like to hear suggestions for me.

G'day from a newbie in Australia! I recently came across a new website for a small Australian speaker company and thought the designer's forthright views deserved a wider audience. If you're wondering whether he can back them up, then the answer is a resounding 'yes'. He demo'd his base model to our audio society a few months back, using a system that we provided, with A/B comparison to B&W 805s and some small Sonus Fabers (I forget the model), both of which retail for around twice the price here.

Hello all. I'm on a very tight budget and this is the system I've been able to put together. Amplification is a PS Audio PSElite integrated amp. ADCOM GCD-575. Rotel RT-850A tuner. Speakers are AudioPro Avantek Six. Speaker cable is Vecteur and interconnects are Radio Shack Gold series. I'll soon be adding a Carver (forgot the model) power amp and using the PS as my pre-amp. I use Grado 60's and 125's for quiet times. Second system (in my tiny apartment) is a Denon PMA-750 integrated, Sony CDP-CE535 5 DISC changer and Paradigm Atom V3's.

A tour has been taking place and some customer comments are coming in. One can checkout these comments at:

http://www.sasaudiolabs.com/review3.htm

Take care.

I just got an Integra DTR 5.5 receiver the other day that I got from ebay. so far so good, sound is very good, definatly better than my 20 year old nad 7130.