Hello. I am new here. This is my build log for my new setup. This is sort of a cross-post from www.diyma.com as I had put it there first, but since it's a car audio site I didn't get a lot of feedback.
So now you know I'm coming from a car stereo background. I owned my previous home system for about 20 years. I had bought it when I was about 15 by raking leaves and doing odd jobs. It served me well but I felt it was time for a change. The Kenwood receiver had some channel imbalance issues. The 3 way Jensen house speakers were faded and had tears in the paper cones and one of the speaker jacks was always coming loose. My Sony dvd player was annoying from day 1 because it took so long to load a disc and would only play after it was loaded and you hit play about 10 times/
Enough of the old here is the new.
Originally I had planned on a separate preamp/ amp combo something like a Denon AVR-XXXX but a couple guys suggested I look at the Oppo Bdp-105 as it could serve as my preamp. I also planned on going with some crown xls-1000's but again was steered away as they had too high of a signal to noise ratio. (more to come)
So now you know I'm coming from a car stereo background. I owned my previous home system for about 20 years. I had bought it when I was about 15 by raking leaves and doing odd jobs. It served me well but I felt it was time for a change. The Kenwood receiver had some channel imbalance issues. The 3 way Jensen house speakers were faded and had tears in the paper cones and one of the speaker jacks was always coming loose. My Sony dvd player was annoying from day 1 because it took so long to load a disc and would only play after it was loaded and you hit play about 10 times/
Originally I had planned on a separate preamp/ amp combo something like a Denon AVR-XXXX but a couple guys suggested I look at the Oppo Bdp-105 as it could serve as my preamp. I also planned on going with some crown xls-1000's but again was steered away as they had too high of a signal to noise ratio. (more to come)