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joatca;183138 Wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm not an audiophile, plus I'm Scottish and therefore > cheap. > > I have two SBs, an SB2 in the living room and this SB3 in the bedroom, > hooked up to a venerable old (and rather beat-up) NAD 3020 that I > picked up on eBay. It came with the original pre-amp-out-to-normal-in > jumper cables missing and replaced with a regular 6-foot RCA cable. I > had a local store make me a pair of three-inch jumpers from Monster > cable. Anyone know how much a 3020 cost brand-new? > > The NAD drives a pair of Mission 762i speakers, also from eBay. Total > cost, with shipping, $120 for the amp and $160 for the speakers (not > counting the stands, of course). It sounds better than anything I've > ever owned, even when playing MP3. > > At one point I had a bunch of video stuff in this room too (there's a > TV on the wall above it), and swapped out the NAD for a huge Yamaha > RX-V800 that I picked up for $500 just to get remote volume control and > video switching, and connected the SB by optical. Our main living room > amp just died so I'm pulling the Yamaha out to replace it, and the old > NAD is back in the bedroom. (One reason why it looks so tidy... I took > a picture as soon as I finished putting it together.) > > You know what? The $100 NAD connected RCA sounds better than the $500 > (list $900) Yamaha does by optical. I'm sure that none of you are > surprised. > > The little wireless headphones are connected directly to the SB and are > another eBay special, $20. Useless for music, but fine for listening to > the BBC World Service when my wife is asleep. > > Like I said, I'm cheap, but suggestions to improve the sound welcomed. > Cheap ones, that is... :-) I bought a 3020 when they first came out ages ago, but I'll be darned if I can remember how much I paid for it! It must have been in the $500 range ... I couldn't have afforded much more than that. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
