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With the recent surge of the new recent music purchases thread (thanks, Shifts!) - I encourage you to post photos of your system setup, hi-fi or computer audiophile. Here is mine - it's all in one audio and video. I upgraded everything last year, with the exception of the receiver. Unfortunately, I have to manually switch front towers cables because I have two different things driving audio and video, but I've grown accustomed to it.
Front towers - Focal Aria 926 - my biggest upgrade and they are brilliant!
Amplifier - Nuprime IDA-8, a D+A class amp (hence it's tiny size) in my opinion the best amp $1,000 can buy and I did A LOT of research. Very happy with it. It sounds fantastic but it's also very versatile - you can stream audio via BlueTooth to it in addition to regular RCA and optical connections.
Receiver - my old Yamaha receiver, which I still use for watching TV/movies and it does the job just fine. Not planning to get rid of it any time soon.
CD/DVD/B-Ray transport - OPPO BDP-103. The idea was to replace different boxes I had with one. I am marginally happy with it. While the BD/DVD playback is flawless and it plays any file you can throw at it via a front USB port, I find the CD audio underwhelming even in the pure audio mode (which cuts off all video processing), though many would call it natural. I preferred the brighter sound of my old Yamaha CD changer, which made those Focals really sing the high notes, (I suppose it's a somewhat personal preference). I am still considering adding a dedicated CD transport.
TV - LG OLED 1080p - do yourself a favor and buy this. You don't even need 4k - the picture is mind-blowing.
Center speaker and surround satellites (not pictured) by Anthony Gallo
Front towers - Focal Aria 926 - my biggest upgrade and they are brilliant!
Amplifier - Nuprime IDA-8, a D+A class amp (hence it's tiny size) in my opinion the best amp $1,000 can buy and I did A LOT of research. Very happy with it. It sounds fantastic but it's also very versatile - you can stream audio via BlueTooth to it in addition to regular RCA and optical connections.
Receiver - my old Yamaha receiver, which I still use for watching TV/movies and it does the job just fine. Not planning to get rid of it any time soon.
CD/DVD/B-Ray transport - OPPO BDP-103. The idea was to replace different boxes I had with one. I am marginally happy with it. While the BD/DVD playback is flawless and it plays any file you can throw at it via a front USB port, I find the CD audio underwhelming even in the pure audio mode (which cuts off all video processing), though many would call it natural. I preferred the brighter sound of my old Yamaha CD changer, which made those Focals really sing the high notes, (I suppose it's a somewhat personal preference). I am still considering adding a dedicated CD transport.
TV - LG OLED 1080p - do yourself a favor and buy this. You don't even need 4k - the picture is mind-blowing.
Center speaker and surround satellites (not pictured) by Anthony Gallo
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