Soundcard?

Get yourself a Lynx.

-JC

Anyway, to the Original Poster - That's quite a list, and I haven't
listened to anything on it. I do have some familiarity with some Yamaha
and Denon receivers and I've found them to be fine - in general I'd
recommend that you go for a receiver with lots of power. 100 wpc should
be just fine.

I will probably order Denon AVR455 receiver. It is currently best buy here
in Croatia for my budget.

For speakers, you are going to have to listen to them yourself and see
what you like. I'd personally put as much of your budget to speakers as
you can afford. At the lower price range, I would recommend looking into
Paradigm, Axiom, NHT. For a bit more money PSB, B&W are good brands to
look into.

But, it's your system and you are the one who has to like it - do some
listening first.

I bought Dali Concept 6. I'm very satisfied with them.(for now I just
connected them to my old hi-fi)

Thanks.

Now I'm looking for the right sound card.

"Bill Riel" wrote in message
t...
In article ws.com,
says...
In article , "Uzmi Novce I Bjezi!"
wrote:

I'm planning to buy receiver + floorstanding loudspeakers for hi-fi
(not
home cinema) purpose.


I would mostly listen to mp3's (all kinds) and radio.


I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.

If you're listening to MP3's and radio, you have no concept of quality
sound.

Disagree - at least *I* can't tell high bitrate, LAME encoded MP3's from
original source. I doubt many people (if any) could.

I'm with you on that but I don't think we'd manage to convince many people
round here!

Rich Wilson wrote:

I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.

If you're listening to MP3's and radio, you have no concept of quality
sound.

Disagree - at least *I* can't tell high bitrate, LAME encoded MP3's from
original source. I doubt many people (if any) could.

I'm with you on that but I don't think we'd manage to convince many people
round here!


Thirded... After some months of consideration and testing, I decided I
couldn't tell the difference between CD and 320kbps, LAME-encoded mp3s so
moved exclusively to the latter when I set up my media server about 18 months
ago

Stimpy wrote:

Rich Wilson wrote:

I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.

If you're listening to MP3's and radio, you have no concept of quality
sound.

Disagree - at least *I* can't tell high bitrate, LAME encoded MP3's from
original source. I doubt many people (if any) could.

I'm with you on that but I don't think we'd manage to convince many people
round here!



Thirded... After some months of consideration and testing, I decided I
couldn't tell the difference between CD and 320kbps, LAME-encoded mp3s so
moved exclusively to the latter when I set up my media server about 18 months
ago

Conbsidering that this is a 50% reduction in bit-rate over the
original and compression under the 40-60% range has basically
no meaningful lost data(see typical "lossless" compression
methods - they all clock in at about 320k MP3 size), plus
the fact that CD quality is much better than most peolpe can
hear, yes, 320K properly encoded will give you a recreation
of the original that a side-by-side test would be hard pressed
to reveal.

Lower than that, though, it gets plainly audable. Quickly.
128 is very "gritty" sounding, like FM radio, and 192 is
maybe like tape but without the wobble and hiss.

Thirded... After some months of consideration and testing, I decided I
couldn't tell the difference between CD and 320kbps, LAME-encoded mp3s

If you want to test, put some stuff with nice harsh harmonics thru the
compression. Sharp-edged waveforms with lots of high harmonics are a
good test of just how well the signal can be reconstructed.

A co-worker did this with a series of different encoders. Of that set,
LAME was one of the best for the pulse waveforms he was testing.
Unfortunately I don't remember where he posted the results of that
study; I'll try to dig that info out again.

"Bobo Morein" wrote in message
rdnews.com...
In article , "Uzmi Novce I Bjezi!"
wrote:

I'm planning to buy receiver + floorstanding loudspeakers for hi-fi (not
home cinema) purpose.


I would mostly listen to mp3's (all kinds) and radio.


I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.

If you're listening to MP3's and radio, you have no concept of quality
sound.

Any radio shack junk will suit.

Now scram!


Bob



Well said Bob,i wouldn't even advise him to go
to radio shack,just stick to his ****ty PC speakers.

Uzmi Novce I Bjezi! wrote:
Hy!



I'm planning to buy receiver + floorstanding loudspeakers for hi-fi (not
home cinema) purpose.



I would mostly listen to mp3's (all kinds) and radio.



I founded these receivers and loudspeakers:



Receivers:


snip list of receivers

If it's not home cinema you're after I'd look at a separate amp and
tuner. While the receivers are good value they'll include some stuff you
never use, and you may get better quality using, say, a Cambridge amp
and Denon tuner. Having said this there are plenty of old cheap
receivers on ebay - I bought one for about 50USD and it's fine. Buyer
beware and all that.



Loudspeakers:


snip list of speakers

Not familiar with any of that lot - try and listen to a range if you
can, and don't rely on reviews. It all depends on your room and taste.



What would you reccomend?

Dynaudio speakers, and possibly Mission for a cheaper quick fix. I'd
avoid budget floor standing speakers.



What sound card to buy (in range up to 80$)?


I think you're looking at one of Creative's offerings for that money -
seem fine to me with mp3s.

I'd go for an internal card to avoid the tangle of wires.



I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.


Well you should be thinking about a turntable and a valve amplifier then :-)


Thank you for your answers!

Pleasure, best of luck.

Rob

I prefer quality of sound over technical possibilities.


Well you should be thinking about a turntable and a valve amplifier then
:-)

Unfortunately, too much money for me ;-)

Yeah, I'd like to see the results versus a TDA2030 in a double-blind test.


Martin
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