Help me in the right direction

[n_brio]

Ym2000- > Did you use the Lumin T2 dac or the dac in C2600?

[nicoff]

Originally Posted by thyname

Stop messing around (and wasting money) with electronics until you buy better speakers. Even if you stay with B&W (803 D3 and up)

Agree that OP should concentrate on getting better speakers. That's where the biggest change will be.

[GSOphile]

Originally Posted by thyname

Stop messing around (and wasting money) with electronics until you buy better speakers. Even if you stay with B&W (803 D3 and up)

+1 Get the most important element in your system, the speakers, locked down first. Then you can start building out around them. 'Optimizing' around the weakest link in your system makes no sense. (The Hegel 590 is, by all accounts, a pretty darn good amp.)

[mcpaf76]

I had a set of those. They were my first high-end speaker, so to speak. I played a similar swap out Electronics game, chasing a sound quality that I never came close to achieving. Since then I've treated the room and I've had 3 other speakers and the sound quality is night and day with all of them from when I had the CM10s.

[n_brio]

I have now started to find parts so far i brought MC452 and Lumin T2 but what pre amp should i buy.

C2600 or C500T this i the same price used here, is the C500T better? i dont need the dac in C2600.

i can also but i used C1000C+T (not P) but that is almoast 2X the price of C500T is it worth it?

Speaker comes after this, im going to move first so at the moment i cant fit amati because of the depth of the speaker.

[W9TR]

It is an easy choice between the C2600 and C500C/T. Get the C500C/T if they are the same price.

As far as the difference between the C1000C/T and the C500C/T, that is difficult to tell. Some people who have owned both say the C500 sounds the same or better than the C1000. I don’t really know as I only owned the C500C/T. I did own a C2300 and the C500 sounded much better, especially the midrange.

I traded my C500 in on a new C1100 and am very happy with the improvement.