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Best Hi Fi for around £300.00?

Night_Watchwoman
Night_Watchwoman Posts: 10 Forumite
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Can you recommend a dissent Hi Fi or Micro System for around £300?
Also if you could recommend a cheep retailer I would be grateful.
Thanks
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  • oldagetraveller
    oldagetraveller Posts: 3,653 Forumite
    Sorry, not helpful but you will not get HiFi for £300. All you'll get is a mediocre sound transmitter with tinny treble, muddled midrange and booming, out of control bass.
  • Fifer
    Fifer Posts: 59,413 Forumite
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    System 2 here looks pretty reasonable if you can stretch to £369, but no tuner unfortunately. It's not exactly hi fi, but it'll sound as good as anything else for the price.
    There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
    It's for the many and not the few. Be sure it's out there looking for you.
    In every town, in every state. In every house and every gate.
    Wth every precious smile you make. And every act of kindness.
    Micheal Marra, 1952 - 2012
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I 2nd what Fifer said. 'HIFI' is just not possible at that price
    :idea:
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    What about one of these, I really like mine, not hi fi but really versatile.

    Pure_Avanti_Flow_664.jpg

    DAB, FM, Wi Fi internet Radio and iPod dock.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Have a look at some TEAC and Denon mini systems in John Lewis, nearer to hi-fi than normal cheap (rather than cheep - which is the sound a poor hi-fi makes) rubbish.

    The system Fifer mentions is a very good buy, Richer Sounds are excellent.
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Id buy one of these ~
    http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=ONKY-CR525-SIL
    and these speakers ~
    http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=WHAR-9.1-CHE

    Youll need to buy some speaker wire (Or blag some for free ;))
    Id buy this ~
    http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=QED-SIL-ANNIV-XT-CAB
    And sit the speakers on blutack (trust makes ~ makes a HUGH difference), or on proper speaker wall racks
    :idea:
  • Fifer
    Fifer Posts: 59,413 Forumite
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    isofa wrote: »
    Have a look at some TEAC and Denon mini systems in John Lewis, nearer to hi-fi than normal cheap (rather than cheep - which is the sound a poor hi-fi makes) rubbish.

    This sort of thing?
    There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
    It's for the many and not the few. Be sure it's out there looking for you.
    In every town, in every state. In every house and every gate.
    Wth every precious smile you make. And every act of kindness.
    Micheal Marra, 1952 - 2012
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Fifer wrote: »
    This sort of thing?

    That looks quite good, I'd probably dump the speakers and cable for something a bit better, maybe some Mission or M-Ss but other than that, probably just what the OP is looking for.

    There are some better "separate minis" from Denon and TEAC (Reference) which I prefer, but they are pretty good systems for the price, I have one which is just under 1K with speakers and cabling, and it sounds much better than my old big separates system from the early 1990s.
  • DatabaseError
    DatabaseError Posts: 4,161 Forumite
    They're still making wharfedale diamonds?!
    My 1st decent pc (p75) speakers were active diamonds...doom sounded a bit good :)
    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Im not sure if theyre STILL making them to be honest.
    :idea:
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