£2.200 to spend on upgrade but where to start

Hi Jay, and welcome to the forum.

IMO Your should listen to the streaming solutions from Linn, Naim and Cyrus, all of which sound different.

You have to decide if you like a built-in amp or go with a separate one from a different brand. The brand of streamer/amp you like, will then determine the speakers to shortlist.

The best thing you can do is to start going to listen to your various options and see where your preference takes you. Amps from Creek, Musical Fidelity, Leema, Sugden and Electrocompaniet are worth checking out; as well as speakers from Kef, PMC, Proac, Spendor, Sonus Faber and Harbeth.

The secret is trying as many different brands as possible, before making up your mind.

Thank you. I want to get a amps cd player an streamer an speakers in one hit. Also heard a rotel set up is good with monitor audio an Cyrus is good with b&w 

I feel I have a challenge on my hands lol 

Sorry, mate, but CNO you have it the wrong way round. Speakers first, look at spending half of your budget on them. Then choose an amp that matches your speakers. Streamers, wouldn't know, got an AE myself. I believe there's not a heap of difference between them.

I'd get a SB Touch/Logitech and carry on from there

regards

Any you would recommend mate 

That really very much depends ...

regards

Possibly, possibly not.

The chances are he will go with a built-in amp, and they do sound quite different....so it's not unreasonable to find the one you like and get speakers that work with it. It can work the other way round though.

The Cyrus stuff is brilliant but I think you might find it a bit on the lean side with your musical tastes and you might also find it is a passport into constantly adding extra boxes for ever more.  Really you need to do some auditioning to find out what suits your tastes.  A good dealer who can demonstrate a well set-up Cyrus system AND something quite different sounding would be the best place to start.  You can then take it from there.

Thanks guys. I'm from bedfordshire. Making the trip to hifix an audio affair Friday n have a bit of Saturday too 

Matthew has a good point about Cyrus being lean for your tastes, however, if you partner it with Dynaudio (any range DM 2/6, 2/7 Excite) they'll give you solid bass. Or alternatively, audition, audition, audition...

Nad, Creek, Arcam, Marantz, Roksan Kandy all spring to mind.

How about new rotel set up 

If you want to go the Cyrus route (and obviously as below,  I would recommend it); seriously give some thought to some decent PMC speakers. Despite your budget, if it were me I would go for a better amp i.e. an 8 series; ex-demo/second-hand an option?

Re. the speakers. As reggae is named, might stand mounts plus sub be a bit better the floorstanders ?

Most floorstand speakers in the price bracket would go as low as a sub ?

Well. I could go for a bigger amp but. Which monitors would u say. Will I notice a huge difference from my bx2 n denon n7 mini unit lol 

I'm not going to give an opinion on what kit you should buy, as that is pointless - I have no idea how you like music to sound or what your listening environment is like.  What I will give my opinion on is that you should concentrate on finding speakers that give the sound you want in your room (which is going to mean a home dem) along with an amp with enough power to control them, and to spend the lions share of your budget on the amp/speaker combination.  For the source, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a NAS and something like a Squeezebox touch - if you rip all your cd's to the NAS you won't need a cdp.