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My A90 (15 months old) had no signs of life today when I tried to turn it on. I couldn't hear the usual click of the relay when I turned it on. In case it's useful for anyone else, the fuse (inside the holder next to the power input on the back of the A90) had blown. I swapped the blown fuse...

Apologies for reviving this thread but I was just wondering whether it's slightly crazy of me to think about buying now in 2021 my first Blu-ray player and my first Blu-ray discs ? I watch streaming services on a 27" iMac including the Criterion Channel and Mubi. I do have a small collection...

Welcome to ASR! It depends what I'm playing: - Roon for local files and Qobuz streaming. - The Amazon Music and IDAGIO Mac native apps for streaming from those services. - Safari for streaming from Primephonic which doesn't have a native Mac app. Hopefully Roon can support more streaming...

There's nothing which can be done about not putting products on shelves or online but maybe what a shop can do is not to actively promote them. I have in mind two dealers who I recently dealt with on the phone - one tried to upsell me to silver plated cables (with nonsense about it sounding...

I think it's OK for a store to stock what to me are audiophoolery products so long as they don't try to actively sell or promote them based on pseudoscience claims. Some people will really want these products. It's their money so perfectly fine and so why shouldn't the store sell them these...

Asset finance lawyer (cruise ships, oil tankers, ferries, LNG carriers etc). My interests wane on and off over time but have included: * Computers (starting with a Commodore PET and Apple ][; dial-up modem BBS's back in the day; Linux from version 0.11; functional programming; etc) * Amateur...

Due to the pandemic and saving money by not travelling etc and luckily still being able to work from home, I've gone from nothing to what is for me at least an endgame home office headphone setup (Intel NUC as a Roon core, Topping D90 / A90 and Meze Empyrean) plus a nice portable solution for...

I'm trying to understand why someone (and it seems like a lot of people) have more than one headphone for the same use case ? For myself so far, I've ended up with the following: * Open back headphone - home * Lightweight headphone - out and out or on holiday * In-ear monitors with noise...

I think he mentioned in his videos that he used to be in the audio industry but now works as a school physics teacher which may explain the strange mix you mention! Overall, he seems to me to give good advice (e.g. spend your money on the speakers rather than a DAC) and I like his style.

I'm just concerned that dust can get in (either through the grille on the outside or the inside), stick to the driver and may not be easily shifted by compressed air? The Empyrean seems more exposed than other open back headphones which I have (e.g. LCD-1)...

For me, the problem with those stands is that the insides of the ear cups are exposed at an angle which makes it easy for dust to settle inside (which is particularly a problem if the drivers are exposed through a grille or mesh without having, e.g., a fabric protecting them).

I just realised that my new headphones (Empyrean) don't fit well at all on my headphone stand (shown above in this thread). Due to the headphones' sockets being lower down, the cable coming out of the right hand side plug is pushed right against the headphone stand - not good at all! So I have...

I'd want my Dream DAC (i.e. each unit manufactured) to have been certified by an independent laboratory as meeting stringent measurement criteria for the DAC. In other words, sort of similar to what happens for fine Swiss watches - https://www.cosc.swiss/en

I have this one from a German company called Glorious: