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Don't be so cynical, this technique could produce striking results during a thunderstorm!

lol, I'd happily joke along with you with that example!

This should be a great tool for people to find out for themselves whether different DAC chips sound different. A much better way to learn rather then being told or even mocked for wanting to know. The griping about this product by some people is pathetic. Hopefully, the outputs are matched though.

The only time I would consider doing this is for tonearm wire with cotton insulation

That could be a blanket answer for this whole thread. Some people still prefer physical media.

OK, I see what you mean. True, although MDs appear to last far longer than cassettes and you can still pick up plenty of blank MDs from Japan. The machines are more likely to fail before the media.

As are the ageing of the MD player/recorders, unfortunately. The lack of pre-recorded media doesn't worry me so much, as I generally use MD as a recorder.

Zero interest in cassettes, please bring back the MiniDisc instead.

I totally agree with you, the remote you ended up with looks gorgeous. Hopefully, they will become more common. But for any Topping owner who doesn't like their awful, short ranged generic remote, that Aliexpress remote is an easily programmable replacement.

No knob, but I bought this learning remote last year. It's a solid piece of Aluminium and is far better than the Topping remote that it has replaced. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003329156377.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.77.1d371802rwVxtO

Thanks, I will try doing that

I just bought the E50 and it's an improvement over the original Khadas ToneBoard. I didn't think I'd be able to hear the difference between the two?

I had a friend who was into these cables, we did do #1 with genuine Audioquest Sky cables against a pair bought on Aliexpress. It wasn't a double-blind test, but we couldn't hear any difference. I couldn't convince him to cut open his genuine cable though, lol.

I went to one of those Nordost cable demonstrations at a hifi store. The Nordost guy played his cables from the cheapest upwards, each time a vague improvement could be heard by most people there. I asked him to play the cheapest cable again when he reached his most expensive cable (Valhalla?)...

Note that the Mitsubishi aircon to get is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, they're a different company from Mitsubishi Electric.

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (1984) 1980s drums and keyboards and a great chorus

Bob Dylan - Most of the Time (1989) One of Dylan's best songs from his best album of the 1980s

TISM - Greg! The Stop Sign (1999) The greatest Aussie live band of the 1990s, I'm torn between this and "He'll Never Be An Old Man River"

Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway (1998)

Happy Rhodes - Come Here (1986) A vaguely-Kate Bush sounding American artist with a four-octave range who was barely noticed until the 1990s.