I went yesterday, there were quite a lot of people attending, but not so many that it felt crowded. Access to various rooms was good as a result. Plenty of decent stuff on display.
Having visited every room and listened in all of them, the standouts for me were:
- KEF Blade 2s being run off a...
1 pair Bronze BR1 in Black Oak - £90, great condition
1 pair Bronze BX1 in Rosemah - £100, small chip on top edge of one speaker, otherwise excellent condition
1 pair Bronze BXFX in Rosemah - £120, excellent condition
1 Bronze BX Centre in Black Oak - £100, great condition
All boxed. Selling as...
Snap. I use one for switching between my DAC (XLR out) and AVR (RCA out) into my Neumann active speakers (XLR in). The feel of the rotary is direct with very positive detent during selection. Ground loops are evident but can be handled by the speaker setting switches. if anyone knows of an...
Quite frankly, stunning performance. It makes One wonder what the establishment has been doing all these years....other than sitting on their laurels of course.
It's threads like this that show how great Internet forums can be. OP has an issue and everyone piles in to fix it with no barbed comments or vitriol in sight. Keep up the good work people.
I guess traditional in the UK would be mulled wine or mulled cider (I have bottles of both ready to go), but I also have bottles of fizz, red, white, rosé, Perry, cider, beer and even some dessert wine for when the time is right.
I had the sofabaton, and it worked OK, but the buttons were heavy and clicky and started to lose responsiveness after 18 months.
I then bought a logitech elite with hub secondhand from ebay. Much better. And I can link it to various other IOT systems. So it controls my TV, AVR, 2 satellite...
Stream 3 looks interesting. And reading one of the other threads with the designer commenting, it looks like they know what they're up to.
Also, the SHD thread has put me off the minidsp...
so out of curiosity I just went to the Review Index and filtered by DAC and viewed the last 50 by date (most recent entry as of today was 16th Aug).
18 of the last 50 DACs are either Topping or SMSL (Loxjie and Sabaj included).
Now I'm as happy to see 120db SINAD numbers as the next person...
Oh I understand that completely, and ensuring that your new components perform as well/better than previous ones is a valid task. What I'm pointing out is the fallacy of chasing better performance when it's totally inaudible to the consumer.
We do it in Automotive Engineering. we could make...
....but do they really? If everything Amir is measuring is inaudible then attempts to improve beyond that are just unnecessary expenditure in terms of time, finance and resources. It's just vastly diminishing returns now.
I would humbly propose that the number of DACs from the likes of Topping...