Recent content by amcluesent

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    Young(ish) Audiophile - how to look after your hearing?

    Never switch on kit/start playing with ear-buds in your ears in case it starts at max vol. Whenever you are exposed to enviromental noise wear ear-protectors or ear-plugs (such as on aircraft, at a race track, using power tools, shooting) Don't take work in factory-floor environments Get...
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    CD players, Streamers and DACS

    >99% of my music library is only in digital format, in a hard disk< I'd look at a 2nd hand Sonos ZP80, it's DAC is OK so you can try it or S/PDIF into the amp. Bear in mind the amp is a limiting factor at £299!
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    Brennan or otherwise!?

    Rip to Apple lossless, get an Airport Express and connext optical out to S/PDIF input on AV Receiver
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    Brennan or otherwise!?

    Rip to Apple lossless, get an Airport Express and connext optical out to S/PDIF input on AV Receiver
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    new member needs help with disappointing sound

    >am a hi fi fan going back to the seventies< Your hearing will be past its best by now. :?
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    What have you bought anything the better half has fumed with?

    Geyt her indoors a new vacuum
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    What were your hifi and electronic gadget purchases of 2013?

    Audio Analogue Paganini 24/192 REV2.0 and iPhone 4S (both off t'Bay)
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    If You Were To Start Again....

    I'd buy a house with a shoe-box shaped music room, giving ideal accoustics
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    Demographics for particular brands of hifi?

    >Audio Analogue; Bit left field here in the UK. Rarely mentioned but covering the mid to high end. - White collar buyers that feel the need to be different?< How very dare you! :) Audio Analogue and Sonus Faber are the brands people arrive at when they want to listen to music, not tinker with...
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    what gives the biggest upgrade ?

    CD players still have a role, my Audio Analogue Paganini 24/192 REV2.0 playing a CD will best my Squeezebox Transporter playing the same CD after ripping to FLAC.
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    FLAC playing

    Apple TV resamples everything to 48Khz and you really want to keep bit perfect. >I would like to stream FLAC audio files to this system what equipment do I need< The new QED uPlay Stream at £150 is well priced for a 24/96 capable wi-fi streamer, just connect to a line-in on the amp. You'll...
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    Hi-Res music sources 192 kb/s

    http://www.naimlabel.com/
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    Connect new stereo amp to AV receiver (Advise welcome)

    Off the top of my head, the only really good quality stereo amp with inbuilt music streamer and a fixed-gain input to integrate with multi-channel AV is NaimUniti 2 Would certainly need careful audtion, Naim and Tannoy aren't often seen together. NaimUniti 2 totally blows OP's budget, of...
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    Connect new stereo amp to AV receiver (Advise welcome)

    >When I play music I mainly play FLAC < Are you already using the inbuilt music streamer on Marantz SR6007? It should be OK streaming FLAC from a NAS which us running a good music server like Minimserver. To meaningfully improve on the Marantz SR6007 just for stereo, you'll need to get a...
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    New to Digital Hi-fi

    >connect a networked Apple TV< Apple TV resamples everything to 48Khz. Seems a shame to carefully rip CDs to lossless, then have the cheap player do a fugly 44.1 to 48 resample. Plus the Apple TV will need iTunes 11 running somewhere on the network. Synology do a work around of an iOS app that...
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