Recent content by amcluesent

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...

>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!

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

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

>am a hi fi fan going back to the seventies< Your hearing will be past its best by now. :?

Geyt her indoors a new vacuum

Audio Analogue Paganini 24/192 REV2.0 and iPhone 4S (both off t'Bay)

I'd buy a house with a shoe-box shaped music room, giving ideal accoustics

>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...

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.

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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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...

>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...

>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...