Recent content by AndrewH13

I would add that I once bought the famed Arcam Black Box DAC to add to my Mission CD player. Didn't hear very much difference or improvement. I have now bought the Rega DAC and on the end of my Sonos, it has transformed it:bounce:

Was about to say the same as John above. Arcam has never struck me as clinical, more mellow and rounded. My Tag gear was often referred to as clinical, I preferred to see it as transparent:)

Great write-up of using MCCAC. Having about 10 years ago used the Tag AV32 room correction and ETF5/RoomEQ programs on a laptop, it does though seem rather basic in only having 8 frequencies to adjust? With the TAG we were able to adjust every frequency and the program would apply 8 filters...

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Hi, Latest mag refers to page whathifi.com/readerpanel but this page does not exist.

Was most impressed by a demo of the Rega dac and bought. At home it's even better with my Sonos playing Flacs (and mp3s). While I'm not saying it equals my Roksan turntable, its certainly in the same ball park and gives an organic natural sound to digital files. I think it's goodbye to my Tag...

I rip CDs using dBPA to ALAC for ipod/iTunes but then use it to convert from ALAC to FLAC for playing from NAS to Sonos system/Rega DAC. Is this giving same quality as if I had converted to FLAC initially?

PureFi Anywhere has been in my bathroom for 2 years. Great sounding but remote dreadful, rarely works without constant pressing and the onboard keys had a brainstorm last week. Volume kept turning up to max on their own while I was in the bath! Repeat and Random constantly flicking on ipod...

hammill:[Don't you just hate racists who say if something is made in China, it must be rubbish And this racist in a hifi store! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBe7-6rw4M

Sceptical of exaggerated claims for stands, digital cables etc ..... then I went on a WHF listening test...... and their wooden equipment stand changed the whole voicing of the systems we were listening to, so much so that other higher-priced equipment sounded lesser (to all 3 of us) on a...

chebby: Has Will fallen on his sword or joined a monastery yet? I expect Will will be enjoying his player he has had for many months!

Just to clarify, with the hardware mod you can update to every Firmware from Oppo including Beta and Experimental they have released on their website.

hammill:NayTyson: hammill:Ginder:What about the Oppo 83?Another £130 and out of stock Not so pricey if you just modify the firmware So that just gives you multi-region dvd or is that multi region Blu-Ray also? DO you have to preform tricks on the remote everytime you use it? Gives both...

Yes, but I added in same post 'glad I bought one months ago' so was hardly going to be upset at Finally seeing blog/review! Clare Newsome:AndrewH13: "Jumping the gun??? Oh that's rich" It really was a joke!!! Cant believe you both took it serious especially as I added I have one from months...

Jonathan_E: I'm fairly sure that AndrewH's jumping the gun comment was made with tongue firmly embedded in cheek, chaps. That's how I read it anyway. (Nice button pushing, though AndrewH... ) Thanks Jonathan! Blimey!!!