Recent content by britain4

Got 2 power strips in my setup at the moment, a Clearer Audio filter for everything but the power amp, which is plugged into an unfiltered strip with an Isoplug in it Works nicely, small perceived improvements without the loss of dynamics it suffered with when all plugged into the Clearer Audio...

The “silencer” consists of a standard project box with a fancy sticker, 4 caps, varistor and diode and 4 resistors, on a very simple PCB you could just as easily build on strip board. Probably about £6 or 7 worth of parts in there, not quite a factor of hundreds but still a fair chunk of change...

I can just about make out tracks on both sides of that, is there a specific area of the board you're looking at? Nevertheless t's an interesting concept but surely cannot possibly make an appreciable difference to sound quality??

I'm sure a lot of the hifi stuff out there sells on pure FOMO powered by marketing hype. The idea of your speaker cables robbing you of that last 0.1% of performance, regardless of how good your system/cables are, is very powerful to a lot of people and it's all relative - a 2 grand set of...

Indeed - they even sell it terminated for about £40-50 for a 2m pair for the "12TC" type stuff instead of £800+ from the RA site. I'd never normally advocate buying fakes, but a lot of it doesn't include any Kimber markings. They claim to use all the same materials down to the insulation and...

Agreed, if anything's going to make a difference it'd be something like that. If anyone's feeling brave and wants to give it a try there are some "homages" to the 8TC and 12TC available from China for a fraction of the cost - claiming to be high purity copper in the same "varistrand"...

I got some Kimber 4PR from Russ Andrews, because science. Too expensive unless you buy it “off the reel” at £11 something a metre and terminate it yourself. The “theory” makes most sense to me out of any of the ones I’d looked at. They look nice if nothing else (the brown complements my 70s...

They’re the original model AirPods, not the 2nd gen or the Pro or anything, they’re totally fine in my ears but think my dad had some trouble with his. As far as I know they’re a similar fit to the EarPods that came with the phone so if they fit OK the AirPods should too. The Pros come with the...

AirPods aren't bad, keep them in my pocket when I'm out and about. Sound quality not the best but incredible convenience and ease of use

I don’t think any of my gear has ever “needed” it, it’s all well regarded stuff on its own, it’s just another hobby tweaking it as well as listening to it. There is the bonus that the price/performance ratio goes through the roof once you start getting into modding stuff, compared to spending...

Probably easier listing what hasn't been modified on it :laughing: it's got 2 clocks with their own transformers, full recap/upgrade, with big smoothing caps, all signal path caps/resistors, low noise regs+extra ones on all the ICs, opamps, unnecessary circuitry removed, loads of other little...

I’d not considered solutions like the Motu- that is an excellent suggestion and will take a close look at it. Will also take a look at the Khadas/March as I’m definitely into my DIY at the moment (lots of lockdown projects going on!) I actually use my Dragonfly Red with my SR80is as well and...

Thanks for that - that’s really helpful. Think I may go for an E30, definitely seems to tick all the boxes

I’m currently using the system in my signature. CDs and vinyl are all sounding lovely through it but I now need a solution for a USB DAC. The CD player is a heavily modified Marantz CD63 KI - if you’ve ever heard a fettled one you’ll know how good these can sound. Currently, I use an Audioquest...

I have a similar Atlas disc from years ago. It’s useful to put on repeat for new (or newly modified) components, and especially new speakers/headphones, but otherwise I don’t think it brings much benefit. Even then many would be sceptical about speakers “breaking in” (having heard the break in...