Recent content by darch

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    Question Thinking of buying a mini pc

    Gone for the Beelink, with an Amazon deal of £166.90 doesn't eat into the pension too much. Dave
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    Question Thinking of buying a mini pc

    Thank you, I'll have a look.
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    Question Thinking of buying a mini pc

    Thinking of buying a Beelink S12 mini pc, I use a computer for shopping, browsing the internet and playing music. I have a number of 24/96/192 downloads stored on external hd and play via VLC to my Topping DAC on A to B USB, does anyone see a problem with that on the Beelink. Thank you in...
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    The Audio Cable Fraud (With Ethan Winer)

    I know that power cable upgrades do work at least from a visual point of view, I bought my first LED screen TV 17 or 18 years ago, Sony with separate IEC mains cable, set it up with cable provided BBC 1 and ITV good picture, BBC 2 slightly veiled, ( this is pre digital 625 lines) channel 4...
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    Transports

    I use my blu-ray player as a transport via coax to a Topping E50 DAC, a reveiwer in a HI-FI magazine claimed his blu-ray player had better error corection than his CD player, true or not I don't know, but having moved some of my stuff around I'm thinking of trying my CD/SACD player as transport...
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    Unbalance vs Balanced

    I'm awaiting delivery of a new amp which has 3 sets of RCA inputs and 1 set of XLR balanced, the 3 RCA sets will be used for tuner, SACD player and phono amp, as my Topping E50 DAC has balanced TRS conection it seemed logical to me to get a set of TRS to XLR cables regardless of whether it...