Recent content by datay

just take songs you know well, unless you own and know well any of the recommendations made.

Yes, QED are reported as poor by various people. It was a two or three year hype bonanza for WHT when they came out, they then moved on to Chord Carnival Silverscreen, which you hear nothing about these days. At low cost, you'd do far better with the oft-recommnded, vfm and no nonsense Van...

Someone called Golden Ears starts a topic on "mains cables, interconnects and speakers" - surely, no more needs to be said.

The new Spendor A3 might be an option, as they are pretty small and will help with the resonance. A5 could be a great option. Or the SA1's on their stands. If you like Spendors of course! All suggested so far are great, you really need to hear them, preferably driven by the Cyrus 8 amp, at a...

"No, I've never met a nice South African, and that's not bl00dy surprising, mun, cos there a bunch of arrogant EDITEDs with no sense of humor."

+1 to this and other recommendations to try new amp first; you need more than a Cyrus 8Vs2. I have mentioned before that I am using a Belles 150A v2 dual-mono power amp (125W into 8Ohms) with my Twenty.22s in a 4m x 5.5m room, and the bass is beautiful, I listen to mainly eletronic music and...

I have bought several releases (electronica/techno) in the past year that turned out to be 24/44.1 or 96 once I'd downloaded them (sometimes they were advertised as such sometimes not, a couple were albums, a couple EPs). Probably the only remotely well-known of these was Autechre's Exai on Warp...

The WAF goes through the roof as the cream also doubles as an incredible lube.

aka Unilet in New Malden

Wise, maybe, but now can't help dreaming of a Heed dac which I can't have... :cry:

What an excellent post - if only more posting on hifi forums were like this! :clap: I have owned PMC Twenty 22s since November last year, and this is spot on, along with what others have said on the thread who have heard the speakers. I already owned a bel canto PRe3 and Belles 150A v2 power...

I don't know the player; might well make a difference but it won't be large. You are best off getting to a shop where you can audition, or failing that, buying online where you can return over a 30-day period. Some (few) online dealers loan them out. If you have other digital equipment - tcv...

"Sony cd player" is not enough information to go on, and a dac may give you a different presentation but whether it's an improvement is up to you to decide. Of course, outboard dacs wouldn't exist if most people didn't feel they represented an improvement in sound (along with additional digital...

Ok, that's what I needed to know! You must have posted while I was writing and mine appeared in between :oops:

Who seems to have missed the point? Since your post followed mine, I was replying to the quoted text; the point being that most people consider their DACs to be better quality than their blu-ray players, and the PCM stream is 24/96. It is what I am doing with the recent Hawkwind Warrior at the...