Recent content by DCarmi

Sounds to me as though @Cricketbat70 is happy enough with the old Denon amp, in the environment being used. Why replace it? I'd just get a little Wiim Mini and do away with Bluetooth. I'm guessing that sound presentation in a warehouse is of less criticality, hence the Mini.

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I tend to rewatch stuff when in the Kitchen. It needs to be a program I m familiar with so I don't get too distracted and burn stuff! At the moment I am working my way through DS9. It does carry quite a few threads, so the story lines can vary without seeming too random and disconnected.

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It is annoying when they open up a new checkout at the supermarket and people behind you rush to be first. Noticeably, it is often older people are the worst behaved.

Given you listen to vinyl, I'd start by replacing the cartridge with something like an AT95ML. If you are happy with the Dual, then keep it. The 1219 is a bit of a classic. A cartridge upgrade will be a better investment than replacing the turntable, at least for now. Replacing the AV amp with...

I ordered my music centre, above, from a catalogue through a friend of my Mother's. One of those please wait 28 days to be delivered to someone else's house, sort of thing. When I got it and opened the box imagine my how I felt to find the needle was at a 45 degree horizontal axis to the...

My Mother had a Ferguson record player/radio with one of those needles that you flip over to choose for vinyl or shellac (78s). I used to play some of her LPs, which were mostly classical. My Brothers and I used to pick up records from Woolworths 50p bin. My first system I bought with money...

CD then Vinyl with Streaming way behind and mostly when on the go or in the car. Interestingly, I buy myself CDs but people prefer to give me Vinyl as presents, which is fine.

Not entirely. It is good at blocking X-Rays and gamma rays, though not 100% effective, but not terribly effective against high energy particles such as beta radiation.

Apparently there is an Xbox handheld coming out at the end of this year. Being built by ASUS based on the ROG Ally, but souped up. Apparently it will also support Epic and Steam libraries. I guess likely pricey, though.

It is what the DAC does with the bits, surely. In NOS DACs your argument may hold true but pretty every DAC has some form of over-sampling to tidy up the frequencies, artefacts etc. However, I'm no expert so feel free to ignore me. All I know is that my new-ish CD player sounds a bit...

When, suddenly all distractions vanish, I close my eyes and all I have is the music. Possibly the only other medium that can come close, is a good book.

I do disagree with this. Masimo had no background in Audio nor AV manufacturing. They clearly did not understand the business otherwise they would not have sold it for a third of what they paid for it. Harman do have this background and Samsung keep at arms length from the running of Harman...

I was thinking that HEOS might break free of its built-in and fairly closed shop approach and become more ubiquitous like e.g. Chromecast. However, that may not suit a Harman/Samsung walled-garden model or be an attractive licencing cash-cow.