Recent content by Devondave

Hi I have just uploaded some of the technical specification and Bryston material about my Pre and Power Amps onto my blog, hope it is of interest. Sorry I don not have a flicker account or similar. Dave http://www.hifiideas.com/about-me/

Hi David thanks for that, been a long time in building up to that system about 12 years to be precise from first elemnets in that picture to how it looks in total. I am tempting fate by borrowing some Chord Company Tuned Array XLR interconnects soon, and am expecting to be sorely tempted to...

Was unable to work out how to paste a picture in sorry, will need help or otherwise just look on my blog, the option here seems to be to put a url in rather than upload from your pc?

Hi not sure how to upload a picture here about to try but if that does not work my blog site has my pictures http://www.hifiideas.com/about-me/

Dave, with respect, your post is myth perpetuating not busting. There is only one measure of performance with regards digital sound quality and that is audible transparency. This can be achieved with a £100 DAC. Once this had been acheived, you cannot improve any further. It is worth noting...

Hi any possible rule breaking was purely accidental for which I apologise if people drew that conclusion. my article does now actually suggest using Meridian and Arcam main dealers, the adverts are there to give an indication on what people might pay, so if the dealer is asking more do haggle...

So some myth busting...All Digital Sources are of equal quality...Well actually they are not. An iPod, uses Apple Loss Less files, which are not fully loss less, so some quality will be lost, you will on comparison notice a slightly compressed sound to your CD. Next up is a PC with WAV Loss...

Hi My name is Dave and I am a Hi Fi addict, there said it......well aren't we all Hi Fi addicts on here? I have been buying HiFi for around 38 years now and after more system upgrades than I care to think of have ended up in my own Hi Fi Heaven with the following system. How do I know the...

Hi I would still recommend having a good listen to a number of DAC's as although a good pair of speakers will make a difference, a poor front end will get shown up. Personally I found using a good DAC such as my Meridian 566 to put a DVD through rather than a DAC inside the Denon DVD made a...

Hi There are some real bargains around these days on DAC's as they are becoming more popular. I would definately recommend looking at either the Arcam rDAC or the Meridian Explorer USB DAC. Both are under £300 and please connect either of them with a good USB cable, such as The Chord Company...

Hi I notice that your HP media centre has a coax output? well had you thought of looking at a second hand standalone DAC such as the Meridian 566? I have owned one for approaching 15 years and the sound from it is so detailed, musical and involving. Currently you can pick them up for around...

Honest answer, YES To those who poor scorn on this can you actually afford to buy one? as it seems to be the anti brigade are fuelled by lack of ability to buy one or their systems are just very low level. I am a high end system owner taken 35 years to get to my system as it is now and the...

Speaker stands can make a huge difference Also worth a look at your cables. Good interconnects and speaker cable work wonders Also look at mains leads and if you cant swap them put M&K plugs on sounds daft but it really works. Cheers Dave

The DB1i's are true monitors and are good with all types of music. Put them on good stands and please throw away the awful links and buy a small amounts of extra speaker cable and make jumpers from that. Would recommend Chord Odyssey with them Cheers