Recent content by Entrigo

Good to know. I have no surround speakers anymore but I will try if I ever get some again (which I'd love to)

Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes. From their amazing debut album. View: https://youtu.be/JE-dqW4uBEE?feature=shared

Tbh I think I am fine with the Elex after all haha. It was more a thing of convenience, looking to combine amp and CD player...

Well I am a full paid member of Spotify and have been for years. I also get AM for free through a family account and occasionally pay for a Tidal subscription (a month here and a month there). Tidal is the best of the three in terms of SQ, but Spotify has just totally nailed the interface and...

Same but with records. Since upgrading CD player, I have taken most of my CDs out of wallets and put them back in brand new jewel cases and reunited them with booklets etc. And of course put them all lined up on display like it's 1999... I thought it would encourage me to listen to them more...

Haha yes indeed. As soon as I got it I bought a Pink Floyd DSOTM SACD and did a bit of a side by side between the SACD, I believe a 96/24 stream and the original first pressing on vinyl. Much to my chagrin, the SACD was the best of the three. 1s and 0s beat sonic waves beautifully carved in...

Leema Pulse IV got pretty slated by WHF in the 2019 review. Not that I take WHF as the ultimate truth, but I recall seeing very very few such low ratings...

I don't know. I had asked many people - a lot of whom on this forum - whether I could expect an audible improvement going from a Marantz CD6005 to a SA8005. It was a very mixed consensus, with more than one person saying - from their own experience having gone the same upgrade path - there...

Or there's people who like both depending on album, mood etc ;) !

I was in pretty much the same position. Really liked the sound of Spotify/Apple Music and occasionally Tidal through my Wiiim Pro Plus, and while I did enjoy playing CDs on my Marantz CD6005, the Wiim had the edge. Then fairly recently I upgraded to a SA8005 and the difference is substantial...

Just unpacked, plugged in and played the Phono1 for 10 minutes and - unsurprisingly, it blows all the other phono stages away, including the Aria (though who knows if it did not have that hum...) And although it was initially listed as MK1, confirmed as MKii after I queried it - as it said MKii...

Well I have moved back to the built in phono after selling a Simaudio Moon 110LP - and briefly after sending off its replacement Aria to Rega -and it's OK but a bit of a step down. Music loses a bit of sparkle, soundstage is smaller... Maybe something has to do with a capacitance mismatch. The...

Ah yeah the Fono is just a temporary measure, while the Aria was out for repairs and now returned. I have bought a Vertere Phono 1 which I will hopefully get tomorrow. Really looking forward to it. And ideally I would love to pair it with a Vertere Turntable but I cannot stand the sight of the...

Yeah no real need - hence the thread title. And as I might have mentioned, it'd be a while away - just wondering if a better amp would be needed to allow the turntable to properly stretch - whichever I'd go for, they would be at least twice the price of the Elex. And I guess as part of an...

Well, I think we are still talking about a pretty good quality "all in one", and as much as there would be some corners to be cut, I would expect the amplification element to be more than decent - and potentially better than a Rega Elex amp which cost a 3rd.. But the core of what you are saying...