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I also got the same response, I told them I intend to buy half a dozen albums. Very Annoying!

Like yourself, I use a sonos connect into my DAC. It's quick and easy, and you can start playing music in about 20 seconds. If however, I am sitting down, and relaxing to music, I prefer to use Jriver Media center through the computer. I'll connect a USB to my DAC for asynchronous data...

To be honest, I think its more limited run cd eps and live versions that i noticed, rather than full length studio albums. Two of laura marlings live albums, a couple of Ben Howards ep's. All of which cannot be bought on CD anymore, are some examples that I found.

I think this will be too expensive for me as a streaming service. As I already pay for spotify, and this does exactly what I want. But for downloads of flacs it looks great. Ive found many albums and eps which were limited in production, and can only be found now in mp3.(or very expensive on...

Searching for new music online. It seems that many shorter EP albums are only available in compressed mp3 and vinyl formats. I will always try and source a physical CD of a record, than buy an mp3 album. I would imagine that it's cheaper to produce a CD than a vinyl record, so why not produce...

Looks interesting. As it does not include a DAC, I would hope the price to be more reasonable than that of the current crop of streamers that have a built in DAC.

Haven't had a chance to hear the missions yet, as my local dealers do not stock them. I have LS50's with a high current rotel power amp, and they respond very well to this at all volumes.

I own the Dacmagic Azure (for my PC system), and like you, I bought mine used at £100, for that money it is very good value. I believe that DAC's have moved on a lot since the orignal Dacmagic, I used to own an rDAC, which I rate higher than the Azure. In my opinion, the new irDac is at a...

Add the new rotel RA 1570 to your list. A beast of an amp! It would be a great match for your cm8s. (Same parent company) Its a bit more than the other two you have listed, but does include a DAC. It also has the av pass through mode.

Here goes; 1 Daft Punk – Random Access Memories 2 Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle 3 Biffy Clyro – Opposites 4 James Blake – Overgrown 5 Disclosure – Settle 6 CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe 7 Johnny Flynn – Country Mile 8 AlunaGeorge – Body Music 9 Django Django – Django...

Audiolab M-Dac £599 Arcam irDAC £399 Has anybody heard both of theses DACs? I want to buy a new DAC, my budget can stretch to both of these models. Is the m-dac a higher quality DAC? or is the extra cost because of the digital preamp and headphne amp? Thanks

Alt-J AlunaGeorge Beirut Chvrches Daft Punk (again......) Django Django HAIM James Blake Johnny Flynn Of monsters and men

Ditto above. Just enjoy the music :dance: I use a spotify a lot thought my sonos/rdac and pc/rdac and I find the music quality pretty good. If I sit and analyse a track on spotify and then switch to cd quality flac asynchronous straight afterwards I can 'at times' hear a small 'difference'...

I know that the X300A speakers for designed for close desk listening. Due to a change in living circumstances I am going to have to have my LS50s in a bedroom, probably on a desk as computer speakers I know this is not ideal, but is there anything I can do to make them sound great? Full or...

Hifi systems always sound best when fed a line level analogue input. I have on occasion used my phone or iPad as a source, but the sound quality is poor compared to sonos or dac analogue output. As you are using a variable headphone output from a tablet, you will be making volume adjustments...