Recent content by idc

Subboreal by The Ocean View: https://youtu.be/YpZo0pacLwQ?t=6

Neil Young is back on Spotify, so lots of Neil Young. Re-ac-tor, is such a good album.

I have no idea what my next purchase will be, as it will be only if anything breaks down and it cannot be repaired.

The only piece of hifi I have owned that was not very well-made, was a Rega Brio amp. It wobbled on its feet and the volume pot was hard to adjust. I had a Marantz all in one in the early 1990s,that never worked properly and it was returned. No matter what was done, one speaker would play...

It was in a department store in Berlin. I don't remember what the speakers were, but they were towers that fired upwards into cones. It was also not clear which of the various amps and CD players next to it on a rack were driving the speakers. In Glasgow, I got a demo listen to a top of the...

The person who I listen to music with and we go to a lot of gigs together, has a very expensive hifi system and it is amazing what sounds great on that can be flat on my headfi, and vice versa.

View: https://youtu.be/6Gt3gL_k7io

My perspective on hifi changed because of three specific events. The first was at a hifi shop, where, for fun, because it was already set up in the listening room, we put my B&W DM302 speakers that cost around £120 on the end of £10k plus Naim and it sounded staggeringly wonderful. That made me...

It's an old article, but I never saw it at the time. I studied a lot of hifi claims, looking for actual evidence from testing to verify those claims and found very little. On the list two stand out as evidenced. Number 1, running in, has been measured, but only with speakers. Number 8, AV power...

So sad. He got me into the different styles of heavy metal, my most recent gig was Gojira. He also sent me a CD of his band "Designs of Chaos" and they are still on Spotify, but average 4 listens a month. We need to boost that. View: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0engqJnIbqr3UWlUON5ipQ

I fell out of love with the constant need to upgrade. Occasionally I will buy a new set of headphones, as they get a lot of use. According to the Spotify wrapped in 2022, only 2% of users listen to more music than I do. My amp and DAC are reliable and unchanged, and changing laptop every few...

I must be one of the longer members ;) This was the first forum I joined after getting a computer and going online.

First time I have sat at the computer, ready for tickets going on sale. Ticketmaster crashed and the Hydro website, which goes to Ticketmaster anyway, froze and I could not get any seat selections, but after a couple of minutes, got two tickets to stand and finally, after 25 years, will get to...

The Shures are not as bright as the AKGs, which means switching between the Shures and the DT990s does not have the same shock. I am presently listening to some Killing Joke, which before sounded dreadful, but is now not bad at all. I had clearly got used to a bright sound, so anything other...

After a gap of not listening to the DT990 Pros, due to the purchase of some Shure SRH1540s, I find that after getting used to the sound of the Shures, the DT990s don't sound as bad as they did when swapping between them and my AKG K271s. They do not sound as flat as they did swapping them with...