Recent content by jacobmorrison

Interesting thread. TVs are a product of their time. In another 10 years we may be looking back at today's OLED TVs as museum pieces. What was great for the time, rather than great by todays standards, is the question. For my money the best example of this was the Pioneer KRP-500M. A 50" pure...

I used to sell Matsui TVswhen I worked for Currys in the early 90s. The 1420 was standard, the 1440 had remote control. The 1480 had teletext!

Can vouch for the MX DAC. I've had one for a few years now. The original RRP was £699 so if £499 is the new street price it's a bargain. I did find a tendency towards glare if used with silver QED cables. Since swapping to Atlas Equator I've been delighted!

Thanks for your replies. The site's spam filter blocked me after I posted the question and it's taken until now for me to be unblocked! I will have a listen to the next level kit to see what i've been missing. I'd love to hear the clearaudio and VIP decks but there are no outlets in manchester...

I love vinyl, I ways have done, but the frustration with the medium has had me on the upgrade path for years in search of better. I'm now on my fourth deck, the pro-ject in my signature, with a good cartridge and sublime phono stage, and I mostly love the way it sounds. But, and it's a big but...

I did the same upgrade on the same turntable. The pitch stability was much improved making vocals and pianos in particular sound more natural. It also tightened up the bass and reduced the rumble by a surprising amount. I was sceptical and purchased it really for the convenience of the speed...

I was in a similar situation in my small lounge. I'd already won the TV positioning round (it now sits in the middle of the wall) but was jealously guarding the Monitor Audio BR5 floorstanders at the front and BR2 on stands at the back. She would often call these an eye-sore, and to be fair...

The performance of a TV can be measured and true set by set comparisons made. It's not subjective or according to taste as with hifi. Loading TV reviews with meaningless terms tells you nothing really. The recent review posted on this site for the Samsung UE40JU7000 contained: "well-judged...

Just to add my own experience with the pro-ject, I had my own 2xperience with the lid on for a year and dust still gets in through the gaps at the bottom. Pro-Ject recommend that their turntables be used without the lid and I think it looks better without anyway. As long as you're happy to clean...

Nine Inch Nails took this approach with their latest album Hesitation Marks. Purchasers of the download could choose which master they wanted, a wide dynamic range and overall quiter audiophile mix, or a louder flatter mix described as the CD/iTunes version...

The information is not audible and therefore irrelevant. In the broadest terms. There is a very simple experiment that virtually anyone can do. Find a good quality hi-res download that you like. Down sample to Cd standard, 16 bit, 44.1 Khz. After carefully level matching the two files...

I'd definately agree with that. Some pressings I've bought recently such as First Aid Kit's "The Lion's Roar" have been superb. Others such as Smoke Fairies have been very poor with loads of surface noise and distortion. My older vinyl fom the 80s/90s was much more consistent. Just being on...

It's not one of the highlighted players but the complete product list is at the bottom giving a link to: http://www.oppodigital.co.uk/ecommerce/product/BDP-103EU.aspx

Agreed. The BBC is the envy of the world. The constant BBC bashing led by the daily mail is utterly depressing and self-defeating. Anyone who thinks that they shouldn't have to pay because they don't watch BBC content should think about the shows they grew up with and how their own lives were...

I wouldn't class the Q701s as clinical, but they are particularly neutral and open. Reviews on other sites all seem to agree that these cans do not place any tonal emphasis anywhere, they have an unusually linear response, so I would have thought they would be ideal for your musical tastes as...