Recent content by JFC

Some great equipment there. Hang on to all of it. Consider a good rack speaker/isolation platforms if you don’t already own. Think Townshend Audio here. Passive filtration for your mains. Fidelity Audio make some quality mains filters. (Made to order) all within your price bracket. One-off the...

British audio should be proud of its history, it's industry and it's heritage. Today I still support it. Sadly though in my experience certain makes of British built cd playes, (and I have owned many) while having great design principles have proven to be generally unreliable. I, to a certain...

Absolutely! The only good vinyl record would be one that's never been played. Just one play and there's wear. --- The very first cd I purchased back in 85' is now 40 years old, and sounds as good and exactly the same as the day I bought it. --- Steve Miller Band-- Italian XRays one of the first...

Totally agree with you!

Sorry, what has the selling of vinyl and UK inflation figures got to do with sound quality? I was in HMV Bond Street the other day-- the price of Vinyl was insane! Nobody was buying it! There were plenty of people buying cds though.

3j Well said also! Those early Philips cd players were good! Happy memories of my cd104 and 960 players.--- My biggest criticism of today's loudspeakers on the market are the aesthetics, until you really go into the higher price brackets. They just lack that quality look! (Cheap materials...

I totally agree with you that cd sounds better than vinyl, which is incredibly overrated! And I grew up with it in the 60s & 70s! Cd replay has actually come along way since the early days---Denon for example, with their creditable Alpha Processing! DSP room correction has been the game...

I would say without fail the best peice of equipment I've ever purchased is my DSPEAKER X4 room correction processor. This also has full parametric eq built in with Q adjustment, tilt controls and many other features. Parametric eq works spectaculary well, and that's what I use to get the most...