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I have a Cyrus set up with a streamer but to be honest I mostly use spotify premium sent to a pre DAC QX via USB which is great for every day use. Tidal is better sq however I prefer the spotify selections. Doing it this way will be loads better than your current set up and won't break the...

I would say a bit of both. Right now there is not a huge amount of Studio Master content out there and most of the material is at CD quality so normally I would buy the CD then rip it to my NAS and put it in a box as a back up.

I have heard great things about their new stereo 200 amp , g class hybrid delivering 200 watts; not heard it myself tho.

I have had the pmc twenty 22's for a year or so , r300 before, and IMHO they are really good for this sort of stuff and handle the complex treble without sounding muddled. You are right that sometimes the better the system is the worse the music sounds as it really highlights poor sound...

I have some of their twist speaker cable. It not very expensive and sounds great. The whole twist thing is a bit silly but it does keep them tidy.

I prefer RCA to optical. I find the optical to be a bit harsh but I do know some who prefer it. Your dealer should be able to let you do a home demo, if not buy on line and return the one you don't want. make sure you give each option a decent amount of air time as well as the usuall couple of...

The arcam bluray players are very good for CD's , not heard the new UDP411 but by all accounts its meant to be very nice

I would second the go for a Coax vote's.

I have a 8QX with some KEF r100's with music played soley from my Mac and I think its a fantastic little unit. I dont use the PSX-r in the set up but I do have 2 in my main set up and I have tested it with one of them when I first got it and it really helps bring out more from the unit, but as...

I have a interesting , well sort off depending on how dull your life is, experience with using wires more premium than a system deserved. Basically I got a load of chord signature speaker cable of ebay which was a bit more than I needed for the main set up so I got chord to cut it down and I put...

Sadly I dont have a terble or bass adjustment on my system. Tidal do a one month trial so before I tool the plunge with the more expensive service I had a evening , there was wine!, where using the same laptop to the same system I switched between all my fav tunes and decided that the Tidal was...

from a range point of view I don't think there is much in it however spotify has the edge on the collections and the discover section on spotify is better. Also tidal is £20 PCM so it's more expensive. Not wanting to start a tedious debate on the fact that nobody car hear any difference in music...

I have a load of CD rips and "hi-Res" downloads but I have to say these days I mostly use the Tidal streaming service for everyday music as the quality is kind of CD level , IMHO much better than Spotify, and there is a lot of choice on new stuff. I realise the OP was not asking about streaming...

I have a similar set up , pre dac QX, 2 x power in mono, PSX-r and pmc 22's as well as a smaller cyrus 8 QX , kef r100 and after a lot of different experiments I found the best for the type of music I like is the chord company signature

The best advise for anyone who is interested in HiFi and is reading this thread would be don’t let anyone tell you that you cant possibly notice any difference as there is no such thing as HiFi placebo, it much like hot and cold and no matter how hard someone attempt’s to make up an argument as...