Recent content by lindsayt

That's the trouble with an amplifier that's more like a computer motherboard than a traditional amp. The lack of smell is a good sign. But there's plenty of components that may have failed without burning. Fingers crossed for you that it's a cheap repair, or even as simple as replacing the...

Visits last month to the North West Audio Show and Owston were enjoyable and informative. Owston was inspirational too. The way forward for me is a DIY Frankenstein / blended whisky pair of speakers. An approach that I've been reading about for years on American enthusiast websites. What I'm...

There are too many examples of cable retail pricing bearing no resemblance to a reasonable material plus manufacturing costs plus a reasonable mark-up cost. With the discrepenacy being explained by research costs. It's a cable! Or marketing costs. OK for customers happy to pay for the...

Double check that 6.3 a slow blow are the correct type for your model of amplifier and replace with the exactly correct fuse type. Try powering your amplifier on again - possibly connected to 8 ohm resistors and not your speakers and see if the fuses blow again. If they do, investigate. Does...

The price seems to have gone up a lot since Hi-fi+ reviewed what appears to be (more or less) the same DAC in 2015 for £17,950. It'd be interesting to compare it against a £5 ebayed DAC with a £40 linear power supply.

Most cost effective manufacturer is: You! SET amps are as simple as amplifiers get. Simple circuits. Point to point wiring. If DIY really isn't your cup of tea some other manufacturers of note: Coincident. Their best sounding amplifier, the 300b Frankenstein, is not their most expensive...

The Pioneer 959's look like a great choice of speakers to go with the SA-8800 II. Especially when you see the price that they normally sell at. Let us know what you think of them when you get them. Did you buy the SA-8800 at a pleasantly low price?

Yes it was ad hominem. Here's the online defintion of "ad hominem": adverb: ad hominem; adjective: ad hominem 1.(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. Saying that someone is "still a *******" in response to them expressing a...

That article include the following quote from Rod Elliot: "I describe the SET amp as an "effects unit" rather than a hi-fi amplifier, since it fails to meet even the most generous definition of hi-fi in all significant respects." This is the sort of nonsense trotted out by arch objectivists or...

That is an ad hominem personal insult from Daveh75. It is totally out of order and has no place on this forum.

People like Nick Gorham AKA Lurcher300b AKA Longdog Audio have been designing and making great sounding valve amplifiers for years. I am happy to admit that I know nothing about the internals of valve amplifiers compared to enthusiasts like him. When I asked him how he knows so much about them...

No, strictly speaking in engineering and accounting terms the bill of materials is the list of components that make up a product from a manufacturing point of view. Therefore R&D and software development should not be included. Just about every amplifier ever made has "bespoke electronics"...

They're not. Hence gamekeeper turned poacher.

What you say about the sum of the parts and software is true. But in post #52 to which I got challenged for making stuff up I did specifically say less than £400 in parts in a £400 case. The software doesn't count as "parts". Just as it doesn't in a PC. I've included the cost of the parts for...

Same thing. Maxing out the power supply on each channel. Phono stages too can benefit from dual mono power supplies.