Recent content by Lord Tarquin Portly

If it were me, I'd look at getting the Naim amps serviced. They were superb amps in their day and still are now. (I still have my LP12, Ittok, Asaka, NAC42.5 Hicap, NAP140 with Harbeths and you have to go a way to beat it). Amp design hasn't changed massively since the eighties, other than Class...

I Think I read that the OP had already bought a new pc too feed the DAC. But in case it helps anyone else, a 13 year old half way decent pc is more than adequate and better than something like a raspberry pi. Not so much a case of CPU power but more to do with the r pi's usb and ethernet ports...

Mic positioning is at least as important as speaker positioning, even very small changes can affect the HF measurements as moved from areas where signals from the two speakers and or subtract. Other factors include the effect of standing waves and resonances that get set up in various parts of...

Great, glad it's worked and that is same improvement.

That's good news, so you should already be using the LDAC codec, you can check in settings when developer mode is enabled if it isn't displayed anywhere else. Don't know if there is a difference between the Snapdragon and Exynos versions.

Just watched the video, isn't he the same guy who asked us to try and hear the difference on multiple poses through his DAC ADC setup when listening to a 128kb/s AAC steam on YouTube! The audio engineer is right about mains cable and room acoustics though, not sure about mics, I'd take a...

I'd add Genelec to the list of trusted manufacturers.

I do like the ATCs. A couple of points re. room eq and auto correction. Whilst it will improve the sound of badly placed speakers or poor acoustic space, it won't make them sound as good as a well set up pair of speakers well placed in an acoustically good room. Experiment with placement and get...

As mentioned, LDAC is a very good Bluetooth codec, have you thought about a Sony phone or PMP? Very happy with my Sony Xperia 5 IV, cameras and screen are excellent, sound quality is also good with codecs such as aptx adaptive and lossless, plus LDAC of course, it also has a proper headphone...

May as well add my tuppence here too. In my 20s and 30s I worked in high end music and film dining studios on the tech side and used to live up the studio monitor speakers. One of the first things I would do when arriving at a new studio and drying up monitors speakers was to check what they...