Recent content by MadSquirrel

When I first set the system up there was some "juddering" when I tried to use 24-frame mode. Pressing the Info button on the telly showed a 1080p60 signal being received. I fiddled with the AVR settings and set the HDMI mode to "bypass". The TV's status changed to 1080p24 and all was fine...

If it were me then I'd hang on to the Squeezeboxes. I have two myself (the non-wifi version branded Slim Devices, before the Logitech buy-out). However, if you're determined to replace them I'd be happy to take the old ones off your hands. *biggrin*

4K is pointless in the home. OLED, on the other hand... But let's have them as flat panels which you can hang on the wall. In the meantime I'm sticking with my plasma.

I had to check the date on that posting to make sure it wasn't 1st April... There is absolutely no mechanism by which USB (or ethernet) cables could make any difference to the sound whatsoever, other than poor screening (which would mean the cable was out of spec) leaking RF, whereby the...

The primary source in my main system is a Turtle Beach Audiotron streamer (a few years old now and one of the first, but it has the advantage of not requiring any software on whatever's sharing the files). All music is stored on a 400GB RAID file system on a *nix box, shared out by Samba. The...

Ok, just to throw in my £0.02 worth: In the analogue domain, eg interconnects, speaker cables, composite or component video, the cables do make a difference to the sound (or picture as appropriate). In the digital domain, things are different. Whilst theoretically it's possible for the cable...

Assuming the disk will actually spin up, download a copy of Hiron's Boot CD, burn the ISO to a blank CD (or use a piece of software called Rufus to make a bootable USB stick). Boot from this, run DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) from HBCD. On a drive less than about 10 years old (which will use...

I have Wireworld Chroma cables, but only because Sevenoaks threw them in when I bought a complete new system from them. Can't say I noticed any difference when I swapped over to the freebie HDMI cables that came in the box with the Blu-Ray player and Freesat box. However the Wireworlds have...

Well I did attend a demo at the Bristol show a few years back by Isotek where they were swapping out various mains cables and upgrades etc. The most surprising thing was when they demo'd a bog standard IEC cable where they'd replaced the moulded IEC socket with a Wattgate style one. I have to...

The only things that got taken in the break-in from that room were the AV receiver, DVD player and some of the speakers. They managed to get the 908 floorstanders out, got the four 903S surrounds off the wall (but dropped one in the garden) and missed the 905C. They did whip the Black Box 50...

Had an Arcam Black Box 50 on my PC which got stolen during a break-in. Am currently running a Cyp AU-D3 from the optical out on a USB soundcard as a temporary measure but want to go back to Arcam. How does the rDAC compare with the Black Box 50? I know it's a lot newer of course, but would I...

Hmmm... over a grand for a power cable? I'm running an Arcam AVR360, not a Krell! :-)

I notice that Maplin have started selling some "audiophile" power cables: http://www.maplin.co.uk/screened-iec-lead-44118 That one (L85AZ) looks very similar to the Isotek Premium for half the price. (I had a couple of Isotek Premium cables but they got lost when I moved house, I currently...

My house got broken into a while back, this was a photo of the system I had at the time - Arcam AVR250 receiver, DV79 DVD-A player, Mordaunt-Short Avant 908/905C/903S speakers, Rega Planar 3 turntable with RB300 tonearm and Ortofon 510 cart, and Panasonic 32" CRT TV. There's also a Sony CD...