Recent content by marou

Liked the Revels/Primare, the T&A/Stratus, PS Audio/Vandersteen a lot. But a lot of variation in the suitability of rooms and material spoiled some demonstrations. Not many visitors either and fewer exhibitors - e.g.no Naim, PMC

Jazz Record Requests Saturdays at 4 is a good place for new (to my ears) stuff. In the meantime: The Prophetic - Herbie Nichols Quiet Winter Night - Hoffman Emsemble New Bottles, Old Wine - Gil Evans Further Definitions - Benny Carter

Great thread, thanks.

Not cheap but definitely worth it - integrates your own library with Tidal or Quobuz (and Sonos) with a very good gui and a lot else besides.

MacMini > Roon > usb > Explorer > Yamaha aux

I'm currently considering getting an MQA dac or a new streamer (Meridian Explorer2 or Bluesound Node 2). It is rather annoyoing as only had Yamaha for 3 or so months. But once more albums are made available I won't hesitate to pull the trigger. The Explorer is only £129 from Audioaffair and...

Sorry, are you a moderator? My post remarking on the quality of WHF reviews seems pretty relevant but even if it weren't who are you to tell me where and what to post?

This is the magazine which has just given Apple Music 5 stars for sound quality

Brilliant gui, integrated library management, wonderful sound - I'm happy to pay for it.

Sonore Microrendu

Although the Linn Majik is good I think having owned one it's overpriced. You could do better ripping your CDs to an Innuos Zen music server (or equivalent) and accessing music via the inbuilt Logitech player into a dac such as the M2Tech HiFace or Audioquest Dragonfly and then a usb amp - Quad...

You sure know how to wound, CNO.

Every Thursday morning on his excellent BBC Radio London programme, Robert Elms plays an original and a cover (selected by a listener) and invites preferences live or by email/twitter/facebook, before reaching a not very scientific decision on which is best.

My dad had an electric gramophone (which only played 78s) with an enormous papier-mâché horn. The tone arm took Toblerone-shaped needles sharpened using a pair of scissors with a Toblerone-shaped hole for the purpose. Bring 'em back.

As an Olympic standard electronic incompetent I'd be fascinated to know what the components were, where you got them and how you put them together.