Recent content by Messiah

What do you consider a mid-range price? Looking at the rest of your speakers, it would be worth considering adding another pair of the RB42 Reference for the rear.

For a surround set up? What speakers do you use now (fronts, centre, rears)? Ideally all speakers should be from the same range for a better tonal match all round.

Depending on how feasible it is with your layout, you could also utilise the Zone 2/3 of your receiver to run a pair of floorstanders for stereo and leave the home cinema side as it is.

You mention free Spotify. Is it definitely the free version (and not paid) that you use? If so, the free version is capped at 160kbps so I am not surprised it sounds inferior. It might be worth seeing if you can use a free-trial for the full version (or pay for it for 1 month) and see how this...

For me the biggest factor is budget. You are gonna get more bang for your buck (better quality components) when buying Hifi Vs Home Cinema. (The following is a generalisation): Hifi - Source / Amp / 2 Speakers (plus cables) Home Cinema - Source / Receiver / 5 speakers plus Sub (plus cables)...

Looks great! Perhaps better off using a direct link to the article. (Would agree about the sub. Looks like PV1 (round) and not a DB3D (cube)).

Only really when pairing. Not sure why else it would need to be constantly on. I could have covered it over.

Fair point. I found the comfort ok. Only reason I got rid of mine was due to the constant flashing of the blue light. I mainly use my over-ear headphones when in bed and if the room was completely dark, that blue light would be quite irritating. (I now use Sony WF & WH XM5).

Whilst I cannot comment on the B&W pair (I suspect you will at least need to give it some time to make your mind up), I used the have the AKG and would agree that they are really good.

This is key really. Ideally we need to get speakers to suit the room and it is not as simple as saying floorstanders will always be better than standmounts. I would generally agree that floorstanders will give a more complete sound than their standmount counterparts in the same range. (It...

Do you have a full surround sound system or just 2 channel stereo? If it’s the latter then none of the surround formats will really matter (as you can only play in stereo) so optical will be fine. If you do have a full surround set up then you will need HDMI for Atoms/True HD but optical is...

Yep. 😊 https://www.whathifi.com/streaming-entertainment/music-streaming/qobuz-connect-finally-launches-with-wide-support-across-hi-fi-brands

Cool! I would imagine there are a number of factors. - YouTube (etc): with so many people completing reviews online now it makes waiting and paying for a monthly mag redundant. - Products: there are simply not as many products to review relating to Home Cinema as there used to be. Just...

If the magazine is no more why would they update the website? I didn’t realise it was no longer around. A real shame as I did enjoy that magazine (and even featured in the readers section once). I guess readership was down (have to confess I have not read it for a while hence the lack of...

One thing that always springs to mind when I think of amusing Hifi stories is one of my friends agreeing to meet us in Bristol for the Hifi show and turning up a week early! Luckily at that time he was fairly local so not a 4 hour round trip like it would be for him now.