Recent content by Mr Compo

Hi I currently use a Logitech Squeezebox Touch with a Vortexbox NAS drive, unfortunately the Vortexbox after 5 years has given up the ghost and needs replacing. I no longer need the ripping capability as I mainly buy vinyl with download codes. I need a recommendation for a new NAS. Circa...

Have you looked into installing Vortexbox on your NAS drive and then using IPeng on your IOS or Android device to control. You can then output directly from the NAS to a DAC and into the hifi. Vortexbox works with IPlayer, Spotify and loads others.

I'm looking for a new hifi rack. Aesthetics will over rule sound quality. I'd ideally like an all glass support with 4 shelves. My equipment is of average size, Thorens, Leema, and squeezebox. There are lots of supports on the market with glass shelves and wooden or metal posts but I want an...

What are these 3rd party apps. I've done a quick google search and can only find IPeng for the Iphone.

I'm looking to expand my set-up with a streamer. I'll probably end up using the streamer only as a transport with a separate DAC, as such the sound quality of the streamer is less important provided it has digital outputs. Which streamers do people consider to have good user interfaces, UI...

I've recently read about people getting excelent deals on Logitech Touch streamers, sub £150? Where are people finding these? I can't find less than £180.

Can I use Airport Express to stream music from a Nas drive without my computer being turned on? I'm considering this as an alternative route to Logitech Squeezebox Touch. At what quality can the Airport stream? I'll be suing an Iphone for control in either case.

I've got Spendor A5s too and having demoed them with Naim equipment I can't recomend the pairing at all. Far too warm, muted and muddy. I use them with Leema gear quite happily and have demoed them with Cyrus equipment back to back with Naim and found the Cyrus a much better match. (Note not...

A gentle warming in the oven did expand the platter so that it sits snuggly and evenly over the inner plastic platter. Successful bodging in the great British tradition. I bought the turntable from an auction house, the lady there claimed that if I put my ear close to the record that you could...

So would this ordinarily only be done on heavier weight pressings?

I'm sure this will sound abundently stupid to many of you however please forgive my ignorance. Why do some albums come over 2 disks on vinyl, not just one? Chemical Brothers surrender is over 4 sides of vinyl and yet it is not an especially long album, it has a total run time of 58 minutes...

My player has a plastic inner ring. It plays with the belt in the location described, and it appears I am correct in my method having now read the manual on Vinyl Engine - this doesn't resolve the issue mind.

On Saturday I bought a Thorens TD 166, it appears in really good condition for the price and I've already been playing and enjoying it, Chemical Brothers were especially good, other things its quite muddy compared to my CD player with lots of crackles. To bring it home I removed the platter -...

I want to build a streaming system and so I’m interested in Sonos. I like the apparent convenience of sonos multiroom, the support available and the idea of the stable dedicated network. However I have a concern that the sound will be insufficiently hifi. T o counter this an obvious solution...

I'd like to get into Vinyl and have been keeping my eyes open for a decent deal or 2nd hand buy. One of my local shops has a Roksan Radius 5.1 Acrylic, its new boxed and with Nima arm, I'm not sure of the cartridge but he says it has one. Unfortunately the shop won't let me audition or return...