Recent content by Pete Shields

Excellent guys, thanks for the advice. Yes I really like the amp. I also have the matching CD player. Both in milled stainless steel. Your spot on with the Amp being good for a subwoofer connection Jasonovich. That is exactly what the Roksan tech desk said to me! Maybe one day on the upgrade...

thanks for the information Buckie. I'll have a think about whether I go down that route or maybe just try a cheapo amazon one for now and see how it performs. I won't use it that much so maybe an easy fix for now. If my listening habbits do change, I'll take a look at the Classi model that you...

Buckie. Could I ask what you ended up buying in the end. I am in a similar boat......I bought an ifi headphone amp to use with the output socket on my amp (which I thought was fixed). Found out that the amp is a variable output so sort of defeats the object when I put the headphones on and it's...

it's going to go in a corner, hidden, so may plump for an ebay version. Might just wait until black friday and see what happens with the prices

I would have gone with the Sonos arc ultra, but didnt realise that my old acoustimass bass unit was subject to a recall or 40% off a new soundbar. The bars were also on offer last week, so managed to get one for £360. Hence my purchase. Bit of a no brainer. Not as good as the Sonos, but cheap...

I've just changed my system from a Denon 3400 amp and 25 year old Bose acoustimass 15 5.1 system to a Bose smart ultra soundbar. I've had it a couple of weeks now and am getting used to it. I'm going to give it a couple more weeks to get used to the change in sound, but it does seem a little...

I'm not sure whether you got sorted on your upgrade - so this may be way too late, but I was looking to retire my 25 year old Acoustimass 15 system recently and checked online and found that Bose had a fire risk recall on the sub and they offered me a 40% discount on their smart ultra soundbar...

After finally giving into the other half in our main listening room and replacing the carpet with an amtico vinyl floor and swapping the big curtains for interal shutters, the sound of my system has lost all of it's bass. Any suggestions other than moving house! Playing vinyl seems particularly...

I bought mine at a similar time to knaithrover. £800 for the amp and £700 for the CDP. Both in Aluminium which looks great and which was an extra cost when released. So I got a real bargain and a big step up from my Audiolab power amp system. It sounds great. Amp only has 3 inputs plus...

Thanks Hawkmoon. I never even thought of Amazon music ultra HD and do have an amazon prime account, and will give it a go before I consider the Node 2i. I have it in my head that Tidal MQA is the holy grail, but my M-dac decoding standard HD tidal and high res files on my NAS do sound great. I...

Thanks for the advice guys. I need to find a quiet time when I'm in the house without others and move the speakers out a foot into the room and give them a blast. Might have to do this then every time I have a music night if there is a great difference. Little steps buts the other half has...

Al Ears, I took a punt on them as I saw them on Ebay for £1400, boxed in immaculate condition and only 2 years old with I think 18 years warranty still left. I'm not used to big floor standers having moved from my old Mission 731 stand mounts so a major change! The room is big 16 feet deep (as...

I' m currently running a Cambridge Audio CXN through an Audiolab M-DAC (original version) This replaced an old Sonos ZP90 (Sonos Connect) and a raspberry Pi 2 The sound improvement between the two was great. I have now started to listen a lot to tidal HIFI version and through this Tidal...

I have a Roksan Oxygene 75 watt @ 8 OHM amplifier which I use to power a pair of 8 OHM PMC 20/24 speakers. They sound great but I sometimes feel that the amp is not powerful enough for the speakers. I need to have the amp volume running at 60/100 plus for the speakers to really sing. Are the...

I had a pair of those. Bought them circa 1995. Think they were Soundstyle but really can't remember. Couldn't afford Atacama at the time and these were cheaper at about £70 quid. Only sold them with my old mission speakers about a year ago......