Recent content by Rich27

In fact it was the Primare that got me into the whole Class D thing. There are excellent amps from Bel Canto and Wyred4sound along the same vein.

Glad you are still enjoying the A34.2, it was me that sold it to you! Having owned the Pre32/A34.2 after having an I32 on loan my advice would be go for the I32, there is very little between them. In fact if you look at the photos of the insides of these amps on google, there is very little...

DS213+ has a faster processor, better connectivity and hot swappable (if that is a word) drive caddies. Also you don't have to take the thing apart to fit the drives. DS213 fits in between the 212j and 213+ but is closer to the 213+ in terms of performance.

The warranty period is totally irrelevant, a quality piece of electronic equipment should last several years and it would be a very straightforward small claims court job. Hopefully it shouldn't need to come to that if the retailer is reasonable in making good under the terms of the Sale of...

Your contract is with the retailer, he will clearly need to deal with the manufacturer/distributor to try and resolve but at the end of the day it is down to him to sort this out to your satisfaction.

Stick to your guns and pursue the retailer for some action. Warranty is over and above your statutory rights, your statutory rights in this case are the Sale of Goods Act. I would suggest that a premium piece of hifi only lasting 369 days is in no way fit for purpose and as such you are...

Yes that is correct!

I run a Dac straight into a pair of power amps and am very pleased with the result. Dac and power amps are the same make, so I assume the manufacturer has designed these to work together in an optimal way (Bel Canto). If you only have digital sources I cannot understand the need for a pre...

In my experience dac/pre into a Primare A34.2 makes a wonderful combination, if you only have digital sources you really don't need a dedicated pre amp.

Not sure on your budget but Bel Canto CD3t and Simaudio Moon180 MiND tick your boxes as transport and streamer respectively, neither have a dac of any sort!

You cannot fast forward on the Naim streamers although that may or may not be added with a future software update at some point as yet unspecified in the future!

Napsc and Flatcap power different bits of the 202 and are therefore not interchangeable! If you have a 200 power amp then the Flatcap is a total waste of money imho. A HiCap or Teddy equivalent is a different matter, in fact Teddy Pardo makes a power supply which will do both the Napsc bit and...

Who is the dealer? Seems like a great deal, you should snap his hand off!

Lets be clear here, Raid 1 is not a proper backup, it simply writes the same data to two identical copies across two disks. You still need to keep a separate backup of the data to be safe. For example if you accidentally delete something off your Raid 1 NAS where is your so called backup then?

I don't think I am disagreeing with you, find a decent dealer, one that will actually listen to what you want without trying to sell you things you don't want or need! I have never heard an XS amp but using good quality files streamed via upnp to an NDX connected via analogue to a Supernait is...