Recent content by scotto

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    speakers and amp advice - £10-20k budget for rock and dance music

    I mainly listen to the same music as you. Speaking as someone who was a full time music producer and audio engineer for 8 years I can tell you this music DOES contain subtle textures in production. 10 - 20k is a lot of wong, when I auditioned my cd player for instance it was put up against a...
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    Benefit of a streamer?

    Maybe on paper and especially in the sales brochures, but in reality I heard my rega apollo-r up against a linn streamer and the CDP left the streamer for dead. The streamer sounded flat and compressed, nothing breaking free from the speakers at all. Even the shop owner who seemed desperate to...
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    Humming ,buzzing Brio r

    That's a quick reply :-) thanks I will look harder for the number, just had standard 50hz reply from dealer and pointed him to this thread and asked if he will speak to them. As pointed out above it' not like it's cheap gear, although as we know it is excellent value for money, will keep you...
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    Humming ,buzzing Brio r

    I have the dac which I took back for a buzzing issue but the dealer tested for audio hum and this is not an audio hum, it's powerpack hum, I decided to live with it. Now got the apollo-r and that hums too, both units in unison make a pretty loud hum. The dac will now be out of warranty so I...