Recent content by spiny norman

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    connecting AV Reciever with integrated amp Powering front channels?

    The equalisation built into the Audyssey system should take care of this.
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    connecting AV Reciever with integrated amp Powering front channels?

    The PM-11S3 has a power amp direct input for just this situation. Connect the front L/R preouts of the receiver to this input, and when you want to use the receiver press the P.DIRECT IN button on the front of the PM-11S3 for a couple of seconds until the amp's display shows 'POWER AMP DIRECT'...
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Soon be five if we play our cards right.
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    Node 2/Vault 2/Cambridge Azur/ND5/LinnDS/etc. Streamers

    Yes, it can, using software such as XLD which, despite the name of X Lossless Decoder, can also be used to rip/import CDs. You set the 'number of retries' in the ripping part of the preferences pane, and then just leave it to it. The software will then rips the CD, retrying if it finds any parts...
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    How so? After all, for the past however many years she has been "Head of Marketing & PR, Exertis Unlimited. Brands represented include Astell&Kern, Audeze, Audioengine, Canton, HeadsUp, Flexson for SONOS and SONOS" , which skills one would have thought were eminently transferable to her new role.
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Nothing 'ad hominem' about it at all. It's just a personal insult.
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    They should never have split in 1986.
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Wasn't there a forum almost before there was a site? Or at least wasn't the original site almost all about the forum, and interacting with the readers?
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    Has Amazon taken over WHF?

    So, are you saying they should replace 'What' with 'Not' in the title?
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Ee, but those were t'days
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    Has Amazon taken over WHF?

    Seven out of nine front page stories right now, and ellisdj seems to be spearheading the Amazon forum takeover, too.
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Well, glad that's sorted, then.
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    Has Amazon taken over WHF?

    Lots, until clickbait freezes over.
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    Clare Newsome to be new Naim director.

    Yeah, perish the thought she might have got the position on her own achievements and abilities.
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    8K ?????

    In 1964?