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There are many many reviews on many bits of hi fi equipment by so many different guys in so many different rooms with so many different amps and DAC's and cables and different sources and different music preferences etc that is so difficult to appreciate the review without thinking that the...

Answer my own question for anyone who cares..... If I had my Grado's (SR80I's) without the HRT microstreamer then I might think I had wasted my money on the Grado's. Then again listening to my Numarks through the HRT would have made me think I wasted my money on the HRT. The answer was to buy...

Thanks all the comments are useful. Sounds like NAS is the way to start. Was looking into using the electricity wiring to send the signal around via wifi adapters but my house is triple phase and it won't work upstairs and downstairs without further recievers and transmitters. :doh: Looks like...

I consider myself well knowledged in hi-fi matters. I have been reading about and have been interested in hi fi for over 35 years so what I don't know usually is about very technical aspects of hi fi. Then there is the area of connectivity in home. There I am not so great. I have a PC (non wi-fi...

I'm currently about to upgrade my music system by two ways. 1/ Buying a better pair of headphones (Either AKG 550/551's or Grado SR80i's) 2/ Buying a DAC (HRT Microstreamer). I can only afford to buy one of them at a time and will probably have to wait a while before being able to buy the...

Thanks Steve. He's grown a bit now and hopefully it's the end of that habit. The sticky tape worked a treat and almost no marke remain. Thanks again

I have most of my music on external hard drives and mostly listen to music on headphones (Grado sr80i) straight from my PC, otherwise i play through a Cambridge A5 amplifier into Mordaunt Short 902i's. Not the latest in hi fidelity but it's what i have.

Hello all. I have just read the review on the new Denon Piccolo micro system. It sounds too good to be true but maybe I am not understanding it right. As a lot of my music is digitised I have been trying to figure out which option is best with my limited budget for converting my music from my...

It doesn't seem to have affected the sound so i will leave them for now. I was going to try using my handheld dustbuster to suck it back out but i can see 'Disaster' written all over that. Thanks for reply, and i'll keep checking for any more ideas.

I have a Q Acoustics 1010i 5.1 Suround Sound Speaker set up. My son has managed to take off the grill from the centre speaker and has poked the centre dome of the speakers in. Does this make a difference to the sound and is there a safe way of popping them back out again?

After buying the Sony BDP-S350 i realised that it does not have multi channel analogue output. Does this mean that i cannot use it in a surround sound system?

Thanks. Only problem is that they don't have the tv i want. Will check out the amp though.

I am an avid follower of the mag and have been for many years. I should really subscribe as i live in Cyprus and have to pay about 10 Euros for the mag. Oh well. Anbyway...my dilema is this, I am going to have my TV and surround system shipped to Cyprus from the UK with my white goods and i'm...