Recent content by TazLondon

Interesting question. 15 or so years ago I would say that the system (all A/V equipment) I had cost around 15% of the value of my then London home - but I did buy that house at a cost of just 20% of the value of my current house! Now all the A/V equipment in my house represents around 0.8% of...

Okay, point taken and understood. I'm here to learn too.

Here are some photos of my headphones system. It's an fairly entry-level system but I'm more than happy with the sound. Total budget was around £500. The Little Dot MKIII tube headphone amp sits perched upon the Beresford TC-7510 DAC to save space.

I'll dig out some photos of my headphones system once I work out how to post pictures on here! Yes, the Little Dot MKIII can be used as a pre-amp, according to the manual. Here's an extract from the manual regarding use as a pre-amp: To be honest, I've never used it as a pre-amp so can't say...

I currently have the following for headphone listening of my music: - Beresford TC-7510 DAC - Little Dot MKIII tube headphone preamp/amp - Sennheiser HD-595 headphones The sound is really, really good - very transparent, good soundstage, detailed and warm. I think the headphones are the...

Look, I'm a new member on here and there's no reason to cut down people like you have done. I was hoping this would be a more welcoming and friendly forum where we share common interests. Somebody asked a question and I provided my opinion. I thought that's what forums were for? I don't own...

Sooooooo, after many years away from HiFi, I've just found out that banana plugs are banned in the EU. The brand new amp and speakers I've just bought, thankfully, were able to accept my banana plugs for the speaker cables after I popped out the blanking pins. I had some high-quality banana...

Does anyone have any insight into the quality of broadcasts (i.e. bitrate) from the following sources of digital radio? - Sky TV - Freeview - DAB - Internet radio I would guess that DAB quality would be the worst but don't know much about the bitrates of the others.

I only listen to one Internet radio station at the moment: bestsmoothjazz.com It's available through iTunes Internet radio and TuneIn, as well from bestsmoothjazz.com

Generally speaking a separate amp + passive speakers are always going to sound better than a set of active speakers. Here's how I see things. Active speakers: Pros: compact space, may have wireless streaming capability built in (e.g. Airplay), can be quickly moved to another room, generally...

I've just got a pair of Q Acoustic 2020i speakers mated to a Marantz PM6005 amp. The sound is breathtaking! I don't know what the Mission speakers sound like, but the 2020i speakers have a huge soundstage to my ears. The top end of the QA's is just how I like it - no sibilence. I've listened to...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say 'Hi'. I've just taken my first tentative steps back into the world of HiFi after 14 years when I sold my previous HiFi system that I had spent 15 years upgrading. My old HiFi system that I sold 14 years ago due to moving from a house to a flat has these major...