Recent content by Tim Smith

Hello Experts - need some advice on amplifiers! I have put 2 pairs of B&W's CC683's ceiling speakers in our kitchen & dining room and a pair of AM-1's outside. Music source is a Bluesound Node2 and the indoor speakers are currently driven by an old AV amp (Yamaha AX-2) as an interim measure...

Hi, I am looking at putting some in ceiling speakers into our kitchen to stream music to. I was looking at Blue Sound to handle the streaming and Bowers & Wilkins CI600 or CI300 in ceiling speakers. Any views on the BlueSound or the B&W's ? Any view on whether the BlueSound Power Node's 50W...

Yes,looking it up, I do mean judder!! Trying to play SD video bought on iTunes.

Yes,looking it up, I do mean judder!! Trying to play SD video bought on iTunes.

Hi experts! I have an Oppo105 which I am exceptionally happy with except for 1 area. When I hook my iPad mini to the Oppo via the front HDMI/MHL input I get really bad video jitter. The sound is fine but the video jitter is pretty awful. Any ideas/ suggestions???

There is something I don't really get here. If you are auditioning a top end player's 2 channel sound quality, why on earth would you take the signal output from an HDMI source? The Oppo 105 has a far superior power supply and DACs than your AV Amp and so if you are taking a digital sound...

I have just set up my new 105 and I have to say it looks and sounds amazing. But one observation on your point of dual HDMI outputs. If you use HDMI for sound then you are taking the sound digitally and surely defeating to point of buying the oppo as you won't be using its Superior DACs. I...

Thanks all for your views and recomendations. I borrowed a Marantz 7007 and managed to get my hands on an Oppo 105 for a day and I have to say, the Oppo was amazing! Picture quality from both machines on my plasma was excellent and TBH I couldn't tell the two apart. 5.1 movie sound from both...

So, looking to replace my aging Arcam DV79. I bought that player quite a few years ago now as I wanted good picture quality and good stereo. Looking to upgrade to BluRay now but as well as great picture quality, I need to retain the great stereo I get from the DV79. The Arcam BluRay players...

Thanks, Paul. I have an Apple TV (first version which had the hard drive built in) but I found that really unstable; kept crashing my network :cry: The dock with line level out looks like a good way to go. I'm looking at the Arcam drDOCK. Any views on that?

Thanks, Andy. Your response with the Pure Digital i20 is a great suggestion. Along the same lines I see Arcam have just brought out a similar solution, drDOCK. I have always been an Arcam fan; any views on the drDOCK?

Hi, I have an iPhone 4S which I want to connect to my home AMP (Yamaha AX-2). What is the best way to connect them? The easiest way to do this seems to be running through the headphone jack with a 3.5mm to RCA connection, but that brings the iPhone's internal DAC's into play which I wouldn't...