Recent content by Travis Daki

  1. Travis Daki

    search for a stereo amplifier for B&W 606

    The excellent NAD C350 is also within your budget. Definitely worth auditioning. And it looks the part! ;) Good luck! ♫♪
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    Kerr Acoustic K300 Mk3

    Indeed. :D
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    What was the first hi-fi separates you bought with your own money?

    AKAI AM19 amp + the low-end cd player from the same year (circa 1995). :) Upgraded to ROTEL 921 just a couple of years later. First proper speakers Tannoy M1, and I still own a pair of B&W DM302s!
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    Sony’s new NW-A306 hi-res portable music player is surprisingly affordable

    You haven't read the entire article, now have you?
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    Technics SA-C600

    Yeah, no inbuilt MiniDisc recorder either? Definitely a deal breaker for me.
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    LG OLED77Z2

    The reviewer said: ''8K YouTube videos are of surprisingly low quality, to the extent that we felt the need to double-check that we were indeed receiving 8K (we were). '' You guys do know that all online streaming platforms - and especially YouTube - use heavy compression on all of the content...
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    High Frame Rate (HFR TV): What is it? Why does it matter? And how do you get it?

    Put your right (or left) hand up in front of your face, spread your fingers apart and wave your hand around. The faster you 'wave' the less defined your fingers look. See, human sight is ALL about the motion blur! What we see 'in focus' is less than 20% of our eyesight - all the rest of it (our...
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    QED Reference XT40i

    I was as sceptical as the next man, about cables making any difference whatsoever - speaker cables in particular. But then, back in the late 90s I swapped the hardware-store cables I used (10m for €5 in today's money) with the entry-level Monster Cable (can't remember the model name but it was...