Recent content by Utterchaos23

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    Hifi is all the same?

    Hi, yes, I'm a complete novice (never even removed a cart before!) but I quite happily fit my Houdini and the 6mm spacer. Arthur K, the designer, post the guarantee himself on another forum, but you can contact Funk to verify. Sorry, if I'm being short and vague, I'm not usually like this, I'm...
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    Hifi is all the same?

    Funk have spacers, best contact Funk directly.
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    Hifi is all the same?

    Trying to tread carefully here, but I have a Rega P3. Once my cart (Elys 2) was isolated, to me, it sounded much better. I haven also upgraded the cart to a AT VM540ML and it is another leap forward. I backwards tested to the AT without the Houdini and, to me and my wife, most of the sonic...
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    Hifi is all the same?

    Hi all, Full disclosure: I have a Houdini on trial direct from Arthur because I am local to him. I am not part of Funk and not being paid for reviewing. I'm posting to help the forum users with some actuals, without offering an opinion, for fear of being accused of being biased. I't looks...
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    Modifying the Beresford TC-7510 DAC

    Ya gotta love exhuming REALLY old threads...Think this is one of the oldest I've dug up! Just got myself a S/H TC-7510. Quick question, the mods 21 1&2 seem to be focused around the headphone/variable part of the DAC pcb.... does this mean I would get no benefit if using the fixed Line-Out...
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    Optical or USB Dac?

    Shame I forgot to cancel my bid on the Beresford TC-7510 then! Ahh well... I got it for a good price and it's still gotta be better than my UE25-EX... hasn't it? Even if it is optical! Maybe I could get a USB>Optical/Coax converter?
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    Optical or USB Dac?

    Cheers all. Adam, think you might be right... USB looks the way to go. Have D/Led Audirivana and I think it may offer a lot.. £60 though :( and quite dificult to flip between to get a blind test... anyway, enjoying free the demo! MajorFubar, Yes, expection bias can cost a lot of money! -...
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    Optical or USB Dac?

    Hiya, Thanks for responing. I do disagree though. I have used a reasonable quality 3.5>Phono and pluged it straigh into my amp, my mp3's sounded a bit flat and lifeless but the biggest diference was on the 96kHz losless flies, it seemed all of the benefit had been sucked out and there was no...
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    Optical or USB Dac?

    Hi All, I'm hoping for some advice. I have a Mac Mini (2013), an Onix OA21 amp and Celestion Impact 10s. Currently I'm using a Roland UA-25 mainly as a DAC and things are sounding quite good, that is, until I pug in my Shure se530s (for testing only). It is then that I can tell that it's the...
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    Replacement for Roland UA-25

    Hi Overdose. I'm in the process of concidering an upgrade to my UA-25EX too. I'm looking at the Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 with the idea that it appears to have the same DAC chip at the Apogee Duet, which is out of my buget, a CS4272 I'm pretty happy with my input quality with the UA25 but I'm...