Recent content by VCalegon

My machine is the basic Solo music. It plays CDs OK. But it never played anything that I burnt. It went back to the factory once. They said they "found something unrelated that was wrong and corrected it" (I felt that it was unprofessional of them not to tell me what), but no change was...

The reason for buying the SACD was twofold - a) it was second-hand and I didn't know it was an SACD (and I didn't know what one of those was anyway, AND I wouldn't have known it wouldn't play on the Solo anyway), b) SACDs do, in theory, play on any CD player. (I used to have one of those Yamaha...

I got my first Hybrid SACD disc the other day, and sure enough my hated Arcam Solo can't tell the difference between that and a beermat. I was thinking of beginning an upgrade with something like a Cyrus CDi plugged in the back of the Arcam, but after a while I decided upgrades are for fools...

At the moment I have an Arcam Solo, but it's starting to play up, and I expect to buy a Cyrus CD player to plug into the back of it, and then the amp upgrade will come last. Well, I'm hoping it will be a temporary situation. I'm even thinking of buying the bass bin and just using some old...

The room is about 4m x 5m, and I'll be buying new not second-hand. It's the desk, plan chest, easel, guitars and freezer that limit the floorspace, lol! (nothing sinister about the freezer - it's just that my kitchen is about 2m square!)

I was wanting to spend £800 on a pair of floorstanders, but then I reorganised all my furniture and realised I don't have enough floorspace, so it's going to have to be bookshelf speakers (literally, they have to go on the bookshelves) and a bass bin. How do I apportion £800 between the two, and...

Well said, Pete!

Clearly I should have bought the RS6s first off. But now I'm looking at an upgrade, probably plugging a Cyrus CD player (I haven't decided whether it will the 6 or the 8 ) into the back of the Solo, then finally going for a suitable amp, so the RS6s will no longer be good enough for that. I was...

I got my Sennheiser HD650s for less than £200, but that was about 5 years ago (Turnkey in Charing Cross Road, I think). I admit I was expecting them to sound a little more open than they do. But I like the foam Sennheisers because they are comfortable for long periods of time, and the 3m of...

Yes, I've got some Sennheiser HD650s, but even they are not as good as listening to speakers. In 1978 I heard a Linn Sondeck played through a Cambridge amp and some Kef speakers and it seemed to fill a huge room beautifully with no effort, so I wish I knew how to reproduce that sound!

I've got an Arcam Solo and some Monitor Audio Bronze BR5s, silver anniversary biwired. I like the sound a lot when it's loud, but it really is as dull as dishwater when quiet. I know that's fairly typical and it's due to the ear's insensitivity to bass at low volumes, but I've played with the...