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So the May Bank Holiday deals are dangling the Pioneer SC-LX58 at budget-busting but attractive £999. Do you think it'll be at least as musical in sterio as my current Arcam Alpha 9 integrated amp? It'll be driving B&W 603's in sterio with a CC6 S2 centre, 686 rears and ASW610 sub. Practically...

New is his first choice but as always fire away with your suggestions. I'd offer him my Arcam if the source selector worked as it has a great midrange. Thing is I've no idea what characteristics the Linn's exhibit so any suggestion from me will be a total shot in the dark.

A good friend is in a conundrum - his amp is dying and he's considering new. He wants to retain his current late '80's early '90's Linn Index speakers (86dB/W) but doesn't have a huge budget, sub-£400 at best. Tone controls, a phone stage and other such fipperies are considered unnecessary...

ww Some of Yamaha's latest AV amps have now arrived with DLNA certification and the ability to play FLAC natively. No doubt this will be a growing trend for these do-anything pieces of hardware. I'd like to know how any of the FLAC capable AV amps compare to dedicated players such as...

chebby: A Denon DM38DAB with Monitor Audio BR1 speakers for £299 will sound excellent in a bedroom. (And take up less room than all that stuff in your loft you mentioned.) And she can plug an iPod into it, play CDs, plug in her DVD & TV, use the radio etc etc. Just what I was thinking! I was...

I use an old PC for storage and I'd only recommend it as a stop-gap until you can afford a proper NAS. I've recently tried wake-on-lan to start the PC remotely (the Logitech remote supports this) which improves things somewhat (thanks a gent on here for that suggestion). However a PC is...

karlmc: thatsitivehadenough:I suppose I could take it into work once a year and use a compressed air gun to blow the dust out! Or might that just further the ingress of dust to other parts of the unit? Wouldn't do that as some compressed air systems also blow out a certain amount of moisture...

Alphabetically by Artist and that's enough for me, if I need to know dates I'll look at the box! The's go under 'T' in my system. Artists choose to put it there so I respect their naming conventions - who am I to argue after all? Various, Classical and Singles share their own mini rack each...

markjaspi:The RXV-1900 will be on par with the RXV2067 and the RXV-3900 will be on par with the RXV3067 IMO. My apologies Mark is right, RX-V2067, I got my specs slightly out .... oops

If my memory serves the AVR300 used Alpha 8 componentry and the AVR350 used Alpha 9. The AVR280 came later but should be directly comparible to £400 sterio amps of the same era.

My RX-V1800 is very similar to the 1900 and performs very well indeed. I suggest the 1067 will struggle to deliver the same drive and impact. The successor to the RX-V1900 is really the RX-V3067 as it has similar amplification output. The 1067 will give 3D, better auto-calibration and improved...

You have exactly the decision I was planning to make a few years ago when the AVR350 and its silbings were still available. In the end finances dictated my current setup but I would have chosen a single Arcam amp had funds allowed. What I'd like to add it that you don't need 2 sets of speaker...

Crocodile: For Squeezebox duties you don't need any connection between DAC & PC. You just connect via optical or coax direct to the Duet. In theory the Duet should output a digital signal without any processing. Understood. You've given me an idea. Presently the Alpha 9 operates as the...

Ok. I'm starting to get the picture methinks, I'm DAC ignorant so let me see how badly I get this wrong: Currently: Front-room: Duet analogue connected to Alpha 9 for audio and CAT5 connected to WLAN router. Office: WLAN bridge connects to switch and finally the PC/Media server. For the...

.... yes but which CD Players would you recommend to audition .... At present I rip my CD's via computer to FLAC. However my media serving PC isn't exactly 'instant-on' - it will be replaced with a NAS at some point. As a result I find just grabbing a CD and dropping in a player perversely...