Recent content by worldofsteve

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    Tidal options

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    Tidal options

    I've had the Tidal trial and will shortly be making that a subscription (especially as the only decent record shop Head in Leamington closed yesterday *sad*) I'm pretty pleased with the sound from my iPhone to Chromecast but I'm wondering if anyone had tried iPhone via Bluetooth, there seems to...
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    sound is a priority

    It's a two box job the "tuner box" wont light up at all but I see no fuses, and no leaky caps, struggling to find an old school "TV repair shop" most seem to want £95 to have a look!
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    sound is a priority

    my old Hitachi PD3200 plasma finally gave up the ghost, as in it won't switch on, I've no idea whether it's picture quality is up to 2017 standards, but it did have much better sound than my 2016 Samsung slimline LCD TV as it has for a TV above average sized and mounted speakers, which is a long...
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    NAIM NAIT / toaster

    Interesting, my understanding (sic) is by splitting the NAIT that's just a preamp now, and the NAP90 does the juice, so what would a Flatcap do in this set up? They seem to pop up regularly on eBay for not too much money.
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    NAIM NAIT / toaster

    Hi, been lucky enough to get a try of a NAIT3 MM phono/NAP90 from a friend who's upgrading to some monster NAIM streaming rig. It's been in storage for a looooong time and from cold sounded like hell, a few hours just streaming Spotify and it's warmed up and filled out nicely, but by warmed up I...
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    Arm change?

    Thanks, just what I was looking for, I'm slightly dubious about the merits of a counterweight but the cables have always looked very poor. Might even stick an Achromat on next ... cheers, Steve.
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    Arm change?

    Hi, been out of the game for a while, just listening to LPs rather than buying gear, but I have a little cash and a small upgrade itch. I'm using an OEM Rega arm passed on from a friend who thinks it's an RB250, I'm sentimentally attached to the Pink Triangle it's screwed to and the rather...