hifi

Hi everyone, I am planning on buying my first Hifi system for our living room (30m2) . I was looking at a music streamer, DAC and (active) speaker for about 2000 euros. Hopefully I can get some advice on the items om my shortlist :) I only stream Spotify at this moment. I usually stream music...

Let's take a trip down memory lane! What's the oldest piece of hi-fi equipment you proudly own? Share your vintage treasure.

Are there any single-driver bookshelf speakers from budget to very high-end that have a frequency response range from ~100Hz to 20KHz and above for home Hi-Fi use? That could be paired with a sub-woofer and accordingly adjust the frequency cut-off at the sub-woofer end that match the bookshelf...

For those who have this amp and the original 1965 not the reissue 1999. What do you love about it and what are you pairing with it from speakers to input sources.

Hi there, I recently bought myself a Yamaha R-N600A network Hi-Fi amplifier. When the volume is as low as it can go, the speakers and headphone output make a very low humming noise (around 50Hz, audible if close enough to the speaker). Do you think it may be a defect with the amplifier? Or a...

Hello, I am a student from the Netherlands and I am doing a school project with a company. The project idea is that we make an audio switch. The idea is that the audio switch has to switch between 12 inputs (12 amps) and 4 pairs of speakers with the choice of 2 subs. So we can quickly switch...

I have an Oppo BDP-105D which was their top of the line multi disc player and streamer, and has a very high quality Sabre D-to-A converter in it, however (but) my receiver also has exceptional D-to-A chip(s) as well. It's a 2004 Sony ES series STR-DA 9000ES unit. I can use the 7 channel analog...

Hello, I might use some help from someone that has a better understanding of the matter, I'm struggling to decide on how to proceed with my first Hi-Fi tiny setup (Tiny due to budget and space in my apartment), and my options are: NAD C700 Yamaha MultiCast WXC-50 + Rotel RB-1552 MkII Just go...

Hi again WhatHifi community. I have recently compared 2 amps at home a Rotel A11 Tribute and the Audiolab 6000A. I think i am going settle with the Audiolab to replace my Marantz pm 25. It has totally redifined the Soundstage in the best way, made a lot more detail come out, highs became...

Setup upgrade advice. (this was an email to some experts with no response yet) Hi whathifi Community, Im Klaus (started when i was 16 currently 20) from the Netherlands and i am really into records but i feel that my setup is lacking and perhaps failing my nice records to get to that next...

Thomson A3305 Kevlar 5 Disk Changer Hi-fi not working. I have a Thomson A3305 Kevlar 5 Disk Changer Hi-fi It has been sitting idle for about 6 months as I have been redecorating. When I powered it up again it won't play Tapes or CD's. The radio works fine. When I power it off the CD drawer...

Hi All, I'm new to the forum so forgive me if my question is similar to another person's somewhere on the site. I've recently bought a pair of B&W 606 S2 Anniversary and decided to not go for the obvious choice - Rega brio but to purchase the Rotel A11 Tribute instead. The main reason behind...

Hi there, I'm working on a new system with KEF Reference 5's for L/R and (2) KEF Reference 8b subs. This will also be part of a home theater with the McIntosh MC180 AV processor. I've spec'd out the McIntosh MC462 amp for the L/R channels. I'm planning to use a ROON library hosted on the SGM...

Hi there! I am very new to the whole idea of HiFi and CD players. Could anyone help me out and give me some suggestions on what to buy? I have a budget of $400AUD/$290USD/£215. For now I only plan on playing CDs but I might expand to vinyl in the future. The room that the speakers will be in is...

Anyone also experiencing sync issues with the speakers? I owned a pair of formation flex speakers and I am trying to play music through iphone/ mac via Airplay2. The issue is that there is always a delay or sync problem when I play the music, (1-2s) which annoys me a bit as the video I play on...

Hi all, For a while I’ve been reading and watching YouTube videos on hifi sets. Currently I am using a Sonos 5.1 set, arc sub and one’s for both the tv and music. Bear in mind it’s true played and neutral EQ loudness off and the Sonos software makes the one and arcs low frequencies free to the...

Hi everyone, I am a product desing BSc student in my final year at university. I was wondering if you could provide feedback on my designs, purely from an aesthetics point of view, and tell me which on you prefer out of the five pictured. I have provided a google drive link, please let me know...

So I recently bought the Denon PMA600NE integrated amplifier for vinyl purposes. But it also has a great DAC and I thought I could connect it to my TV as well. But the problem is, my TV (Mi Horizon 4A) does not have digital out. It only has one SPDIF out which I am connecting to a small...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it's possible to plug a subwoofer to the Rega IO since there's no LFE or SUB output. And if yes which one do you recommend and how do you do it ? I 've heard many things using Y connector and so on but this is confusing to me, I'm still pretty new to this. My...