Santa? What did he bring you this year?

£210 towards my iPad Pro. Xmen Blu-Ray and Transformers Blu-Ray which I already got! £75 from relatives, some links, socks and pants.
 
£120 worth of Richer sound vouchers. Any suggestions what to spend it on? Grado headphones or QED Audio 40 Interconnect? Perhaps put the money toward the CXN Streamer?
 
A dead'ish CD player.

Plugged my (preferred) DAD3Q in and ... nothing. Spins a little, laser tries to focus, now no spinning ... nothing.

Opened the old girl to check for a well known issue with capacitor/supply to the drive mech and although I can't see any leakage ordered a few 25v 10uf ones, a couple of SFM panasonics plus a few through hole ones just in case I got problems with the surface mount ones ... old age and jiitery hands n'all that. I would have measured the thing but my multi meter packed in a few months ago so another one is arriving too.

Same time ordered a new (chinese made) philips 12.4 replacement laser diode assembly.

The above should get her going again in a few days, failing that it will be an enquiry to cyrus which have been helpful in the past.

Sending her in will probably cost between £120 and £200 so I'd rather not as I can ill afford it.

Well, there you go. Santa is in DIY mood :-(

Meanwhile I use my 2nd, newer cyrus player.
 
paulsue38 said:
£120 worth of Richer sound vouchers. Any suggestions what to spend it on? Grado headphones or QED Audio 40 Interconnect? Perhaps put the money toward the CXN Streamer?

Bought a Grado SR80e a few months back, love it.

Warmly recommended.
 
Some Audio-Technica ATH-50X headphones. Next on the list - a decent headphone amplifier!
 
Thanks, might go to the Chester branch in the morning and get a pair they are on offer in the sale, see how my head is though!!!!! Cant see me making it for 10. Might sneak the CXN streamer in though the back door as well and hope she doesnt notice.

drummerman said:
paulsue38 said:
£120 worth of Richer sound vouchers. Any suggestions what to spend it on? Grado headphones or QED Audio 40 Interconnect? Perhaps put the money toward the CXN Streamer?

Bought a Grado SR80e a few months back, love it.

Warmly recommended.
 
And in answer to the original question, not very much at all.
 
A 32 Gb memory stick.

I have already bought myself a dragonfly v1.2, an Oppo HA-2 and a Sennheiser HD598SE for my birthday this month, so my christmas present (some in-ear headphones for the Oppo) will wait a few days until a decent pair appear in the the sales.
 

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