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by Vinyl-ant
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8378
Views: 2171102
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Re: Your last listen

Iron maiden - number of the beast
Slayer - reign in blood
by Vinyl-ant
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC
Replies: 4
Views: 1189
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Re: Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC

I tried the bottom of the range soundsmith, the othello a while back, i loved the cart but the actual stylus on that one was a bit crap and i could not get it to track how i wanted it to. That one was i think a bonded elliptical. With a stylus that is not like the end of a knitting needle and a cant...
by Vinyl-ant
Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Can recommendations
Replies: 8
Views: 1477
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Re: Can recommendations

So we have had the sundaras a week. Ive used them for a number of hours and they seem to have got better, as you would expect. So where are we at? Wot i av dun, is to add a jds labs el dac 2+, and send the linn mimik back over to my dad, he was using it as he had no cd player before i cadged it back...
by Vinyl-ant
Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:55 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Streaming- ur journey
Replies: 20
Views: 3643
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Re: Streaming- ur journey

I wouldnt know a network switch if one fell on my head.... I have just bought (she doesnt know) a(nother) dac, a jds labs el dac2+. This is to go with the second wiim mini thats on the headphone system. The other one has a topping e30 dac with it. We shall see wether there are any appreciable differ...
by Vinyl-ant
Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:48 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8378
Views: 2171102
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Re: Your last listen

Soundgarden - superunknown
by Vinyl-ant
Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8378
Views: 2171102
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Re: Your last listen

Nirvana - in utero
by Vinyl-ant
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Can recommendations
Replies: 8
Views: 1477
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Re: Can recommendations

These sundaras are bloody good straight out of the box Fit is much better than the devas for me and they seem to be tuned very flat in terms of frequency response. (They wont be the response graph is probably gently u shaped) Doesnt seem to be a hole anywhere, the devas seem to have a dip in the mid...
by Vinyl-ant
Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Streaming- ur journey
Replies: 20
Views: 3643
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Re: Streaming- ur journey

My use of streaming very short. Started with a squeezebox donkeys years ago, a very useful box of tricks with a very big and readable display. Running squeezecentre on a mac and streaming the itunes library. It was an arseache to go faffing with the computer all the time, it dropped out alot when ot...
by Vinyl-ant
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Can recommendations
Replies: 8
Views: 1477
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Re: Can recommendations

Cool, ta for that, ill look into that cable once i have got a handle on the stock cans.

Plenty of faffing potential
by Vinyl-ant
Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: General Audio
Topic: Can recommendations
Replies: 8
Views: 1477
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Re: Can recommendations

Well i decided on the sundaras after looking at a load of other stuff, looked at the ananda and arya but declined as practically every reasonably coherent review i could find said that both tended towards a midrange dip and a top end peak, less so with the arya, but its something i do not want. I ca...