slinger wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 2:27 pm I know bugger-all about these things, which doesn't stop me being very impressed.

Same here, along with Doc mod speakers.

I am quite a fan of Audio Quest. Have a Dragonfly Red attached to my phone, a Dragonfly Black, Jitterbug and now the Carbon USB cable.

Diamond Head - Canterbury
The Who - Who
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Gary Moore - Still got the blues
Yes - Fragile

Diamond Head - Borrowed time
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of birth
David Bowie - Station to station

I have always been able to detect differences between cables, the most significant when upgrading from LS6 to TSCS. Have not given USB cables much thought but have decidehd to take a punt on Audioquest Carbon. If not impressed Amazon have a good returns policy. I will report. The AQ Carbon arrived ...

I bought the Grado and Oppo headphones in my signature at Richer Sounds. On both occasions I was alowed plenty of time to compare different brands playing music stored on my phone with the DAC I brought along. My only gripe is that they would not let me audition the AQ DF Red because they insisted i...

Motown Anthems
Yes - The Yes Album
Thunder - Giving the game away
Marillion - Marillion.com
Whitesnake - Flesh & Blood

antonio66 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:17 am Never mind about hits from the 70's/80's, did you back any winners.

Had three out of seven. Not great prices, but up on the day.

I have the Grado 325e headphones. Compared them with a number of similar priced ones before buying and they came out on top to these ears. The only meaningful demo you can have at a dealers.