Recent content by Tony L

I’m with Binface on this one: I saw a clip of Truss blathering in the HoC earlier, defending the tobacco lobby (who so clearly fund her) and stating freedom was being eroded by “the health police”. That’s doctors, the entire scientific community, and pretty much everyone else. She’s an...

If anyone here has a Poly with a firmware version less than v3.2.4 it is really worth getting it updated IMO. Important too as Chord are changing the server the Poly looks for, so it may get orphaned in the future and require a return to Chord to update. You can update it via the free Chord...

Even so on a speaker of that efficiency (IIRC the floor-standing Zus are close to 100db) that equates to hearing damage at well under two Watts. A safe median listening level is 80-85db or less, and remember you get an extra 3db just by having two speakers in a room. To my mind the rules change...

IIRC Zu speakers are really high efficiency, high-90s db, so they won’t be close to using even a Watt in most scenarios.

Far too long to post in entirely here, but this is a superb account from Israeli academic Lee Mordechai. Really worth a read, especially the tiny minority here who still, even now, don’t see Netanyahu’s far-right racist rage and mass slaughter of innocents as what it so clearly is. Full paper...

I’d add to that, somewhat controversially, to avoid test records with trackability tests etc as they invariably encourage setting for the worst case scenario when it comes to VTF and antiskate, which just isn’t what sounds best with 98.5% of records. That done listen very carefully to bolt...

Talking of bibles, Stormy Daniels on form as ever:

<moderating> Some semi-literate (likely) trolling removed. The point was barely discernible. I’ve no side in this at all, but I’m not publishing angry random word salad. Do better.

Pretty certain it/they are cream. I’ll ask next time I see him, which may be a fair way away as I too seldom go to Liverpool these days.

Yes, huge difference as things progressed. I don’t know early Stereophile, the oldest I’ve read os around ‘79-80 (and I liked it a lot), though early Absolute Sound was something special IMO. I bought a few early copies some years ago and started a thread on them. A really refreshing outsider...

<moderating> I’ve cleaned up some ad hominem. I find the defending of genocide, child murder, imposed starvation, and violent apartheid from some quarters repugnant and would request those posters to take that content to far-right sites where that vile mindset belongs, but I don’t want to host...

Yes, that does work, though I didn’t try it long enough to stress test it. I’ll give it another go sometime. I’ve got some high-res stuff on a SD card in the Poly.

Should be fine/superb. The BC1 has very low power handling, a Leak will drive them far louder than they’d ever want to go.

You’ll find it has changed entirely as I accidentally deleted the first one, which was annoying to put it mildly!

Have a read of @Robert’s comments on my UPnP/DLNA thread. Given the efficiency of your speakers the Hugo TT will be able to drive them with ease, it can apparently kick out 18Watts! Whether it matches the Zu’s as well as a Leak needs to be investigated, but worth a go given it just means wiring...