Recent content by Birdseed007

One of the biggest problems the Tories will have in future years is that having shafted the young so comprehensively for decades they're going to end up unelectable as their traditional final salary pensioned, blue rinsed, golf club swinging demographic dies off. A generation of people still...

In terms of quantity/volume of listening it's: 1. Tidal streaming (by miles!) 2. Tidal local rips 3. Vinyl 4. CD However in terms of quality of sound it's 1. Vinyl 2. 24/192 downloads from local rip 3. 16/44.1 local rips 4. CD 5. 16/44.1 streamed via Tidal I was actually surprised that vinyl...

Onlyconnect, I'm glad you're pleased with them but your room must work better with them than either of the two rooms I tried mine in. Don't get me wrong I do appreciate their superb speed/timing, their transparency and their ability with things like acoustic singer songwriter stuff but I was...

I think the SBL are 89dB whereas the ATC are 85dB so they do work the NAP250 harder however their real benefit is that they are just a far more accurate and involving listen and have tremendous bandwidth, scale and speed. With the SBL due to the lack of bass warmth I found myself avoiding...

I was always slightly frustrated with my NAC82/NAP250/HiCap driving SBL's but moving to ATC SCM40's cured that and now I just listen in awe everyday! Maybe it's not the amps but the speakers? Birdseed007

I suspect that there are several things going on here: 1. Western nations are raising the rhetoric about the possibility of war to deter Putin from overstepping the mark and invading a NATO member. 2. Military types are (rightly) pointing out that the savage cuts to army/navy/air-force numbers...

Don't chase incremental improvements frequently but big improvements infrequently Source first applied most when primary sources were vinyl, recognise that in the digital era speakers and their room interatcion are probably most important Do go to hi-fi shows to hear many different kinds of...

The thing I don't understand about the shelling of the Gaza strip is that I thought the whole root of the problem was that both Palestanians and jews were living there in abject poverty. From the data I have seen there are over 214000 jews there and about ten times as many palestinians so surely...

I have loved this series since it first screened and still adore it today. It's just beautifully written, anti-establishment, camp sci-fi. Avon was always utterly glorious and had some fantastic lines, Zen and the Liberator were incredibly cool and Orac was always highly amusing as the fussy...

I have to admit I am somewhat bowled over by the Leema Acoustics Tucana Anniversary Integrated I have here on review. My gut feel is it has the speed and attack of my olive Naim (82/250) but with the bass slam and richness of the later 300DR stuff or say Chord Electronics...

I've had Kan's, SBL's and now passive ATC SCM40's on the end of my Naim system. To be honest I was never really happy with the Kan's or SBL's - for all their articulation they just didn't have enough scale or bandwidth although they are both superb for female vocals and singer songwriter type...

It's interesting to read that some people don't like the looks because I think the Leema stuff actually looks really nice - I love the way the LED's move around the volume control and I find the quality of machining and solidity of the casework to be really high end. The user interface too is...

Ryder, I haven't had enough time with it to make a definitive judgement but this is the first amplifier I have ever reviewed that has really made me think of defecting from Naim after 35 years with the brand. I do think that it might be better than my 82/250 yes, but I really need to switch...

Ryder, that's what surprised me the most actually - this thing is very fast indeed... As for active ATC's I suspect they're better than passive driven by anything but as a reviewer it's just not an option because it means for example I wouldn't be able to review this integrated amp. I did a...