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Anyone aware of an upgrade path for the CDQ, non oled? cheers

Yes, but there are differences beween the vinyl sound, CD, CACD, DVD audio and streamed sounds. All sound good, but different. Sound apart the streamed is most convenient, vinyl most satisfying, CD getting overtaken as it doesn't have the satisfying experience of vinyl or the streaming...

ie USB lead from CDQ to Toshiba laptop.

Bought a 4.8 for a tenner via Amazon, sounds great and can sit on the sfa choosing music. :-)

Listened to AIFF file hires download of ledzep via my CDQ/laptop/Jriver-wow, sounded really open, transparent, musical and all instruments in space well defined. A Different presentation than Im used to, was impressed. Got my original vinyl record out to compare, Rega P25/Benz Silver...

Apologies to the squeemish....

A word in your ear, wax? Couple of drops of olive oil in each ear for a week was prescribed to melt wax deposits prior to a visit to a nurse who hosed each ear with warm water. Fairly painless and improved hearing generally and equalised hearing where previously I was hearing better from the...

Agree Julf, at least an explanation for things we dont quite understand.....

I need to change my usb a to b cable from 1.8m - 4.8m, tried stretching it, would only go to 2.1m :-( anyone recommend a reasonably priced 4.8?

When I received the bills that's what they added up to, I was surprised; they amps needed 3 runs to sell.

Sold amps and charges for ebay plus add and pp were 18%, nearly a fifth of the £1100 selling price, not worth it unless you are desperate in my opinion.

was advised to drill a hole in the fixing points attach the wire through it before soldering, the extra direct connection making a sonic difference (?) any view on that. Tried it with a very fine drill bit and seemed to work ok.

I find the download has more air and space allowing the notes to breath, separating the frequencies, eg allowing better bass definition without clouding treble or midrange, purely subjective opinion having been in digital download denial for years. The Audiolab CDQ helped although have had much...

Pity that Cd and SACDs, players as well as the discs themselves were just reaching peak performance as they started to decline in demand, so lots of good stuff out there. CD sound though is limited and I find that downloading cd lossless through my Audiolab CDQ via jRIVER sounds better than...

Finding the right choice is difficult with big speakers buying second hand, not until you get them home can you really tell if they work, my Hyperion 938s have proved quite flexible between rooms.