Recent content by Foot Tapper

Chord and Townshend also make balanced input pre-amps.

First, I wouldn’t be put off by the age of your Nait XS. If it’s starting to sound slightly tired, book it in to Darran at Class A Servicing in Sheffield for a service. It should work wonders. If you do want a more capable amp, may I suggest going for something based around a better pre-amp...

Twaddle, indeed. Most normal people these days have never even heard of a tiny niche Hifi manufacturer like Naim. Only those with an interest will go to the trouble of researching beyond the latest Sonos system in John Lewis.

These Isoacoustic Gaia II feet have worked an absolute treat under our speakers. This on a concrete raft floor with thick underlay & decent wool carpet. Other products from Stillpoints and Townshend may well be even better, at considerably higher cost. Apologies for the somewhat large image...

Well, our Onix DNA-45 has now been installed and run in 2 systems. The first was a streaming set up with a Naim DAC-V1 in fixed output mode feeding the Onix DNA-45 into a pair of PMC DB1i wall mounted speakers. In effect, the DNA-45 replaced the pre-amp section of the Naim DAC-V1, plus its...

I have found a Naim CDS3 cd player, NAC32.5 and NAC52 all to have benefitted from a service within 10 years. In each case, the largest number of replaced components seems to have been the tantalum bead capacitors which gradually age over a number of years. I didn't notice the gradual...

I followed that rule too until I tried a set of Isoacoustic Gaia II under the ART Alnico speakers. The Gaias have stayed ever since. Our floor is thick underlay & carpet over a concrete raft floor...

No, as I don't use WAV. Apparently no to your second question.

Indeed Andy, which is why I said "supposed to be uncompressed" as I have seen many such erroneous claims. For the albums that we tried, FLAC level 0 files were 30% smaller than the corresponding AIFF ones, which correlates well with the Wikipedia article that you quoted. Following our little...

While setting up our music server, an Audiostore Prestige 3 with 2TB of SSD storage, we tried a few albums which were ripped to FLAC level 5 (i.e. compressed but lossless), FLAC level 0 (supposed to be uncompressed) and AIFF. The FLAC versions were ripped using the Prestige server's built in...

Best of health to you Colin. Thank you for everything you have done and are doing to let the rest of us derive more enjoyment from our recorded music. Best regards, FT

Thank you Avi, email sent. Best regards, FT

Are AR Sound still in business? I am interested in trying a Lunar RCA to DIN interconnect but have so far failed to receive any response from the company. Best regards, FT

The Townsend and Stillpoints feet/bases/platforms are both supposed to work extremely well, probably better than the Gaias. We opted for the Gaias for 2 reasons: Aesthetics - the Gaias are very discreet under the ARTs but the Townsend platforms were very noticeable Cost - Gaias were less than...

The Isoacoustic Gaia feet: Installed under the ARTs, sitting on the optional Isoacoustic spiked tripod platforms