Recent content by geetee1972

I’m willing to bet it wasn’t the room that didn’t work with the Obelisks but rather the amps. im not excluding the room possibility but suspect it more likely the amps.

If you're looking for 12au7 tubes you can also consider Langrex if you don't already know of them. They're a retailer based in Sussex that I've used for tubes, 12au7s in particular, that you can trust and rely on.

I was a long standing owner of Shahinian speakers and was always a die hard fan boy of them. I had Arcs for a long time, which I adored, and tried Obelisks at home several times, but each time I did the NAP200 I had struggled to manage them. They sounded great in the mid range and upwards, but...

This is a good point but it can get confusing. I think, and I could be wrong about this, that, for example, Roon will be acting as the interface on one device, e.g. your phone or tablet, but also as the music player on the other, the Roon Core. But, you can also have Roon set up so that it is...

Or have a very revealing system, there's always that possibility. But I agree it isn't a huge difference, maybe 5-10% if I were to try and apply some objective measurement to it. Broadly speaking the difference is in the overall dynamics with locally played offering a greater sense of...

Well one logical reason might be less room being taken up by storage. My listening room is only 3.5m by 3.6m so space is at a premium and my music server holds about 3000+ albums which would otherwise take up a lot of space and compromise the room aesthetics. Another might be ease of browsing...

That might tell you something about the Naim unit's ability to work well as a music server. And I agree that the difference between 44/16 and the higher rates is often quite marginal but it's there and I always find it worthwhile, especially when an annual membership to Qobuz means the cost to...

Have you got a music collection on CD already? If so then your first task is to rip that collection onto an SSD drive using something like DB Poweramp, which will create bit perfect copies of your music so it will all be 44khz 16 bit, just like on the CD itself. This is indeed time consuming but...

I have everything (around 3200 albums/2TB of music) on an internal SSD drive within my music server that also acts as a Roon Core and I then interface with the music, and play everything back through Roon. I am a big fan of the user experience of Roon.

The Compass is a small speaker so a small room; maybe 3.5m square?

Ah another hORNS owner. I have the FP15s currently playing off 180 solid state watts from Concert Fidelity and they sound fabulous, although I do think that this is ostensibly because the amps are biased to Class A for the first 30 watts and since the speakers never push a need beyond that this...

To more directly answer your question - the Azur is performing two functions currently, that of music server and DAC, although in reality the 'server' part is multiple processes, not just one. In truth the DAC is also - that being Digital to Analogue conversion and then an amplification stage to...

They're a notoriously challenging speaker to match with an amp. It's not just that their impedance curve drops to something like 2ohm in the lower registers; even when you use an amp with a lot of current on hand they can still sound like there's something missing. I auditioned them three years...

Oooh I really like the look of this system, makes me want to hear it very much. I am especially curious as to the speaker/amp combination. I have a pair of Horns FP15s, which look to have a very similar design approach to your Hecos, i.e. huge box, huge 15" bass driver, horn loaded mid range and...

Other than the impact of physical dimensions, there is no such thing as a speaker (or sub woofer) being too large for a room. They can however be too small for a room and as pointed out above, your room's acoustics may cause a problem, but this can happen across the whole frequency range. My...