Recent content by marshanp

We had the young Samoan tenor Pene Pati in Berlioz's Damnation of Faust at Symphony Hall last Saturday. He was terrific (the whole thing got 5 star reviews) and will return as Pinkerton in June. If the Cio-Cio San (Japanese soprano Maki Mori) and Sharpless (Christopher Purves) are as good it...

Thank you, loosend... If there is anybody else with a ZH270 that they would like to find a new home, I'm all ears :)

Money waiting for the right ZOTL amp...

Some time ago (18 months?) there was, I believe, a David Berning ZH270 amplifier offered for sale here. I was sorely tempted but didn't indulge myself, and now that thread has been tidied away. I'm still sorely tempted... so if by chance the person who offered it for sale still has it and sees...

It does indeed look nice :) I'm guessing that "30-60" indicates a conservatively rated 30wpc (so 60w together). Not enough for my insensitive speakers :( Otherwise, I'd be working out how to get it from Hebden Bridge to Shrewsbury!

I did the downsampling thing when I acquired my Auralic streamer/server and TEAC UD-503 DAC; the whole range from 24/192 to 16/48 and 16/44, plus 320kbps and lower resolution MP3 (and corresponding AAC) bitrates. All were created via dBpoweramp. The originals were the best available classical...

I cannot see anywhere the amount of weight each SVS foot is designed to support. They are a simple mechanical device; there must be an optimal amount of squish at which they work properly. An SB-1000 Pro subwoofer weighs 11.8kg, while an SB-16 Ultra weighs 55kg - yet both supposedly work with 4...

Do you have your photos in the wrong order? The phono version is the black one, yes?

Just goes to show I'm more familiar with peccadilloes than with other tools...🙂 Come to think of it... it's "straitjacket", isn't it? 🤔

Don't forget to keep your head in the same, very specific position relative to the speakers... consistent to less than a millimeter. A straightjacket may help; that and a vice.

Bargain - can't believe this hasn't been grabbed. I reckon Auralic stopped making the Mini only because it was taking sales from their very expensive streamers. Crucially, it has more versatile input/output options than other physically small streamers and can be used as a file server with an...

To be clear, I am absolutely in favour of broadcasters being required by law to pay rights holders when their recordings (in whatever format) are broadcast. For rights holders to claim that they are subject to "harm" if they don't get to sell individuals the same digital file twice is another...

"It's unclear how the change will be enforced". It won't be. Laws which are unenforceable (quite apart from having no basis in logic) should not be in place.

You have already purchased the digital file. The CD is merely a storage medium and the label "format shifting" is meaningless. This may well be copyright law in the UK... but if so, it is a silly law and it is no surprise that it is widely ignored. What is surprising is that those responsible...

SXL 6000, that's the one you want 🙂