Recent content by r_w

I like HiFiMan HE-500, lovely smooth presentation, recommend a listen.

Van Damme offer great value, used in many good studios. Their own site is 'VDC Trading'

These RCA plugs are also good VFM : 'VDC pro phono plug'

This is good advice, I'm having a total house rewire soon so it will be easy to add a dedicated consumer unit / radial circuit for the system for not much extra than the main job.

You could have a point there but since I'm running fully balanced (Vega DAC> Jeff Rowland Pre> Revel Subs > ATC 50s) and thus use XLRs throughout (apart from A/V front > HT bypass input on Pre) I doubt I'd be able to test for this at sufficient quality to verify it. There doesn't seem to be...

Yes fair enough with the return policy. Myself... Luckily I managed many years ago to buy a 100 metre reel of very heavy guage and very pure solid silver balanced wire for £600, obviously making it £6 per metre, I've used most of it up now by wiring the entire system, including the A/V part...

I have to be honest I'm struggling a bit with the price of those and wonder if they really are £200 better than self terminated Van Damme, Belden, Supra, Mogami, etc. E.g. 3 pairs of those is greater than the price of the Audiolab M-DAC, making the value proposition rather poor in...

Good point, I forgot to mention to use good quality solder, I also use the Cardas silver stuff. I've wired my entire system (about 4 times now due to config changes over the years) and two entire recording studios... believe me that's a huge amount of soldering! There's much comfort in...

Van Damme, Belden, Mogami, Supra all make very good wire which can be bought off the reel in 1 metre lengths. Terminate (solder them yourself) any of those brands with Neutrik and you will have exact (shortest) length cables that will hold their own against the crazy fools (best said in Mr...

I almost always make my own

Production comprises of the entire presentation layer of the composition, mixing is only one element of the presentation layer makeup, but it influences the end result in a very large way. ;-)

As with Yamaha NS10s. (very sadly most of our music collections are mixed on them)

In studios it can sometimes help to boost the bass a very small amount particularly for smaller near fields to prevent the engineer/producer from mixing with too much bass energy, note that minimum no of clicks on this (indented pot for ATC 20A Pro) would be advisable. For playback flat ought...

I hear many differences with cables, but whether I've heard £1000 worth of differences is quite another thing.

I think reviews have genuine value when shortlisting kit to evaluate. ... as long as you take a balanced view of more than one opinion, preferably from those whos opinion you respect, based on what they say about kit you know.