Recent content by Robert

Seconded. Near as dammit same inductance and capacitance too, just more (finer) strands and much softer jacket.

Rob Watts gets quite animated on the subject. All I can say is the sound is superb so perhaps we have to tolerate these niggles and quirks but this was his view on PSUs: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hugo-tt-2-by-chord-electronics-the-official-thread.879425/page-588#post-15538022

I understand and partly agree with the arguments Chord make for using SMPS, but the amount of leakage current going into the chassis of the TT2 and Mscaler really should be sorted. One hand on the mains chassis grounded Sugden amp and then lightly touching the Chord product with the other hand...

I've not found it fussy with partnering cart but mine usually holds a Lyra Delos and no complaints.

Mine sits on the previous version which looks almost the same. It's an 8 section unit though, on its side and fully loaded. It does fit. Sometimes I put an iso acoustics zen platform below decks but wouldn't swear it's always better.

Sadly that thing exemplifies much TT design today. Massive, high mass & bling with a silly price tag. The rip sounded decent if quite noisy.Bass a bit dry and overdamped.

I'd picked up on the advice from Rob Watts on an old Head-Fi thread. Basically if you want to run speakers use the single ended outputs which limits output to 50%, so 9w instead of 18w. Still enough for sensitive speakers in many situations. I'd you do connect to balanced XLR just apply common...

Thanks To You - Boz Scaggs.

Try it - according to Watts in the video some people use a Mojo with sensitive speakers.

I think the idea was to engineer enough power to drive any headphone including some very inefficient and low impedance planar types. Peering into the little window on top I can see what looks likes 8 miniature smd mosfets with a hex bolt through their tab into the bottom half of case acting as...

Count me as another convert to Chord dacs and for much the same reason. While the Chord power amp is back at the company having its PSU fans fettled, I tried Rob Watts advice to drive 'speakers direct from the TT2 dac. Best digital I've ever heard into the Tannoys (18w into 90dbw sensitivity is...

When I see mid range Nag cartridges I think of Opal Fruits. Just saying :)

306 is a lovely power amp and one of their best designs. It works great in most systems where you don't need a ton of power or drive sub 4 Ohm loads. Serviceable too, nothing wild or whacky inside.

I still buy and use CD, not least because the provenance of files on streaming services can sometimes be questionable. With CD you can at least pick the best version, which is often the initial release before the remastering squad get to work. I don't play the discs though. I have a little slot...

It does show up in the tests, but it doesn't kill the SINAD which could still be amazingly good. My point is that ASR puts very heavy weight on this particular measurement to the extent it routinely uses this number to rank product, and that can be highly misleading as an indicator of real world...