Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Yeah that's what I've been doing, confirmed by Sonos support today.

I would have thought it was what everyone uses Sonos for, though!

Nah, hardly anyone uses Sonos for that, AFAIK, but it's totally possible.

The annoying thing is that you will still need an old skool remote or hands to switch the pre amp to the right source.

Why don't you either a) rip all your CDs and tapes to lossless digital and then have them on a hardrive so that you can stream then from sonos or b) subscribe to Google play music or Spotify or iTunes subscription and only rip the stuff you like that doesn't exist on those services. Google play music allows you to store that stuff online for streaming from anywhere.

This then means that all you need is a your decks plugged into the Sonos for party mixing funtime. Presumably your mixer has a phono stage so no purchases needed.

Et voilà all control is through the Sonos app.

^^^^^ that akai amp / reciever was the one in my parents front room as a kid
great bit of kit, sounded lovely to my ears at age 8 - 16

peter and the wolf to john peel and tommy vance it played them all and made them sound a pleasure

Decks into Sonos sounds like beatmatching hell - I get enough of a delay just running into a modern AV amp, let alone with the wireless on top of it!

Yes, that's a good point. Once it's done the ADC and then all the sonosnet synchronisation stuff you could easily be 0.1s out.

Yeah I'm not gonna be beatmatching into it. If I ever bother doing that again I'll use the speakers directly attached to that system. The latency between rooms is noticeable but not enough of a real world problem to worry about. The Sonos solution is to run a tape loop through CONNECT so you add latency onto your physical hi-fi!

I CBA ripping all my non-digital media but I do concede I've got some albums/songs on vinyl, CD, Spotify and some digital file somewhere.

I like having both worlds.

Inverse shim delay line.

Thanks to @Olly398 for the amp.

My old one (a Kenwood KAF 1030) will be up for free grabs soon in return.

I'm fine cheers. I have the missing knob btw (for whoever takes these).

Snowy's got it now.

@snowy_again - do you want these tannoys?

Where do I take my Rega Planar to get serviced? I'm based in North London, do people rate Audio Gold?

It works fine btw, I just feel like it could be improved, should I start by replacing the rubber band before I take it to them?

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Ha! Brill. Still got a pair if Diamond 9s free to a good home.

not sure what there is to service. there are plenty of upgrades around (platters, bearings, etc) and there isn't much to them. have a go yourself.

Does anyone want to buy my old Yamaha Amp (RX V359)? My mum has been using it for a few months but has just moved over to Sonos. It's in pretty much mint condition. £40

B&W 602s in our 10x11 ft living room is probably not going to go down well with our upstairs neighbours and is generally too much.

Thinking of either swapping with my old man's 601s or selling them and getting something like Audioengine P4s. Are they any good?
Amp id a NAD c355 BEE.

Replace the Rega belt and clean out the old bearing oil - Audio Origami do a kit:

http://www.audioorigami.co.uk/for-sale/

Hi, interested in the Yamaha amp if still available, I will PM you.

Speaker stands.

What a revelation. They're nothing fancy, but a pair of Mountech Z3's have really made a difference to the sound.

best upgrades you can do on a rega are firstly cartridge / arm / phonos / cables depends what rega you have . i would avoid audio gold i went in there with a problem with a rega arm they said £120 to solder so i did it myself and fitted it to a technics 1210 sounds fantastic !

Yo. Is this any good?

http://www.richersounds.com/product/turntables/project/essential-2/proj-essential-2-blk

Not bad - but this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REGA-PLANAR-2-with-RB250-REGA-BIAS-cartridge-/252124910400?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 is much better

Bluetooth gear recommendations, please.

I'm looking to get a device that plugs into the amp headphone socket and transmit the music via bluetooth. There seems to be a lot cheap on ebay, but I often get confused if they're transmitters ore just receivers. As the device must contain some sort of AD encoder there should be some quality differences, right?
Could someone recommend me one of decent quality with good range?

I the other end I have an old pair of decent speakers, that I'll put up in the kitchen. I was looking at the Vamp thing, but it doesn't support stereo and I'd like it to come with a fixed power supply so I don't have to charge batteries.
Anyone knows of a compact simple amp with bluetooth receiver?

You want transmitters and receivers that support APTX, this is a 'lossless' BT codec.

Your plan is to transmit music from a source/amp in one room to an amp in another. What will the source be?

Anyone know of a decent / affordable place to get an amp repaired? Bought a Pioneer SA 508 on eBay it seems like the right speaker channel has given up the ghost after one use. Bummer.