Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Afternoon all. Can anyone recommend a place or person to recap a Linn Klout in London?

If your South East then here:

http://www.billyvee.co.uk/

thank you Cornish Bike, just spoke to them and they cannot get the parts anymore. :-(

if anyone else knows a way around this i'd be most obliged

This guy has a good rep:
http://www.goodwayselectronics.co.uk

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Not quite at the audiophile end of the spectrum but...

If I wanted to convert a broken old '60s radio to a Bluetooth speaker what sort of speaker would I need?

A 3-5" "full range" speaker driver like this?

In which case what sort of internal amp power would I need to power it at a min?

Cheers.

by chance, has anyone got a cheap / old phono stage they are looking to sell? It'll be a stop gap for me until I buy a new amp with built in phono stage.

thank you BRM, I've been in contact with Darren at Class A and think i'll be sending send it there..

You mean it will be a stop gap before your descent into a spiral of ever more exotic and expensive phono pre amps surely.

I have one I'm not using but it's not cheap or that old. What sort of budget do you have in mind?

Are there any WiFi headphones around? I dont mean Bluetooth, I mean can i use it with chromecast or such?

No idea but it seems impractical in terms of battery life and portability... What’s the useage?

I don't see how a phone and Bluetooth headphones wouldn't do this better.

watching movies at home.

I'm after a reasonably priced DAC.

Amazon Firestick works with bluetooth headphones for doing that.

cool! will look into it! Thank you Aggi.

I have a fairly entry level one spare after a recent upgrade sent you a PM

There's a lot of choice these days, what input/sampling rates/output do you need. Personally I like AES/96..24/Balanced so the Lavry DA10 works for me. There's loads of good network players that do it all up to DSD and come in cheaper than standalone though.

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Yeah, choice is baffling - in this instance this is for the PC/workstation, so reality is primary (but not always) input will be USB and out Headphones. Sources Streaming/CD/Rip etc.

So that just leaves pretty much any DAC made in the last 15 years :) I have had good results from a Gustard item, USB->AES, not really what you want but I think they do budget through to high end without stupid prices. Some secondhand stuff to look for might be a benchmark DAC or even Lavry DA10. Not sure on the prices for those any more. It does depend if you want to spend £50/£500/£5000 though.

Just checked out my list on eBay, looks like prices have picked up on most of those items, I must have bought in a dip.

Smart hifi guys...

Bought an old Rotel Amp (Rotel RA-810A) of Dazza to tide me over... it sounds ok but is a bit ugly/worn.

Whats the consensus on these... https://nadelectronics.com/en_GB/product/d-3020v2-hybrid-digital-amplifier/

Paired with Kev 101 ref models and a Project Turntable.

Cheers.

Did heaps of research about a year ago before buying an Amptastic on here. That one was high up on the list, online census was in its favour

Now though it's all about home pods, looking to get one or possibly two and have a great sounding system that takes up zero space

Cheers for the reply. I’ll get a HomePod when Siri isn’t crap and it can use Spotify. I have plenty of vinyl so need a real hifi set up still... love the audiolab amps but not the price.

Oh need phono and aux in too. Nowt more. Nowt less.