Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

The last one I had (Sharp) had an optical in, and mic port. You can then get a little external mic to plug in as well.

Naming on a little recorder player is a mission, and I don't remember being about to move track locations around, but you could put in track breaks and merge - although I had a MD separates deck with an easy remote so never bothered.

Something like this

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332599827672

Plus an external mic like this :
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253095537534

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I bought one of the Sony portable MD's when they came out, still works today. Was playing Ry Cooder - Paris Texas the other day and really enjoyed it. I've got a box of ripped CD's on MD, loved the format for years then MP3 came along.

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I'd say it's likely the capacitors have failed. It depends how happy you are with soldering old ones out and new ones in.

You could just change the whole board for new crossovers but I'd also include the working one so they are all matched.

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Anybody got tip for cheapo dac?

how cheap? these are supposed to be excellent:
xiang sheng

I've got a FiiO Olympus DAC that I no longer use if you're interested.

OK I’ll pm you, thanks.

It’s for tv > amp, the phones plug is wierdly noisy.

@BRM ta!

I've replied to the PM, but just read this. The Olympus is a headphone DAC, if you are going from tv to amp you might be better off with something inline like the FiiO D03K.

As luck would have it, I also have a D03K that I'm no longer using (although I'll need to find it first).

Same, read & replied to pm, then this^

Headphone jack is kind of more useful around the house, using a jack now out of the tv, analogue out has wierd singsong bleepy background noise.

Behringer UCA202 - cheap and looks it, but sounds pretty decent

potentially daft question:

I have an old A&R A60 amp running some Wharfedale Diamond 7.1 speakers. I'm wanting add another set of speakers for the kitchen. QED do a switch box which theoretically should allow this. The amps manual says "outputs are designed for driving speakers of 8 ohms nominal impedance or higher. 4-8 ohms speakers can be used where marked as such. 4 ohms speakers can be used but not a high volume."

The switch box says "Minimum Load Impedance - 4 Ω (Using Two Pairs of 8 Ω Speakers)."

The diamonds are 8 ohms but the cheap Mission LX1 i'm thinking of getting are 6 ohms. What I need to know is - if I run them both through the QED switch box will anything blow up?

I think not but as I don't actually understand any of the information I've written above -any confirmation or warning would be great.

thanks!

Unlikely that anything will blow up, but the amp will struggle to provide enough current to drive both sets of speakers cleanly, at least at anything above very low volume.

That increases risk of damage to speakers.

Best solution is to get another amp, and use one amp per set of speakers, with switching on the input side.

Does anyone want the Sony PS-6750 turntable I was selling earlier? I offered to buy it back off the bloke I sold it to, but I really don't have any room for it. you will not get a better tt for 325...

I can bring it back up to London mid next week.

That is a sexy beast...

ah, ok. I figured it might not be as simple as I first thought...

thanks!

Any recommends on wall mounted speaker brackets. Need to child proof the front room in the coming years. Would be for a set of larger tannoy 605s and smaller linns.

Let me know

I have some hefty q-acoustic ones you can have.

Has anyone got a decent mc phono kicking around? I’m looking for something to feed into my brio-r, want to change the cart on my turntable to a denon mc cart.

A bit low end for you let I guess, but, any recommendations for a mini hifi with USB and dab? Not fussed about new or 2nd hand, summat relatively budgety, well, quite budgety I guess. Ta. Jon

One of the little Denons

E.g. this

edit - meant to be a reply to @jontea

Ta. Seen a Denon on richer sounds, comes as a bundle with speakers, Pioneer any good? I know they're part of the same group as Technics and Marantz.

I bought one from Richer and paid a bit more for some monitor audio speakers.

I'm sure the Pioneers will do the job well enough. They'll let you listen to a few different speakers if you go into the shop, although tbh, what you can hear with stuff in a huge rack and a shop full of people is somewhat limited.