Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

The current model does, the AS301. Thinking of upgrading to the 701.

Open it up and give it all a blast with a compressed air can?

Will have a look and think and plan.

And then not do anything because money!

Thanks.

Frustratingly the zero is out of stock and I'm not keen on paying a premium for it, so wondering about a 3 instead, but then the cheaper Allo hat will put the audio outs in an odd place and the more expensive one is...well, more expensive and drifts into otp 2nd hand options.

Although I've been watching a lot of John Darko on YT and the Allo stuff seems to be well rated.

Great shout, I'll check out the state of the loft insulation tonight

cheap semi-temporary sound proofing?

As in just to break up the sound reflection, or to spare your neighbours?

If it's the first a load of speaker fabric from AliExpress stretched over DIY pine frame would be a good option. You could do them to match your interior without being too reddit audiophile, and the timber will come in handy for other stuff.

One of the less gash attempts Google images throws up

Proper curtains are another idea, being both useful and reducing reflection.

I can emphatically recommend Allo kit from my experience with the USBridge Sig. Sounds significantly better than my 2019 MacBook Pro for streaming. Many reviews have it rivalling vastly more expensive kit so I wouldn’t get distracted by second hand stuff at similar price points.

Quite like that, though given the amount of DIY I've already got on the list it'll be few months until I get round to it! Might have to just stick a few bits of foam around the room for the time being.

Curtains I certainly can do though.

TBH there's a sizable element of just not wanting to spend the money. Instead of £13+£40, it's £35+£50... which using manmaths feels like £50 vs £100

Ultimately the weak point in my system is the speakers (ancient Bose acoustimass) and the amp isn't anything special (bottom of the range CA). Unfortunately WAF (and to a lesser extent mini-H) limits me to those speakers.

Really nice stands for the Harbeths.

Cheers. Got them via Radlett Audio (recommended @BRM, thanks again), built to a custom height.

The open design really suits the sound from the Harbeths, huge mid-range.

What else are you running there? Rega turntable?

P6 turntable with Rega Elex-r, Rega Apollo-r and Cambridge Audio CXN V2 with Harbeth M30.1 speakers. QED XT25 speaker cable and Rega interconnects.

Love it as a set-up. The Apollo can at times do weird things to the mix (especially anything electronic) and the CXN is ok, but otherwise the P6/Elex-r and the Harbeths are amazing.

Thanks.. Your pic has got me thinking that i should retrieve my P3 and Audiolab 8000A from the garage, build some frugelhorns, and listen to what remains of my record collection!

However I bought some Dali powered speakers and a CCA to listen to Spotify and R3 in the kitchen and I'm quite pleased with it all. My tastes have changed in music and my remaining records just seem like nostalgia. The Dalis dont have the presence of the old system in the garage but time is rather short in supply to listen to music in a focussed way.

I could take the 8000A if you need it out of the garage.

Haha.. No chance.. It owes me nothing (cost £100 20 years ago)..

my remaining records just seem like nostalgia

What era are they from?

I was an inveterate record buyer through the late 80s to about 2005.. At the peak i had probably nearly 20k littering my house.. Sold most of the house 12s in the early 2000s and cleared the rest out in a wave of purges.. I bought anything and everything as long as it was cheap.. When you have that many records you start to become obsessed with novelty stuff (ie Table football Franz B tie ins or odd synth covers of Sleepwalk)... Its like a tunnel.. I always listened to jazz and classical music and as i get older i find most pop music fairly trite.. Probably over exposed!

To add.. The 90s were a glorious time to buy second hand records... Entire collections sold due to CD mania.. Disco 12s were fairly worthless.. Punk 7s..Motown Hi and Stax 7s.. All for 50p.. Fleamarkets and cheap charity shops..

That's a lot of vinyl.

https://youtu.be/3urXygZXb74

Pretty much it!

Great stuff. I'm still buying a lot of LP's, I've got the disease.

Just ordered a pair of Klipsch Heresy to put in the coffee shop, can’t wait to hear them. Going to run a Saturday morning music / hifi / coffee geek session playing a different genre each week, maybe one classic album and one contemporary number. Hoping it’ll start a bit of a community with people bringing interesting pieces of kit and music. Might get in touch with the hifi dealership in town once it’s going and see if they want to bring kit to demo too.

Is that the sort of thing you lot would come to if it was local to you?

Coffee nerdery and hifi nerdery? Fuck yeah.