Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

If you go for the Crowns I'd give them a good clean. As they are PA Amps and possibly from a club/small touring system there is going to be a lot of smoke fluid residue in them.

And as mentioned before the fans in them can be noisy, not obviously a problem when the speakers are blasting loud music out but certainly audible at low volume.

Thanks.
I need to decide fast and find someone online that's still shipping at the moment.
Could do with this during lock-down

Nagaoka MP-110 would probably be the easiest to source. I got one from Juno years ago.

or the classic AT95e should be easy to track down, it's a great cart and should be around £30-40. The difference between that and the others mentioned is pretty small. After 100's of hours listening to them you get used to the characteristics but most people couldn't pick them out of a line up.

Good tips. I’d be buying them new if I went for them but good to know if I do ever buy pro kit used. As for the fans, by all accounts the amp is never driven hard enough at domestic levels to trigger them.

I may have got drunk and pulled the trigger on a £800 SVS 12” subwoofer used for £350. Irrational times.

I may have got drunk and pulled the trigger on a £800 SVS 12” subwoofer used for £350. Irrational times.

great beer purchase - well done!

Probably the nicest set up i've had was a pair of Cyrus CLS70s and a huge B&W subwoofer. Sounded great but was hard to "integrate" into family living.

Psa. Tidal hifi is on for £4 for 120 days then back to normal prive after that.

Does that apply to existing subscribers too?

Drunk purchase save - just had an email from Amazon that the seller has cancelled the sale and I’ll be getting a refund. Both relieved and irritated.

Where's this?

At work on my jack jones the whole time so I brought the Topping DAC from home. It’s alright this.

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Running the Tannoy Monitor Golds crossed with my sub using the MiniDSP. I even have EQ on the Tannoys.

I am a philistine, but it sounds great.

This is pretty fun. Must be listed to with earphones.

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Heh, that is fun.

I am in bed in a dark room, with wireless ear buds in, with ms mashton asleep next to me. At times listening to that it was hard to convince my brain that there wasn't a sound source in the room that would wake her up .

Is it a binaural recording of a moving playback source, or is it created in software, do you know?

Decluttering the house as we have nothing else to do and I found this.
I sold the record player years ago so this is no good to me, if it's any use to anyone they can have it.

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No idea, a friends just forwarded it to my in WhatsApp - I hadn’t seen the file name until now. Gonna do a bit of digging and try and find out.

I reckon software, it’s too clean to be recorded. Clever use of panning and volume changes with added reverb I guess.

Kind of want to set up my fostex speakers again and see if they can do their holographic soundstage thing with it.

It's rare for software to make such distant sound stage presentation, without a binaural microphone.

I'd love to know more.

From the source:

It’s great huh. Game changer for the headphones. Apparently its some kind of new reverb tool but it’s being billed as “8D technology”. There was an MP3 leaked and somebody sent me it but apparently there’s other not so good examples on YouTube.

Not googled it yet myself

Just sounds (no pun intended) that someone's done some better modelling for creating spatial sound effects probably based on real world sampling using a binaural mic.

No technical reason why it couldn't be done in software if you're model is good, you have the inputs on separate tracks and you have a plot of where each track should come from.

At the end of the day it's still just a stereo signal, it's just giving enough hints that the brain is filling in the rest.

i got one of these when they came out, for a try : https://www.sonneteer.com/product/the-bards-headspace/?v=79cba1185463

it has to do with redistribution of the frequencies between the two speakers.

i reckon that up ^there is the same thing, but is recorded to work best, rather than converting existing

Is there any way to tell whether my amp is buggered, my speakers are buggered, or both? Just started using my separates again with sonos and they're really wooly. To be fair, they're both pretty old (HK amp and Wharfdale speakers bought with my first post-uni paycheck in 1996) so they may just be worth relegating to the garage but if they're still "good" I'd like to keep one or both going.

Yes, borrow a second amp and speakers!
Swap each component out.

Thought so. Hard to do in lockdown though... assuming anyone would loan me one, getting it would be a challenge.

What are you comparing them to?

Well that's the point; almost nothing. I've got a sonos play which arguably sounds better but also it's not got anything to deaden the sound near it. I suppose I could move the whole stereo; it's not like i am able to go out much