Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

It does have a USB port I assumed it's just for playing files from. I can have a try though as I've got pi about doing nothing.

Oh yeah. I’ve tied my mind in knots with this. The seeds need time to germinate.

I've got some Q Acoustic 3020 in white that only have a few hours on them, got the box too but you can buy them online for less than £150.

There's a tiny pair that I thought had the best balance fo their size. PSB Alpha P3, they also come in under your budget from Sevenoaks Audio. I would buy these depending on the size of the bookshelf, heard them a few months ago in the showroom and liked them.

Topping D70 is my best dac :)

All depends on budget. What are you trying to drive? Power amp inputs? What kind of control and metering do you need? Do you want DSD capability or will 96/24 suffice? What sort of digital input will you use, USB, coax, optical, AES?

Personally I like Lavry, the DA11 is very good second hand.

Mytek, Benchmark or Schiit all come up a lot in the hi-fi forums.

Since you don't seem to keep kit very long I would go for something from Schiit, you can sell it on pretty easily when you are tired of it.

I can recommend the Gustard stuff, especially USB-> AES conversion. In my experience this is a good stage to keep isolated from the dac.

If you want an impressive dac then people like Prism might be the place to look, obviously Chord have the poly+mojo to consider.

Cheers man,
These look like a good deal too - maybe I could stretch to £200.

https://www.sevenoakssoundandvision.co.uk/p-42657-psb-alpha-p5-bookshelf-speakers.aspx

Almost just want to dive in, rather than suffer weeks of indecision.

I’m tempted by a pair of B&W dm601 - can be had for under £200 on eBay. But also wary of buying second hand when I have no real clue.

Haha, I wonder what people think of me with all this chat.

I've actually had the same turntable, pre, amp and speakers for ten years. Only started fiddling now, and even then the only thing that's actually changed is a pair of Tannoys. That and swapping an old Sonos Play:5 for a Chromecast as the digital source. All my hifi choices are very frugal and mainly DIY. Apart from the Tannoys, nothing cost more than £100.

The DAC request was a joke at Steves' expense. I'm very happy with the built in Chromecast DAC, mainly for the simplicity and the fact it cost £22 and is doing everything I want really well.

This looks reasonable for a turntable too?
https://www.sevenoakssoundandvision.co.uk/p-41549-pro-ject-primary-e-turntable.aspx

you can’t see the difference, I give up.

Net hugs

Thats actually quite cool

I’ve fucked about with it all again to run it from 1 amp, using EQ instead of separate amplified channels to drop a few dB from the top end. In-built speaker crossovers back in use. Coincidentally it allowed me to play the same tune from both my phone and my computer into separate inputs, one going via the DSP and one just completely straight conventional setup, flicking between them instantaneously by switching inputs on the remote. A-B the DSP sounded a bit murky and the regular setup sounded a bit bright, relative to each other.

I’ve got baked and listened to it in standard config all morning and had a great time. I think I’ve reached the conclusion that I just need to chill out about it. You were already there I know, but you can’t beat experience😐

Thats actually quite cool

whazat?

The custom build. Made to be matchy matchy with the other components.

Ha, triggered!! I must have you mixed up with another thread dweller. I think there are gains to be had over a chromecast but sometimes it's better not to open the box.

My latest learning curve is Plex

It's much easier to custom build these days, so much support for it. I've done a few projects and love it.

it's better not to open the box

Amen. I’m happy in my ignorance

@StevePeel and anyone else who uses dbpoweramp, having some issues naming ripped cd's. I can't seem to figure out how to get dbpoweramp to create and name the ripped cd into folders which have the artists name and the albums name?
right now the folders are called "Artist Name" "Album Name"
Currently slowing down my ripping game, who wants to go back and manually enter artist and album names.
Any help appreciated.

Under the naming tab I have:

Album Artist\Album\Tracknum Artist - Title

and the outcome is what you describe.

I'm doing a multi encode, so FLAC and M4A are outputting to this path
Volume/ Ripped 2020/ FLAC/ Album Artist/ Album Title/ Source Path/ Source Filename

But the album artist and album title don't have the correct names. I've tried using dynamic naming, but I feel like I'm just confusing myself..

is the metadata function working?

can't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't be giving you the right artist and album names... I usually use the review metadata button just to check for any obvious errors.

It's finding the correct metadata for the cd's just not naming the folders that they are ripped to.
So it's currently ripping a beatnuts cd, and it's doing this....

1 Attachment

this is exactly what it says in the dynamic naming box on mine:

[IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][][album][track] [artist] - [title]

I can't remember exactly how DBPoweramp does it and I'm not on the machine with it installed but I think generally you need to put them in square brackets [album artist] (or possibly curly brackets) to get it to work.

I bet corny has his square brackets fscked up.

Tried that and it seems to name the files in the folder, but doesn't name the folder..
Hmmm