Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

An 18" ported sub would be interesting.

Thank you :) I am quite deep into the rabbit hole and running a PA, acoustic effects are something I've had to wrestle with.

Amazing, thank you. Top drawer lufguss advice.

So Amazon says

As an Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber, you now have immediate access to premium quality streaming audio, at no extra cost – no action required.

Enjoy 75 million songs in HD, over 7 million songs in Ultra HD, and our fast-growing collection of spatial audio — immersive music you can now experience with your favourite headphones.

What does that actually mean to me? What's the best way to get this HD sound to my hifi, should I just continue with a chromecast into the amp's DAC?

On a separate note, how do I make Amazon's recommendations less shit? I find Tidal's suggestions are way better.

Yes but you might be better going analogue out of the chromecast, something about the CCA being able to send full 24/192 from its own dac but only 16/44 out of the optical or something. Might not be right.

Cheers, the Amazon music app doesn't actually tell you what it's casting HD music at so that may be all moot (and if I can't tell I guess it is anyway).

The ideal would obviously be an Echo with an optical out ...

An 18" (457 mm)˜ ported sub would be interesting.

Wot, like this?

That's a beast

Qobuz streams 24/96 through a CCA to my speakers (according to the app, 24/192 until the signal is cast). The dac in the speakers is limited to 24/96 so 24/192 might be possible..

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Meh. Fuck it.

He certainly won't be on the knobs for Andras Schiff...

Finishing tarty touches for the Cheviots. M5 brass socket cap screws to replace whatever imperial nonsense they used in 1978.

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Noice. I just did mine with stainless 2BA.

Now that the tarty anodised bits are fitted, how do they compare with the previous hpds, which from memory were in your own cabs?

i tried to get a Mac/CCA/Naim UnitQute2/amazon music to play ball but gave up in the end and got Tidal. cant remember exactly what pissed me off but i think it just wouldn’t control volume properly or maybe it would only work with the CCA dac and not the one in the Naim.

Tidal was already integrated with the Naim so i went with that.

Superb

I had 10” Monitor Golds in original IIILZ cabinets. They’re excellent, very detailed and still a nice big sound, but don’t do much under 100Hz so I had a 12” sealed sub too. Lots of fun, but pretty boomy and the sub didn’t go high enough / Golds low enough to really integrate perfectly. I had a digital crossover for that, with some DSP on the Golds to tame the ragged HF.

With the Cheviots I’ve ditched the sub, crossover and DSP. They’re driven straight from my Hypex amp and sound really very good. The DSP sucked the life out of the old setup (though I only realised this in comparison). The Cheviots do clean sparkly HF as well as really excellent bass, punchy and fast, both really well integrated and working perfectly together. It’s so nice to have a simple amp > speakers setup that doesn’t need any tweaking and sounds sublime. Really enjoying getting back into vinyl, which for some reason sounds even better.

tl:dr - they’re bangin

I currently have a rega io, ls50s with a rega deck, I would like to buy a dac and use an iPad to stream/play from my cheapo Argentinian tidal sub. Anyone have any experiences of simple, reliable and inexpensive(ish) solutions. Thanks S

Apple Airport Express (A1392), £38 second hand from Cex . Airplay from the iPad to it.

Brilliant.. Happy listening.

Loving this beast. There's a minor bit of ground hum with the low output cartridge that's not on my old lenco, so will need a service (and maybe a new arm/wiring) at some stage. Sounds bloody good though.

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And here's the electronics stack.

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Oh wow. I'd love to try one.

I've recently grabbed another one of these. It is absolutely perfect and has the the box, instructions, etc. I couldn't say no.

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Chromecast audio