Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

I went to this yesterday. It's huge and the sound is huge, and I love the DIY element, I'm not convinced it sounds as good as it looks though (there was a lot of room treatment in there), but obviously it can only sound as good as the recording.

Could have done with a programme and timed slots, so there wasn't 1/100 chance of listening to a genre other than jazz.

Weird that Technics have totally different design of motor in the 1200G.

Anyone on here fancy an Audioquest Dragonfly USB DAC?
£30 inc postage includes a forum donation
Before I try eBay

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Update - I have bought some Edifier active speakers which can do bluetooth, coaxial or optical. £150 or so. Even I managed to set them up in no time. The bluetooth connection to my iphone worked immediately, and have had the internet radio on most of the day and it all sounds very good to me. They look and feel way more than £150 worth, and the remote is neat. Thanks to everyone here I have saved about £200 to spend on something else I would like but don't quite need.

I went twice, once it was things like 15 mins of wind chimes which was hardly showing the speakers off, another time it was the reel-to-reel, but a so-so live recording. My mate heard Björk one day, that was probably quite fulfilling.

The more I read about the guy behind it the more I think he's a bellend, sadly

Thankfully didn't have to endure any wind chimes. Was a reel to reel recording when I was there. Bjork, yeah there's certainly some depth to her work, and Mark Bell was a great producer.

I do like the DIY aspect, especially amps, but the amount of modifying of a Technics turntable is hardly worth it.

Those speaker kits very expensive considering you have to build the cabinet yourself, and the JBL drivers they use aren't that expensive.

Managed to get the usb DAC and Airplay working on a raspberry pi by installing Ubuntu Server (64bit) instead of RasberryPi OS. Works flawlessly now.

It’s also running pihole which is a network level ad blocker, so it’s at least doing something when not in use.

This works pretty well too :-

https://ropieee.org/xl/

Nice! I’ll look into that - suspect my current setup is a little too command-line and will probably stop working next time something reboots etc

The Roipee project is brilliant. I'm running 4 pi's for audio and screen/remote with very few problems.

Funny enough one of the screens is not restarting after a nightly reboot.

Does it make whichever Pi it’s installed on only capable at doing music?

Quite keen to keep Pi-hole running on the same hardware.

It is all consuming on the Pi.

Worth a separate Pi if you want to team it to a screen or audio hat.

They seem to be coming back into stock.

Nice! I might do this with a second one in the office.

What I have now is essentially just a fancy HomePod and the only ux being the option to AirPlay to it.

Looking for a sub-£100 bluetooth receiver that I can put in the aux input in my amp. Would prefer something simple that will just sit on top of the amp, RCA or 3.5mm fixed output that I can just press a button to pair. Any recommendations? Seems to be a plethora of different bluetooth standards these days which is making a choice difficult.

I picked one up for a friend on Amazon, sub £20.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C4YJMM3L?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

It worked fine out of the box. You do need to power them although this one has battery power which I thought was useful, especially as a power supply might be noisy.

It's not 'audiophile' but it does a lot of the job without being close to £100.

Yeah that’s the sort of functionality/complexity I’m looking for. So if there was a kind of premium equivalent of that and no silly screens or stuff that the more expensive ones seem to have, that’s probably what I’m looking for. Another option is to get a Bluetooth dev board and see if I can build it into my preamp.

Finally got set up in the new gaff.

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Nice. What programs/software do you run on the mini headless? Thanks ~ Si

It does have a screen it's just not there. Just running Tidal, iTunes and SoundCloud. I've only really got the mini after my MacBook gave up the ghost and I needed something to run an old version of Photoshop on. Does sound better than the NAD CD player I had though.

Cross-post, offering a currently not working lovely vintage rotel amp for free if anyone fancies a project....

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17103214/

Bit of a dredge, and please excuse my audiophile ignorance, but these look like exactly what I'm after to drive a little pair of bookshelf speakers to use with my projector. Any reason these chifi amps wouldn't do that?

Can't see any reason why not (assuming projector output is audio rather than digital).

Other option would be a second hand AV receiver for the inevitable sub.

I've been burned too many times recently with second hand audio equipment (see Rotel amp I'm looking to offload, amongst others) so want to go new. This one you linked to looks like it can run a sub, which is attractive.... ?

Check out cheap audio man on YouTube.

He's gonna have to change his name sound to Shouty Audio Man.

Aw, I like him, he’s enthusiastic and doesn’t hate on everyone who has a different view from his own.