Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Yeah, I should have added a troll face.

Any chance you'll be open 27th December?

Alas, there is no merge function in the gui.

Wait, there's two hifi threads?

No not there, we’re planning on opening in January. Northampton shop will be open with a turntable and a pair of Heresy IIIs.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/129650/

Maybe @Velocio would merge them?

Otherwise, maybe every could agree to close one?

I'll merge the other, into this one... and will make hifi one word in this one.

All my wishes come true 🙏🏻

That's all you wish for?

I'm a simple soul

done

Groovy baby, yeah.

any interest in this unit from anyone here? 70 wide, 102cm tall

its from tylko, make me an offer

3 Attachments

oh does have a small chip on top back left corner

2 Attachments

Current situation

2 Attachments

That looks great 👌

Did you sell the dog for vinyl!?!?!

Very nice

Hi there,

Today I received a pair of Cabasse Galion V in (unfortunately) pitty condition, to my (very limited) knowledge, Cabasse is a very decent brand, is it worthy to give them some love ?

1 Attachment

You're probably high enough up there to have missed the flooding at Weedon Bec?
Been pretty grim I believe. Somebody sitting on the pub roof I'm told

Yes.
You'll find lots of information on this french site:
https://www.forumcabasse.org/w/index.php?title=Galion&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop

Yeah it’s been getting worse through the day today with the run off from the land. TBH I don’t know the area that well but yes we are well up the hill. Hopefully all is well, I left about 5.00 today and there was no problem.

I’m custodian of this superDAC for the weekend. It’s a Valve Audio Devices DAC-12 R2R converter and preamp. The valves have some part to play in the DAC as well as the preamp circuit I’ve read.

It might be the best sound I’ve had in this room, it’s lovely. I wish I had my SL1200G here to compare it with fancy vinyl playback but I’ll just have to enjoy this in isolation rather than mess about comparing sources.

I’m streaming Qobuz through it from my Cambridge MXN10. I could probably be doing better - the machine’s owner says I should be streaming DSD via USB but I don’t think I can get NOFX on super hi-res. I can’t figure out how to get the toslink input working to try CDs through it, it’s not a very intuitive thing with the controls. I’ll get there I expect.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/valve-audio-design-vad-12-dsd-dac-dual-mono-a-dac-coming-from-uk.742606/

2 Attachments

Which was all great until it all went quiet.
And then the smoke started piling out of it and was so persistent I thought it was on fire.
And then I got the lid off and this expensive looking transformer doesn’t look very well.
And now I’ve got a difficult conversation with the owner tomorrow when I was hoping just to have a nice relaxing day listening to digital music.

2 Attachments

• IMG_6924.mov
• 

And then the smoke started piling out of it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxiq7k6bKUA