Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

They are black!

Don't forget your Shakti Stones: http://www.shakti-innovations.com/product/shakti-stone/
:P

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Let me do some reading and come back to you.

I would recommend you freeze your cables and get a Shun Mook resonance disc or two. Other upgrades are pointless.

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Oh, I think we're pretty sure.

speakers should be upgraded before the Minx

How bout these b&w?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13939980/

those celestions look teh sex

yeh the celestions look great.

Anyone have anything like this ?

I quite like the idea of being able to stream from my macbook / phone / ipad, I have a rotel amp and the B&W speakers mentioned upthread.

Also if anyone can suggest somewhere to service a planar 2, I keep putting it off. The main issue being the tone arm doesn't extend to the centre of a 45. I'm sure there are some things like a new elastic band I could do myself, but this seems beyond me.

Yeah, I have a very similar unit also from Logitech:

• Easy to use
  
• Works well, only issue is needing to restart it every now and again
  
• I often forget it's streaming from my phone and wonder into a different room, causing the music to cut out
  
• Isn't going to win any awards for sound quality, a limitation of bluetooth
  
  

For similar money I'd suggest a Google Chromecast audio, sounds better, also easy to use and doesn't care about your phone wondering off. Problem is not everything supports it (e.g. Mrs Hobs can't user her iTunes, which isn't always a bad thing...)

I have one of these. It uses wifi rather than bluetooth, so the sound quality is much better ...

https://gramofon.com/

I have one of these. It uses wifi rather than bluetooth, so the sound quality is much better
https://gramofon.com/

Do you know of a thing that does the opposite?
ie. I plug it into my amp so I can listen to my records on the speakers in my kitchen?

Are the speakers powered? If so you’ll need a line out (probably tape out) on your amp and some kind of wireless transmitter/receiver setup.

Actually, passive speakers atm...

I have a little bluetooth reciever/amp thing there now that works fine for phone streaming, but it cant recieve signal from the living room. So I thought taking it over wifi might work better.

Thanks Phil it seems perfect. Does it work with itunes, i'm guessing so. They show compatible apps and I guess they just don't pay to show apple ones, as airplay works with any wifi compatible device.

I have used a basic philips WiFi speaker and it was a little frustrating.

I don't use Apple stuff, so I can't say on iTunes. I use mainly tracks directly from my android phone or my GF's android phone. My friend plays Spotify through it, which it does flawlessly too.

I also have the same music piped through to my kitchen, but that is phono cabled through to an old Arcam Alpha amp and a pair of Maudaunt Short MS10s. It's great to be able to just select stuff from a phone whilst cooking up a good meal, drinking and relaxing.

if she has iphone or ipad you can use the allcast app to send music to chromecast...

I have Celestion UL6s (also bought from Dazaa) and they're amazing. If those are anywhere similar, buyer won't be disappointed

Why did you choose this over a chromecast audio for £30?

Simple, it was a gift. I've never even looked at a Chromecast, so I wouldn't know the difference tbh.

Edit: Okay I've looked it up ... A Chromecast it seems is a video device (primarily), with HDMI output rather than phono. It's not a hifi device that can plug directly into your CAT5 network, and directly into your hifi system. I would ask you the question, why would you even consider these devices to be comparable?

Because a Chromecast Audio is absolutely comparable. You can't plug it into CAT5 but other than that, it's the same. The Gramofon does look nifty.

Ah, okay I didn't realise there was an audio version. D'oh!

Yes, the Gramofon does do some lovely stuff. For instance, if you're listening to a playlist on Spotify, the person with that phone can go out of range, and Spotify will just keep on playing the playlist. Also playlists can be editted or added to by multiple smartphones running AllPlay Jukebox.

I was tempted by a Gramofon, but digital output of Chromecast sealed the deal. I'd definitely gift the Gramofon to others, nicer package.

Does anyone know where to get hold of monitor speaker dust covers / jackets ?
I can only find some US ones - got to be somewhere UK I would of thought.

Try looking for a UK company that makes guitar amp/pa speaker covers on the auction sites, they will usually make you something in custom sizes.

Just sat down in the "studio" after a four week decorating marathon.

The UL6s are perched on chunky shelves either side of my desk at ear level. They're sitting on foam pads and angled in. Got the Adam A5x's on foam pads on the desk. Haven't plugged them in yet. Next purchase is going to be a monitor switcher.

Had the Yamaha Ca600 repaired and serviced, re-jigged things and now have the amp and turntable on a little side-car style industrial shelving unit to one side so I can reach over and tweak volume and whatnot. Atm I'm streaming to the Yamaha and Celestions with the QED u-Play and it sounds fucking great.

Got loads of work to do tomorrow and I need to be sharp and well rested... but I've got half a bottle of half decent scotch and this is sounding dangerously amazing. Gah.