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Note: I haven't posted in a while. This entire year has been absolutely insane with the impending birth of my first child basically overtaking everything else. She's out and healthy and all, but things have only really calmed down a week or two ago. Hopefully I can get back in the swing in 2019...

Yeah. As someone whose love of AV comes has distinct studio origins, I've always preferred the simplicity of studio monitors. I'm only now getting into passives and I'm intrigued by the possibilities of making my own cables for them, but sleeves, banana plugs, heat shrink and speaker wire just...

I have this old i7 pc lying around. The thing would make an excellent home theater hub and streambox but the CM Storm tower case I built it in is humongous and way too unwieldy for my entertainment unit. As such, I would like to move it to an horizontal form factor HTPC case but availability...

"The World?s Most Linear Amplifier Announced at CES 2018, the Massdrop x THX Achromatic Audio Amplifier (THX AAA?) 789 is a linear class-H bipolar amplifier with feed-forward error correction. It?s designed for objectivists who appreciate an incredibly clean, transparent amp?the sought-after...

How do you become an Audio God? One way is to drop Gupta money on a WAF-worthy setups like these... https://za.pinterest.com/emaileddiechan/audiophile-listening-rooms/ The other is to buy yourself an Audio Gd... or "Audio God" to the enlightened. For a Chinese company, Audio Gd have adopted...

I've resolved to buy no more headphones, DACs or headamps in 2018 (My HD6XX will ship in March but it doesn't count). As such, my AV exploits for the next 12 months will be devoted toward other kinds of gear, AV furniture, room acoustics, rack mounting, and maximising the effectiveness &...

So I just picked up the Technics SL-B2 second hand (obviously) and I want to get a nice phono preamplifier. Price preference is under 2K but I can wait if anything in that range would be an utter waste. At the moment, the brand reputation and price point of the Pro-Ject Phono Box E is where I'm...

:sd: My long awaited and endlessly tedious R2R11 purchase finally fell through. I'm inclined to blame the government because that's always easiest. I am still incredibly inclined to get one, but I feel a bit exhausted by the ordeal so I'm going to give it to myself as a birthday present in...

I've long been a user of Deezer for their geat music library and their price. The problem was that when weighed against Tidal's lossless offering, Deezer could only muster MP3 at 320kb quality (unless you owned a Sonos). That has just changed. It is now the second option for lossless CD...

So, sick of poor cables and committed to a better quality of audio connection, I used my Loot store credit and ordered these: http://www.loot.co.za/product/lindy-premium-gold-audio-cable-75-ohm-5m-5m-2-x-rca/hbjw-4116-g1a0 After waiting a few days the order finally arrived. However, the cables...

Other than vague memories of tape recordings and Phil Collins LP's, my personal history with music has pretty much always been digital (be it CD, MP3, or FLAC). However, since studying sound engineering in '05, I've always been fascinated by analogue media, especially vinyl. I've subsequently...

So I will soon be the DAC-less audiophile. I need something between now and the day I get my next desktop solution to hold me over. - It must be able to function as a desktop dac for the time being. - It must be able to function as a portable laptop solution (USB powered) so that it doesn't...

Hey all, I've recently purchased a Sanskrit 6th from Gearbest (it was on sale for about R1000). However, there seems to be clipping on the left RCA out and I can only surmise that there's a bad capacitor. Is there anyone here equipped to repair or mod such a unit? I would, but my soldering...

I don't know what Audeze ever did to the R&D team at Monoprice, but the Monolith division are seemingly hellbent on absolutely undermining them at every opportunity. Recently, they released the M1060's, which were essentially cheaper LCD-2's. Now they've gone and announced the M300's, the...