Recent content by DeShizz

What didn't you like about them?

That's super irritating, I always had a soft spot for the brand. I'm surprised they didn't sell well. What do you mean by the damage done by HiFiCorp though? Well whoever this new importer is they're hard to find.

Might be because I haven't looked hard enough... but what happened to them? I remember we bought a pair of Diamond 8.4's (since long gone) at HiFiCorp, must have been more than a decade ago. Now it seems the Diamond 10's are really stepping it up in the budget arena. I've found a few samples on...

... Svenmill fabrics?

2/6 correct (Neil Young and Mozart), rest 320 with one 128k. On My PC's onboard audio, with Technics SL-1200's. For me whether I can tell the difference is completely irrelevant. I want to remove all weak links insofar as possible in the chain. Digital source material is probably the easiest...

Pretty much done. I had a massive Ethernet cable run from the study (router and fibre box) to the room through the roof that hooks into a 24-port switch, so we'll never be starved for connections. There's also a WiFi AP there. The trunking going up into the roof is pretty large. There's two...

The R800 set was a stop-gap just to get some audio going (being subjected to the built in Optoma speaker was really shameful). All the Bookshelfs I mentioned are going for about R4000, so that would be my ballpark budget for (L/R) speakers. Centers seem to be about the same, which I'd add down...

Hello Everyone. This is my first post on this forum and its going to be a long one (skip to the end for the tl;dr). I've recently started building a dedicated Home Theatre. This is being done piecemeal on a pretty tight budget, partly because budgetary constraints and partly because I want to...