Recent content by gavinbirss

sad news Mike was a true gentleman, his depth of knowledge, willingness to help and character was beyond reproach. will be greatly missed. my sincerest condolences to friends and family.

Most infinite baffle speakers and some may argue those with front firing ports should work. Some are designed with bookshelf placement in mind however, look at Harbeth P3 or a LS3/5a type design. Guru is another example.

I can image now there is a rush of coffee aficionados racing to PnP Centurion as we speak to take advantage of the deal. By the time I get there the shelves will be empty.

I suggest you try Logitech Media Server installed on the computer and perhaps also explore the use of a single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi 4/5 with any Ropieee/XL/Volumio based OS with additional HAT (DAC/SPDIF) if not having USB DAC input at your disposal. Using wired networking will...

The Harbeth range scales from the P3's, having had both P3 and the last XD model with M30, C7 and HL5+ once hearing the M30.1's the P3's as good as they are the M30.1's are more. Same applies to the other models. So ideally room size and proximity should be determining factor (i.e near field...

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Testing again with fresh valves could greatly assist. Testing the resistors with one leg un-soldered may be next more evasion action but as they could already be fragile crack more but this may just be visual (superficial) deterioration?. Sure more replies from other forum members may also help.

Really determined by specific material decisions by designer and what were available and used by some manufacturers. This also applies to budget driven choices in the some enclosures that really couldn't last especially coastal weather. Don't discard abuse also.

A Fiio R7 with external power supply really can’t be overlooked. I however see wanting XLR outputs and Tidal connect as opposites. A wired streaming protocol will give better results than a Wi-Fi protocol. A Logitech Transporter will also give great sound, in a LMS/squeezebox or ROON server setup.

No, use the money elsewhere. Like on isolation if USB not isolated. Like iFi Purifier.

check device volume with alsamixer (press s to change sound device if not in current view) perhaps "blacklist snd_bcm2835" may be necessary in /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

What is USB device? "sudo aplay -l" "cat /proc/asound/cards" see : How to make Raspberry Pi use an external USB sound card as a default

Sharing critical details as which OS you installed will assist greatly. Perhaps all that is needed is to swap the logical number of audio output device.

Hope "Hercules" was one call to help to unpack and move amps also.

May be very open to possible abuse wanting to try something new, especially when struggling to commit or being indecisive.