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There are many recent threads about powering your audio gear. From connecting amps to UPS?s, to the thread about the Japanese audiophiles who get to install their own private transformers to ?clean up the power supply?' So, can anybody in the know explain perhaps what is best practice for...

How do you 'calibrate' your hearing when you listen to hifi? After the recent thread where some members took exception to the popularity of a certain brand of speaker, I started thinking why one would prefer the sound of a specific speaker above another? Back in the mid 90's as I started...

I've had some trouble the last couple of months with following dialog on my home cinema system. First off I have to say my room where the 'cinema' lives is not ideal for sound: double volume ceiling, tiles and 'open plan' space to kitchen. The system 'sounds' fair, its just the difficulty in...

Even though I know better I had to use the 685 s2's as true 'bookshelfs' the last couple of months, but got the proper B&W FS700 stands today, and was once again blown away at the difference they can make... The slightly substandard imaging and muddy bass is now gone and the S2's sound proper...

A couple of weeks ago I bought a pair of DS3 surrounds from classifieds (thanks PaganMcloud!). I've used them for a while now and want to share some experiences: let me just state that my listening room for HT is far from ideal... Double volume ceiling, glossy ceramic tiles, glass stack-doors...

I've been thinking about sources the last couple of days. Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of digital is the ease we can get a decent quality signal into our amplifiers. Even the output from most 'common' cell phones appears to be reasonably 'clean', however the levels are often too low...

For the past year or so I've been using mainly the NAD and 685 S2's for music listening' apart from the Home Cinema of course. I decided it is time to dust off my old combo: Aura VA100 evo and B&W P4's and was just again reminded why I love this combo so much. Mainly the bass character of the...

Good day people. So the time has come to buy a second TV screen since the dear little ones in our household have taken posession of my home cinema to watch Barbie and Barney (in surround sound!) ;) Plan to move current 46" Samsung 5series LED to another room and upgrade the home cinema to...

Appologies if this has been posted before, but the new generation of Aventage Yamaha's are out: http://www.whathifi.com/news/yamaha-launches-five-aventage-av-receivers-prices-start-ps550 Focus appears to be around Atmos and DTS:X, but new is the 550 at al lower price point. Ought to sell well...