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Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a safe, accident free and peaceful Easter weekend. My Denon AVR x4200w has developed an irksome problem. I used to be able to play files, such as DSD, flac and jpegs, from a USB stick plugged into the ipod/usb port on the front panel. This port now...

Greetings everyone, I am looking for information on how an AVR and TV set interface with each other. Assume I am feeding a DVD signal into my AVR via HDMI. I have been under the impression that once the signal reaches the AVR, it is split into the video signal carried either by an HDMI...

Hi, I often read that ofc cable is specified by buyers and sellers, implying it makes a difference to sound through speakers. Is there any evidence to support this idea?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for guidance please. I have a NAD CD player, model BEE 546. Good old faithful player for years but now it is acting up. When I insert a CD, it ejects without reading it. If I do this quite a few times, it then accepts the disc and plays without further problems. I've...

Hello, I'm appealing to all the Sherlock Holmes' of the audio world for help with the following problem. I have two disc players, a LG DVD player and a Sony Blu Ray player. The Sony recently stopped sending audio via it's HDMI output. Video signal is OK. IOW, it apparently only sends out only...

Good day, everyone, I would really appreciate some diagnostic advice re the following problem. I have a Denon X4200w AVR, connected to a 2 year old Samsung smart TV via the HDMI ARC sockets on both units. Up until yesterday, I was able to feed Netflix 5.1 sound through my AVR from the TV output...

Hi all, I have a Sony Blu Ray player which has suddenly gone silent. It outputs the video channels of DVDs, via HDMI, but no sound, neither from CDs. I have reset all settings to factory and checked the audio input settings on my AVR. I've tried the optical link to my AVR as well, no luck. I...

Good morning, I need some guidance please. I have Flac multichannel recordings (5.1 surround) which I am trying to play back as surround sound in my Denon AVR X4200W. I am feeding the signal in as a 6 channel PCM via HDMI from a media player and the amp shows it is receiving multichannel input...

HI, the eClassical website offers 5.1 FLAC downloads at 96/24 resolution. How can I play these files as surround music? One, undesirable option, is to convert these to AC3 files with Audacity and play the stream out of a media player. The media player I use is too old to stream multichannel FLAC...

Hi, I'm looking for advice please. I am planning to buy very expensive hearing aids from a source in the UK. The source can supply me with these, for personal use, at a massive discount compared to local audiologist suppliers. The items will be couriered. Two questions - (1) what is the best...

I was reading this morning in the Daily Investor about Buffalo International Logistics. This part of what they wrote, "There is so much demand for the service that Buffalo purchased a 25,000 square meter sorting centre with a 6,000 square meter bonded warehouse in October 2022. It enabled the...

On behalf of a friend: he has a recent model Hisense large screen TV, still under the guarantee period but he has lost his invoice. The TV transmits sound but the screen is blank. He lives in Honeydew Gauteng and is looking for a repair business that could ideally come to him or at least pick up...

Good day all, I'm interested to know if anyone has made succesful use of a motor car amplifier for a home hifi setup? One would need a separate preamp, depending on what you want to play through the car amp, I suppose? Power supply can be an issue, possibly a lead acid or lithium battery...

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I want to mention some old loudspeakers I've come across or heard about. Maybe some equally vintage Forum members will be able to add more information. 1. I was a regular user of Hamrad in Cape Town in the early 60's and their catalogue carried a wonderful array of electronic items, including a...

Hi, some time back I found a reference to a business operating out of a house in Northcliff, close to Norman Avenue, selling second hand CDs and DVDs. I can't find that reference now, whihc I think I found in this forum. Anybody know who and where it is? Thanks so much.

I've been given advice on this forum to buy a Dac from Shenzhen Audio. The item in question (Topping E30 Dac) is advertised for the same price by both Shenzhen Audio and from a dealer using Amazon USA as their outlet. Shenzhen says no charge for shipping but 3 to 6 weeks waiting period. Has...

Esteemed members of avforums.co.za, I would greatly appreciate your expert input re the following idea: I want to upgrade the sound from my CD player, a NAD 546 BEE. It is a good quality player but I know that there are better players on the market, the Marantz 6007, for example, which is in my price...

Good day everyone, I have S A Claro 6.1's playing on a Denon X4200 AVR. I find certain treble sounds e.g. close miked treble notes on a piano to be uncomfortably piercing. The speakers are excellent for imaging and microdynamics but seem to lack upper bass/lower mid body when played on the...

Hi, I'm hoping that someone could give me some tips as to what might be the problem: I took a DVD player around to a neighbour and hooked it up via HDMI to his 5 year old Samsung smart TV - regrettably I don't know the model number and neither does he - the screen is attached to the wall. Well...