Yesterday, I decided to move the PS555 to a newly created spare level around 30cm lower. Unbelievable: the upper bass thickness that I had been trying to sort for a couple of months went away, the system opened up and became a real joy to listen to. But the change wasn’t just on playing from HDX it was on vinyl, FM and CD.
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HDMI cable silences my listening room
The experiment was to move the PC outside my listening room and then to use a 5m Chord HDMI and 5m USB cables to control and monitor the PC.
The worry was running a good monitor at 1920 by 1200 over a 5m HDMI cable. Would the image quality be reduced? The image was absolutely fine and so much so that I temporarily tried a 10 m cable which worked just as well.
Why 45rpm is essential
Elbow’s award winning album The Seldom Seen Kid is available on vinyl. It’s heavy, split onto two records and is 45rpm.
Hot Tuna Hi-res audio download
Having found and downloaded FestivaLink presents Hot Tuna at MerleFest 4/28/06 and Rasing Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss both in 24/96 from www.hdtracks.com I started to look around for more Hot Tuna live material. I found www.hottunatunes.com.
Budget Turntable Table not Lacking much
The point of the blog of course is the performance. While I would never argue that the Ikea Lack delivered 100% of the dynamics of the specialist rack we were using, it wasn’t too shabby at all. The good part is that, what it didn’t do well – mainly dynamic contrasts – itdidn’t fail badly and horribly.
HTC – more shooting, more feet
I enjoyed the fact that it was a quick survey with only a small number of questions. What I found so stupid was the need for both the serial number and the IMEI number of the phone to be included. Surely HTC don’t have so many complaints – maybe they do – that they can’t track a customer by name.
HTC Customer Service replies after six months
A couple of days ago I received the first reply from HTC Europe’s customer service department to a complaint I made six months ago. To be exact I emailed them on the 14th September 2008 and received a reply on the 6th March 2009.
So after keeping me waiting for six months for the reply, the answer is, we would be delighted to bring your phone (pretty well looked after even if I say it myself) back up to scratch – sorryabou the pun – but to expect a bill.
Ideal for dinner parties: the Wadia 170iTransport?
Performance from the Wadia 170iTransport using the Behringer was absolutely ideal for dinner parties and background music. There was absolutely no chance of anyone being dstracted by any emotion from the music. The best results were with the Behringer upsampling to 24Bit 88.2k before doing it’s D to A conversion.
Identity theft, fraud and the time wasted
A man with the initials TL (I’m not choosing to use his name as it will just stay around forever on Google searches) has been fraudulently using my company name. He evidently is being searched out by the Irish police. He has been advertising that he has bulk quantities of iPods and iPhones available. Judging…
DacMagic – Added the power, what about the glory?
The 225VA transformer has been terminated with a suitable mains lead and power in plug for the Cambridge. It”s been plugged in and blown a one and a two amp fuse with its switch on surge so it’s running with a 3amp fuse. This by the way is not the way to do something for…