audio-talk

Afternoon all I am clearing out some old gear. Doubt there'll be much interest here for a DVD player, but who knows: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pioneer-DV-575A-DVD-Player-Multi-Region-heavily-modded-with-top-quality-parts/263817076522?epid=56003135&hash=item3d6cb91f2a:g:LK0AAOSwE2tbS1gZ Open to ...

Finally getting rid, but before I do I wanted to guage the interest in it wired as a power-amp. Can convert to integrated, but would prefer not to. What do you think? For those who went to a couple of Witham Fests this was the killer amp that drove Maggies wonderfully. Every possible upgrade has bee...

I have a WAD KEL 84 with all mods you can imagine. Wired as poweramp for now but could easily change. I am in N London

Adrian

Dear all this is an odd one. c.20 years ago one of the HiFi mags included a sampler CD. Track 6 (not sure why I recall this) was choral/religious music, by Mendelssohn I believe. It had a boy's voice backed by a male choir, probably a cathredral choir. The CD may have come with HFNRR but could have ...

Dear all I recall there being 4 ways to wire a pot for the pseudo shunt mod, but the WAD FAQ section has been edited and only 1 pseudo shunt mod now appears. Does anyone have details of the original 4? I am in discussion with a colleague and it may be that my wiring was not pseudo-shunt at all (inpu...

Phil, Greg and Mike thanks for the replies. Phil, yes, Gerry mentioned the same thing a while ago on some forum or other. The problem of the cover pressing on the heat-sink does not affect my amp happily. Greg, the flaring is odd as it affects all valves in one of the 4 bases, but not any of the oth...

Hi all long time no post. Hello again! there's a little confusion on the web and I would like to know which new valves to buy to spruce up the 2nd hand Rose I recently bought. It has 4 x ECC82, but I have read that the phono section should be ECC83. Meanwhile I have a 2nd Rose with 4 x ECC81 (which ...

SOLD (TO A MYSTERY BIDDER)

Hi all bought a Q-DAC recently (thanks to HFW review) to run a portable player, FiiO X3 (thanks to HFW review), through home hi-fi. Very nice smooth sound, but by tweaking settings I can play line out through pre-amp and dispense with Q-DAC. Why dispense with it? Because against my Thorsten Loesch-m...

Thanks to all. Hope to make progress over the summer. Will report anything interesting

Adrian

Hi all I had a bright idea recently - to digitalise my vinyl and rip all CDs to PC. I stripped a laptop, installed Linux (ubuntu) and downloaded Audacity. That was 2 months ago and I may have ripped a couple of tracks now! Why the delay? Not sure, but I thought I'd ripped CDs in WAV last month to fi...

Is there a decent audio card with this version of the Pi, along the lines of the old Wolfson?

Adrian

Hi all am having a problem setting up a 940 I have had for many years but not used. I concluded that the internal wiring was damaged as my multimetre showed nothing between the white (L+) cartridge tag (top left) and the mini-din pin 1 at the arm-base. As an afterthought (and much prodding and fiddl...

In perhaps one of the most unhelpful responses this site has seen, I have 5 x 100uF, 20V. They are Os-cons though, although not sure if they are SPs (they have a 'G' on them).

Adrian

Dear all stand-down! Just got the following email: "hi, panic over!!!! think it was a source problem,,,,,took all valves out and reseated them, problem disappeared....cant tell if it was source or this but all seems well........sounds pretty good..........listening to it through a set of Royd P...