audio-talk

Nick wrote:Any chance you could get the 76 stage in Ian?

Yes, will do.

I'll bring one of the F4 amps that Nick made for me but it will need an active preamp for some voltage gain. Will there be one there?

meanwhile on the ARM trial, the default debian build uses hard float emulation, which as far as I can see requires a exception and switch to kernel space for every floating point instruction. So I am seeing if I can build a softfloat toolchain.. Nick please tell me that you made all that stuff up. ...

Against my better instincts I can't help but be intrigued by this:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/acou ... /rr77.html

It appears at least to be based on a real scientific phenonomen.

My hi fi rack has 10mm glass shelves. I use wooden cones under my equipment but for some time I've been thinking I should replace the shelves with something less, shall we say, controversial than glass. I've thought about wood (birch ply, spruce, maple??), some kind of imitation torlyte or go the ot...

Ian, Don't be so smug :) They only have a couple of singles. All the rest are doubles which they automatically let out as singles if the demand is there.......hope I've got a double......I like to stretch out! Best wishes, Greg I'm a broken man, my self esteem is in tatters; how many years have I b...

Just booked for the 19th. All the singles have now gone but I deployed a dollop of charm and blagged a double at the same price as a single.

First off that subject heading is not a marriage proposal, just the two things I'm going to talk about. As Nick mentioned I went with him to Manchester. The Naim demo was just extraordinary. The £59k system managed to turn music into a combination of apparently unconnected sounds. It was the most un...

Thanks Steve. Happy to report that I'm up and running

Thanks Simon. That installation guide looks as though its aimed at PC users but I'll have a more detailed look.

I've taken the plunge and bought a TS109 to use with my squeezebox. I have a Mac ibook and I run my SB with itunes wirelessly. My music files are on an external HDD. I've connected the qnap to my wireless router and run the install cd on the ibook. When I click Network in Finder I can find NAS and S...

Which valves/PSU etc. do you use in your Aikido pre Ian? The 76 buffer stage sounds good :). Simon Its the Basie + from diyhifisupply. I've currently got 6N6Ps in it but I've also got some 6CG7s which will give me much more gain. The F4s and 989s don't seem to need any more voltage gain but next ti...

Continuing from all over the place :-) btw did you source Ian's Plitrons and if so can you tell me where Nope, Ian did, but I am sure he will tell you. I think I should create a solid state area, to give this a place to live. [/quote] I got the Plitrons through a group buy on diyaudio, and yes they...

OK been listening to TVC + 76 buffer + F4s. Not done any ABing with the aikido preamp but my initial reaction is that I've gone up another rung. Unless I'm kidding myself there is some of that SET magic coming through; its that great sense of presence that I think you get with SETs. How many more ru...

Nick In that case I'd be very interested hear the 211 on the 989s, hint hint. Hi Clive, hope things are going well in the counter-espionage business :lol: Amani has not heard the F4s yet. She has never forgiven me for selling the Aleph 2s and I reckon these are way better so i will be very surprised...