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Having listened to a couple of records this morning, the 309 makes much more sense on the jbe. Sounds very good, basically how it should do. Nice and neutral top to bottom, no particular emphasis from the arm anywhere. the slight peak in the upper mid that has been there with evey single arm i have ...

I had a day off today in order to go to an appointment with emma, so i decided to fit the 309 onto the jbe. Didnt actually take very long, just had to modify the arm board with an sme cutout. Having a milling machine makes these things much easier. Was nice to use some tools and do something again. ...

Did a bit of playing around with the oracle yesterday. I was puzzled when i tried it originally as to why it sounded so inconsistent and frankly abit crap with the sme on it, and why conversely it sounded good enough for me to buy it with the tabriz on it. It has bothered me for quite a while, becau...

Progress there paul, and some palpable relief after first startup there i suspect!

Number of the beast - iron maiden

Reign in blood - slayer

I have 2 wiim minis and you can only output to an external dac via optical. It says it will do 192 down the optical, but one dac i have will pick it up and the other wont. My topping e30 will pick up the 192 test signal it outputs but my jds labs dac wont. That one only accepts it via usb which the ...

Fleet foxes - shore

Eels - extreme witchcraft

Prelude to ecstacy - last dinner party

This popped up in the editors recommended bit on tidal, this is their debut but it does not sound like a debut at all. Never heard of them but ive had to have a good read about them, i was rather impressed

Peacemaker - vera solo

Thinning down the collection, all packaging and both the original supplied cables, not a lot of use, i bought them new about 12 months ago.

Nice sounding cans, after about 80 quid, fiver postage. They are around 150 ish new as there are plenty of deals about for them

Cheers ant

Been listening to this rig with a(nother) change for a while now. I got hold of a jds labs el dac 2+, fed it with the optical out of the wiim mini. The main rig has a topping e30 in the same position. The jds does all the usual things that dacs do these days, accepts usb coax and optical. doesnt hav...

The hidden world of piloo - ada rovatti

Carlos santana mahavishnu john mclaughlin- love devotion surrender

George benson - space