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On a trip to the US in the 80s, I visited a New York showroom with KEF Reference 107s on display. I'd never seen these big speakers in the UK - most were exported, so I was on the lookout for a used pair. I found some advertised and bought them in excellent used condition for a few £000. Not...

Interesting. I needed a new ss amp when I decided to move away from SETs a few years ago. I bought or borrowed a dozen amps including the ML 5805 (although I'd have bought the 5802 if I'd taken the ML route). plus a number of A, AB and D contenders. Some were surprisingly and disappointingly...

If you are asking me, the answer is Yes. I have a Purifi Eigentakt-based NAD M33. Excellent amp (all-in-one in fact) that impressed the guys at Stereophile enough to award it Best Amplifier of the Year, Best Component of the Year and Editors' Choice. It's a pretty impressive box of tricks...

No, why should they? There will be plenty of Class D choice and one could pick one to suit one's own taste and to best suit one's speakers - as one can now with other amp Classes.

Possibly because Jeff R would be asking far too much for his Class D amps and his customers were not prepared to pay that much? Exceptionally good sounds can come from Class D after years of development and the best can now challenge the best in other Classes at 2 or 3 times the price...

Ralph as seen the light and states his main reason for going down the Class D route is sound quality. I wonder if he also recognises that price is so much lower than his very costly OTL valve amps that he is unlikely to stay in business if he offers only these costly monsters! I have a pair of...

Some way down that article is a paragragh titled "So, What Can We Do?" The simple answer is not to read crap reviews written by self-appointed Youtubers, often with no access to comparative kit or measuring gear, and who probably know no more about hi-fi than their watchers. Ignore them and...

Yes indeed I need an app, but not more than one. I wouldn't want an app that offers a particular music vendor's music (Tidal, Qobuz, etc) if it didn't also have access to my Libratry, radio stations, Radio Paradise and my volume control. BluOS offers all that and I guess Roon too - with the...

Not looking for that, but I do like to be able to start my system and play music from a number of sources (as described above) without having to fart around with an app!

I'd like to see what's playing without having to power up a PC or fiddle around with a phone. I like to power up my system with a single press of a button and start music playing (from a radio station, or Radio Paradise, or a Qobuz play queue, etc) using only the front panel screen, or the IR...

Wow, so the streamer and preamp sections are not used? A costly DAC. I would certainly want to use all 3 elements - streamer, DAC and preamp - and would need the package to perform exceptionally well. I am using the NAD M66 at present, but it's not sound quality that's letting it down, but...

Agree fully about sound quality as first priority but there are now many excellent streamer preamps around and features that the user enjoys is a factor to consider. I've not heard the Esoteric, but it's good to find someone who owns it. What control app do you use and how user-friendly is it...

Just spotted this thread about a product I have on a short-list of streamer preamps. Pity about the grotty front panel screen. Is it realy a monochrome text-only display with no album artwork? If so, can it squirt album artwork artwork or other information onto a connected TV? I don't think...

I am always keen to read about products, old or new, but I'd like to know if the writer is "trade" or "one of us"! If trade (manufacturer, dealer, etc), is this fact displayed on his avatar at the left side of the text? We should be aware that there may be (unlikely no doubt) a vested interest...

That looks more like a home-made bomb! Have you a target in mind!