Recent content by plonkywonki

How much time have you spent on your server-based music library? I was amazed in my case how much time I've spent on standardising artist names, titles, adding genre, adding release years etc. I think I am easily 200 hours down and not done yet. estimate 1000 albums. And you?

Dear audiosharks, on my way to upgrade for the better my audio path however against a little budget I try to find out the smartest next step. I've limited the options to two. I have an amp with decent grip on my speakers, but out of auditioning I know a more horsepower amp will deliver stronger...

Hi, I've renewed my interest in the sounds in found in dead silence with an amp on reasonable our louder level, and what you then can hear in an amp's background noises, sometimes only via the headphone output. Everything just seems to "live". I talk about background hiss, mains hum, or high...

Dear insightful audiosharks, I am extremely happy with a Hegel H90 that has a beautiful integrated DAC as well as a very nice sounding A/B class amp inside that delivers 60W @ 8ohms with a damping factor of 2000. However, since I look more and more for no nonsense designs, I am orienting...

Dear audiosharks. I attempted in my apartment with neighbors around to record a vinyl. Then I found that when the turntable has the needle on the LP but is not spinning, that there are many micro sounds that make it into the recording. e.g. if I step on my own floor you see some incoming low...

I have now both hifi and non hifi at the same outlet. Somehow I'm of opinion it might be better to get a power strip that that has clean outlets + also regular outlets so that I can connect hifi to the clean outlets. Like some others on this forum say.. garbage in = garbage out. Some simple...

Hi all, I'm new and found this nice forum by researching Lumin devices on the internet, As such I have registered and here is my first post! My name was at random :) I love all kinds of music, and for me the most important is that I can listen to it as neutrally and analog as possible, but...