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What Bose has done so far is to pull them from Best Buy/ Magnolia and trim their bloated product offerings by eliminating a lot of niche...

Really nice work! What amazes me is how little Hickok testers have changed over the years. What’s the vintage of this beast?

Ok, got it. Thanks for the clarification. IDK if you can go backwards but that’s what I’d try. There is a group heavy into modding these...

I’m not 100% sure on this but from my experience with my BDP 95 and UDP -205 the only way you can stream directly from the Ethernet port...

I also think the AKM chips sound good when properly implemented. I have a McIntosh MCD 1100 that uses 8 of the ESS chips in a balanced...

It’s on hold for now as I finish calibrating the theater. The next phase is component replacement and I’ll need a really good...

A week ago the companion Apos Audio Gremlin headphone amp arrived. I’ve had a chance to listen to it over the past week. Like the Druid...

If you plugged a Tice TPT Clock in the same outlet as one of these, or maybe laid one on top of a bed of Machina Dynamica Brilliant...

I don’t doubt that after being told you will hear an improvement that you will hear one. The Positive Feedback article is a...

These are the good old days for inexpensive but decent audio gear. Lots of unique items to choose from.

You can get an SMSL DAC for a lot less, under $50. But then you’d have an SMSL DAC using an ESS delta-sigma converter and you’d have to...

Any shielding it has would be on the PWB itself. Far from the die cast or machined enclosures so common in high end gear.

I picked up this Apos Druid DAC on a whim for my headphone setup. $160 for a modern R2R DAC that sounds better than it has any right to...

The best bang for the buck IMO is to add an optical break before your streamer. Power the optical to Ethernet transceiver on the...

Darrel, I’ve been enjoying some 5.1 ch SACD’s that I really hadn’t heard properly before. They range from beautiful to bombastic and...