Recent content by Roland68

But that's exactly where you're wrong, or it's not clear to many people. You can build products with the absolute highest quality and durability in China, but the production, quality control, etc. are then managed externally. The price advantage is then only very small; it is often a matter of...

Windows has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about HiFi devices with their own software or firmware. Take as an example a Yamaha CD-S 2000, a CD/SACD player that costs around $/€2000. If the control board fails, the device with a current used value of between $/€ 700-1000 is just scrap. The...

A very simple way would be to legally force manufacturers to publish all development and manufacturing documents, software and firmware if they no longer support repairs.

@johny_2000 brings up a point that's been on my mind for a few months now. There are no longer any spare parts for many good HiFi devices from this century, e.g. replacement boards for AVRs, CD players, amplifiers, etc. This also applies to devices costing 1000 or several thousand $/€ from e.g...

I've already asked twice and even offered help the second time, but there was no response. Due to the ICs used in the device, it is very likely that full range sub-out is not possible, as are other changes to the 2.1 functionality. Unfortunately, the ICs used in addition to the Axign AX5689...

Or you can buy the empty circuit board from XRK Audio on etsy and build your own TPA3255 amplifier with it. It's your choice....

I'm very sorry for you. Unfortunately, one problem is that the device has a processor control, which makes repairs much more complicated than, for example, a PA5. Try to clarify with your dealer or Topping.

I have since gotten a Cambridge Audio CXC, a pure CD transport, and can only recommend it. Fast, quiet, well thought out, it also reads difficult CDRs and very scratched CDs. Runs on an ancient Dacmagic (full-size case with 2 x TDA1305), on a Gustard A18 and on the SMSL D400 EX without any problems.

But it's nothing new, many manufacturers have had such lids over the last 35 years. Everything just copied...

SMSL has quietly presented its new T2 MQA CD Transport from the VMV series at the High End trade fair in Munich. Price about 1000 $/€ or more...

The SMSL PO100 Pro MQA USB Interface is just an MQA core decoder with which the first stage of the MQA file is unfolded. You can tell this if a 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz MQA file is output on your DAC at 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz and the MQA LED on the SMSL PO100 Pro is on. The DAC doesn't matter, it just has...

As long as the cracking isn't loud, it's not serious and not abnormal. But you can't please all users. To do this, Yamaha mutes the speakers on its top amplifiers for less than a second to avoid crackling when you change something. The owners regularly complain about this. Have you ever tried...

Why shouldn't that work? The A70 Pro is made for something like that. The problems with the A70 Pro don't come from poor development or bad components. It is solely the result of the potting compound used for the modules combined with a lack of knowledge and inexperience. The joke is that...

SMSL DO300 € 370,30 on Amazon.de, only one piece. https://www.amazon.de/DO300-ES9039MSPRO-Bluetooth5-1-Bluetooth-Konverter/dp/B0BWJK38MM

It's not a DAC and the current name for it, r2r, is absolute nonsense. This technology is over 40 years old and simply switches resistors into the signal path, simple but good. Basically the same as potentiometers with resistors, just as good, but not remote controllable. .