Recent content by Down South

How much?

It's incredible what chumps will pay for wine. The difference in quality between good cheap wine and the expensive stuff is very little. the same with audio gear. My usual red Cav.Sav wine is from pay d'oc and comes in a box @ €7.99 for 3 L.. When I lived in Spain I bought really good whites...

The headamp is excellent. I've had the original CD63, next the 63KI and for me the 6007 is better than both.

Grover Washington - Live at the Bijou. How I wish I could have been there - absolutely jumping.

are you talking from theory or practice. I've used active cooling via computer fans on hybrid amps - noise was never an issue when sound damping techniques were used and internal temps. matched room temperature. In the 1950s white papers proved that cooling of both passive and active components...

Passive cooling is never as effective as active cooling

Complete waste of time - remove the attractive but useless perforated orange plates, sit the amps on their side and use a computer fan to quickly reduce the operating temperature and enjoy the sound of well engineered amps - simple.

After years listening to music using first an AR and then Rega belt drives, my first d/d was a Technics SL-120 and that was a real shock - where was the noise. Then seeing a rec. for the best of the Japanese d/ds I bought a s/hand Kenwood KD990 - I could never think about buying a belt drive...

I bought a lot of 'audiophile' vinyl in the 90s' I wish I had bought more. At a car boot sale in the early 90s I bought an ECM - Making Music - Zakir Hussain/John McLaughlin/Jan Gabarek/Hariprasad Chauprasaria - there is no noise only music, near the end of side 1, Jan Gabarek comes storming in...

Again not an argument over vinyl v CD/streaming BUT to get the best from a vinyl system you must have as near to silence from a t/t. The Japanese d/d t/ts did just this The Kenwood KD/KP series (among others) did just this - wow/flutter 0.02% WRMS - rumble -80dB weighted. These decks came with...

You had a crap t/t apart from anything else.

You havn't stated what the floor was, very important. In the UK I used to live in a ground floor apartment. When the street door was slammed shut in the house next door even with using a deck on a wall shelf the stylus would jump.

Most commercial racks are made to look 'good' WAF factor and cost. I made my own about 15 years ago using - 2 Lidls TV/VCR racks (cost about €20 each). Discarded the shelves, bought veneered MDF cut to size. Had Norwegian Sound Care spikes welded onto the bottom chromed steel tubes. Used steel...

not a good idea to stack the amps and then with the DAC on top. If you use all three vertically on two pieces of narrow stone or wood with the orange side pieces removed you will create a flow of air - conduction current. This will seriously lower the operating temperature and life of the...

When there is only streaming left with no other choice what do you think will happen to subscription costs?