Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-11-08 Thread Brian Ritchie
n be surprisingly loud. So now I'm wondering about getting a decent set of headphones for late-night listening... -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.co

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-10-15 Thread Brian Ritchie
listening.) Thanks again for the advice and suggestions. -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-10-14 Thread Brian Ritchie
with the guys at Audio-T/Sevenoaks is the same as it was 15 years ago, I'll probably come home with the Arcam surround-amp, lots of speakers, and plans for a radical rearrangement of the living-room :-) . -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-10-14 Thread Brian Ritchie
the knowledge that my hearing ain't what it was! And reigned in again by remembering that the bathroom needs a total overhaul. :-) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie Brian Ritchie's Profile: htt

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-10-13 Thread Brian Ritchie
it out flat: she's perfectly happy with the 751s. Maybe later. Guess that rules out active speakers too... -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=231

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Suggestions for a new amp?

2011-10-12 Thread Brian Ritchie
se, as soon as I write that figure, I realise that maybe I would need new speakers to do the rest justice - except that that would eat into the budget...) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Tool to convert flac to wma

2006-07-11 Thread Brian Ritchie
re's no ReplayGain support for WMA. OK, that and the fact that what sounded OK on the Zen in the car doesn't sound so OK in the living-room - though curiously, it rarely sounds so bad that it has me running back to EAC...) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ---

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Analog output volume and audio quality issues

2006-04-06 Thread Brian Ritchie
problem then persists, I think you qualify for an audiophile. > :D > Go buy the most expensive DAC you can afford. Haha... but these days I think that the "quality bottlenecks" in my audio chain are my own ears :-) -- Brian Ritchie --

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Analog output volume and audio quality issues

2006-04-06 Thread Brian Ritchie
und 37 (leaving some leeway for going up to 11). As I said, I was happy enough with the sound quality before, so I'll probably be delirious now! Alas, the wife's in bed now, so "full subjective testing" w

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Analog output volume and audio quality issues

2006-04-05 Thread Brian Ritchie
27;m using for the SB3 (normally I wouldn't be so extravagant, but it was part of a new-for-old insurance deal following a burglary). (Yes, there's an obvious partial solution to the cable diffs; but it's far too fiddly to swap them betwixt CD and SB3.) Brian -- Brian Ritchie ---