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Apple Music hi res/lossless support. There’s not much out there other than the android based units like the eversolo. Good review.

Great review. What's with the RCA and Aux inputs? Can you connect different devices at once and toggle between RCA and AUX on the remote, or do you have to connect one or the other?

So, set up your system in a field

Cambridge Audio. Best amplifiers for the price. The super star is cxa 60.

Do you feel the Venus is too good for the H190? Do you think that a system based on the Hegel h20 and p20 would do better. I understand the h20 P20 is much more resolving then the h190 do you agree?

Monitor Audio Silver 100 7G have been on my list of next purchase

Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio in the US (and on CZcams) is crazy about Fyne Audio speakers. I love vinyl and tubes, but it has ZERO to do with nostalgia or hipster cred. It's all about the sound.

hello what is better sound qulity focal 816 or qacoustice 3050i ??? tanks

Hi tarun , I currently have the attessa streamer and am actually looking at the gustard a26 over the r26 , do you think it is a substantial upgrade over the burr brown in the attessa , also would you know if it would bypass the dacin the attessa when using the streamer and not just my attessa cdt , many thanks for your reviews

I was literally stepping into a demo room with money in hand to buy a beautiful piece of art - Yamaha’s R-N2000 amp. I left shop flabbergasted and utterly disappointed with the sound quality. Paired with another “poster child” KEF R3 Meta the R-N2000 emitted the weirdest, mumbling and annoying sound I’ve ever heard. “Natural”? What a joke. Mark Knopfler would have committed suicide if he’d listened to his music through this kit. With all due respect to bloggers who indeed, take lots of time and effort to comment on Hi-Fi kit, I’d only say one banal thing: never tryst anything and try what you liked in CZcams before buying. By the way, I’m not deaf, and on the same test Hegel paired with reference PMC monitors sounded so much better. Didn’t make up my mind still, the shock of saying farewell to a dream kit was too heavy.

So basically if i want the essentials of what makes an r2r dac, an r2r dac but i also like the good in sabre dacs..this is the one for me? Best of both worlds? Or is the SMSL VMV D2R the best of both worlds, with its warmer presentation and great soundstage?

Have you heard the newer Lowther speakers and if you did what do you think..

Thanks for your videos. Which would you choose between Sourcepoint 8 and Proac D20R?

Excellent and so well presented review. The NVA AP10 was one of the more unusual amps I have encountered, as were the DNM amps, the Moth Group 30 Series (from Mike Harris, circuit by Stan Curtis) and the Gryphon XT preamp.

Very nice review!

Looks very British drive.google.com/file/d/1X8zYoNTCzpiou_d07hc2ydC_N_28HQ-4/view?usp=sharing

Anyone who has the opportunity to visit this man should be considered fortunate!!!

I applaud you sir. I’ve been in custom cable solutions for over 40 years and know most of the manufacturers who would make the audiophile jewelry. The markups are stunning.

Well first off, I moved my primary Altec Lansings away from the wall and I'm thinking there's an improvement. My Klipsh on the back side don't sound quite right. I've got to work on that. There's alot that goes into this and I need to keep working at this.

Thank you ! Your reviews are professional yet enjoyable and easy to digest

New speakers out perform vintage in every way, except perhaps nostalgia. True budget remains a series of severe compromises, but even thete really good performance can be had for very little money. Spend an entry level amount, say $1,000 - $1,800 and there’s simply no competition with vintage. That said nostalgia is about the emotion of old memories and the desire to touchstone with those by gone era. The 50+ year old speakers of my youth don’t hold a candle to what’s in another room, but those sweet memories are worth a spin and so was well worth seeking them out. Cheers!

For some time I used my venerable Toshiba SD-100e, as a CD transport, but sadly after 24 years, it has started to show its age, so last year, I bought the Arcam CDS50, which is both a CD player and streamer. Sound wise the CDS50, sounds very neutral, similar to my Topping DX3 Pro+. Currently, I mainly use it as a transport to my Roksan K3 amp. Of course, the party piece of the CDS50, is its ability to stream, but sadly, Arcams Musiclife app, has far too many issues to be a practical solution, though you can (and I do), use mconnect instead, which works much better, but does not work when the device used goes into sleep mode which is a real pain. As a CD player the CDs50 is much better, than a streamer, but the convenience of a streamer means I mainly use it the streamer function which is instead, which is not ideal. It is getting to the point where I am considering getting Wiim, or maybe another Bluesound node, just because they work, but at the moment I am holding off.

Exposure 5010 Mono Power Amplifiers. .? Please please do these

Hello Mr British Audiophile, hope you're doing great. I just purchased, thanks to your recommendation, the Choco sound Emei, and i really love it. Now im looking for a DAC because i don't have any. I think the type of warm sound of the Choco, is what I'm looking for in my audio journey. Having said that, maybe i want a little tiny bit more detail, or a little tiny bit more speed from it. But again, im afraid to lose that warm and musical cosy sound. Can you please aid me? The Ares 12 is what got my attention, but i fear it is going to be too much. Or The Topping is going to balance things out? Sorry for the long message 😊 By the way my speakers are Q Acoustics Concept 300.

I appreciated your detailed comparison of the 3 speakers. I have a pair of the 6G MA Silver 300s and my friend got a pair of the 6G Sliver 300s on my recommendation. My impressions are that MA's Silver series of speakers are a great value for people that expect to upgrade their amplification because the speakers seem highly revealing of the qualities of their upstream amplification. My friend's upgrade from Naim amplification to a Modwright preamp and Pass Class-A power amp brought the sound quality from his Silver 500 speakers to another level. As you mentioned, the downside of this is that the speakers are also less forgiving of amplifiers that lack warmth. Also, another vote for doing a review on Monitor Audio's Gold and Platinum series speakers. As resolving as the Silver series of MA speakers may seem to be, I've heard the MA Gold 200 speakers and they are one step up in terms of overall clarity and resolution.

Hello Tarun, an intriguing option. I would be interested to hear you review the Holo audio Cyan2, which if I understand correctly is a feature light version of their Spring level 2 DAC

32Hz, wow! That's impressive. There's plenty of floor standers that can't do that. I'd use a sub anyway, allow the stand mount to do the mid base and above, as I do with the ATC 19s, but sounds like a great design.

Hello Tarun, could you please advise what will be best suitable for Audio Physic Scorpio 25 (the old version) ? I’m living in Botswana and and will appreciate your advise. . Best regards!

Possible future speaker reviews? Audiovector would be interesting. Their R1 would be an interesting follow-up to your Kerr Acoustics/ Alta Audio reciews, while their recently introduced QR1 SE sits somewhere, price- wise, between the three models you have here and the Quad Revela you reviewed recently. One other manufacturer that I would love to see you review is Zu Audio. I do have quite a specific reason for this - I am trying to find a suitably efficient / sensitive speaker to partner my 10w per channel Pure Sound A10 and Zu have a couple of speakers, the DWX and DW6, that look like a good fit at an appropriate price for an amp that costs around £700 or so.

I’m considering pairing an Eversolo with my powered Buchardt A500’s and getting rid of the Buchardt supplied Platin hub which has been problematic since day one. I wonder if anyone can comment on this upgrade?

Have you heard the Hegel H120? Any thoughts on that one?

Hi Tarun, great review and comparison. I had been using my Eversolo DMP-A6 as a streamer/DAC since I bouth it near a year ago, and it's performance was really nice to me. Last week I received my new Denafrips Ares 12th-1 and start to using the DMP-A6 only as a streamer transport and SSD player, connected by USB to the Ares 12th-1. I couldn't be happier with this addition to my system. I found that is a step forward in the sound quality with the Ares 12th-1 as the main DAC and I'm enjoying so much my music with this new sound signature :). Cheers!

Has any British person ever been accused of over-stating things?

how these compare to dynaudio special 40

No! I won't do it! The lowest note on a string bass is 41.2 Hz. I absolutely am opposed to a sub. Why? Because I looked, found, and purchased speakers that complete the mission the way they are supposed to! It seems ludicrous to me to seek out a good set of speakers that right out of the gate have deficiencies. My Tannoy tower speakers are designed to fulfill that mission and their frequency response is more than adequate for the lowest notes of both classical and rock music recordings. I loved you "daft" digression and always enjoy your videos.

@TheBritishAudiophile Tarun, My Hestia12th arrived this week. Decided to try a *balanced* SS preamp between Ares2 and Bryston B3sst. Other pre is a Musical Paradise MP701mk2. The Hestia will give me a baseline for all the tube and capacitor rolling possibilities available🎶((😅))🎶 I had to switch the amp to higher sensitivity input and disable the automatic gain limits in BS Node2i to drive 2.2 LRS/RELs to satisfying levels. Initial impressions are of a dense warm, full bodied, transparent presentation full of lively dynamics and with very expressive timing. Emotionally engaging ! Solid imaging and decent depth: Had some trepidation, but NOT clinical in this setup - thanks for asking. BTW the extra remote buttons operate my Marantz CD63,67SE and Musical Fidelity X-ray V3 CD players 🎵🎶😁🎶🎵

I would enjoy a video about warm vs cool sounding amplifiers. Thank you.

It would be nice if you could do a review of Focal Sopra No1, simply because there is practically no reviews on CZcams 😕

You should hit up Monitor Audio to send you some Gold or Platinum series to review. I'm sure they'd be up to assisting a fellow British audiophiliac😊

Another great feature - m.czcams.com/video/_Nq9ZGAYTwU/video.html&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Frme-audio.de%2F&feature=emb_logo www.reddit.com/r/oratory1990/wiki/index/list_of_presets_rme_adi-2/?rdt=43176

Do either of you have any comments on KEF Q350 bookshelves? Also would amp would you pair with KEF LS50 Meta

Soundstagenetwork measurements on the atoll in200 revealed very high intermodulation distortion! Is this the same for the in300? Because both models are quite similar in construction, I suppose the IMD will also be high here. Cannot find measurements for this model.

I know you've reviewed the Denafrips Venus, and I'm sure the Pontus II. I have the Pontus II. Would it be a fair assumption that the A6 running through the Pontus II would be as good or better than the stand alone A8? You only make the comparison to the A6 and the Ares combo. Another excellent review.

With the SMSL A300 coming in under 200 the AXA35 will be a hard to sell I.A.

Thanks for the review. These speakers are on my shortlist, can't wait to to hear them in person.

It's definitely the ESS version - There's C letter near the barcode number

You can’t clean a digital signal i.e. you can’t hide additional audible detail within a signal that you can only recover it with an expensive black box between your source and DAC. Clock jitter under nornal conditions is *inaudible,* it exists but *it has no effect on what you can actually hear.* Jitter affects the structure of a digital signal (how we physically send it) not the data itself (1’s 0’s). The *only* time you need to worry about it is if your audio pops and glitches. That’ll be down to poor/no clock sync or a sample rate mismatch (in effect the same thing). If all this device does is take in a digital signal at its own clock speed and send it back out again then it’s *literally just an overblown interface with digital out but no analogue inputs.* Save your money and stop worrying about clocks. The only components in your system that will make a difference to quality are your DAC, amplifier, speakers and/or headphones. Cables, DDCs and Expensive CD “transports” should all be avoided. Anyone claiming they make a difference is honestly deluded or lying to you to try and get your money *cough* ps audio *cough*

Shame that this CD player does not have the room to grow with your system, be it a new speakers, amp or even a DAC. I have to keep looking for a CD player/ T that will offer scalabity with good sonics straight up for disc playing

I almost skip the SMSL PL200 when you mentioned the digital out sounded bad as a transport. But I brought one anyway since it is a good standalone CD player as you and many reviewers stated. The unit did not sound good at first played. After an hour or so, I hooked it up to the Pontus II. Wow. I couldn't believe how good those CW IV sound. I don't miss the REV SUB at all. The 8W SET drives the CW IV to all the bass I could ever wish for with well recorded CD, it is so musical, and it made me go to work late this morning. The Bright Red cd by Laurie Anderson was highly rated CD back in the 80s but it never wows me with my old system. That CD sounded like I have never heard before with my good old LUXMAN U-105D cd player. I stopped listening much to cd after that unit broke, and no one around can fix it. Other transports may be better, retrieve more detail, more airy or dynamic but with the current setup. I am now in sonic Nevada. Every instrument, male or female vocals are so real and vivid in my Livingroom. I am very happy with the PL 200.

Great review, please can you let me know the brand of the speaker bi wiring cables used on the Monitor Audio Silver 100s? I have the gen 6 model.