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Original poster here. Thank you kindly to all. This is really useful. Long live the forum (despite the gloom in another thread!) Really useful information from all. We live in Stanford and use the ISP who seem to have the largest customer base. The pricing model starts at 30 down. The...

I wonder if any of the experts could kindly assist me? I want to get recommendations on acceptable specifications for fibre: but not bleeding edge most expensive packages. We live in a small village near Hermanus. Currently contractors are busy excavating our roads and installing fibre...

There is a six minute month free offer from MTN for Apple Music. Not sure if you can use that but don?t miss it if you are on MTN network.

Has anyone used an iFi product to convert USB to coax or optical? What is the name of the device? I have an Apple MacBook and also iPhone. It would be great to have a device that can stream audio from the MacBook to my DAC. And as a bonus, stream audio from phones so kids and visitors can also...

I accept that the incoming AC power supply contains harmonics and noise. Most of which is filtered out by the power supplies on our audio kit. However, AC rectification (AC to DC) in our audio kit can also be a source of AC noise back into the mains. So running your kit off different circuits...

He was a fantastic guy and I am sure he will be missed from the South African audio scene. So sad.

In a previous life I was paid to spend my employer?s money. So supplier interaction was done daily. And some key learnings for me that might be applicable to this thread are: 1. Suppliers that are poor on correspondence- warning flag. So good idea to answer email inquiries and return phone...

Low ball offers are no worse than over optimistic sellers who try to justify excessively high values. I am sure most folks have paid for goods and or services only to find similar for a lot less money later. The emotion is the problem, not the price paid. If I was happy to pay at the time of...

So many albums already listed. So looking at the lists and attempting to find similar albums to those listed. So here we go: Frank Zappa Apostrophe Linton Kwesi Johnson Bass Culture Rare Earth Ma Renaissance Ashes are Burning Babe Ruth First Base

Please do a quick search on the Dacmagic 200, regarding issues with some media types not operating as should be expected. I too want one. But I saw several USA reviews expressing unhappiness with MQA. Perhaps a comment from the authorised local agents might dispel this feedback. Any idea who...

Amp dog It would be most interesting to read your contributions to the topic of distortion and other reasons for differences in amplifier sonic signatures. Perhaps you might include some content on the differences between real world and theoretical components. This is an interesting discussion...

What about banana plugs? The ones I have tightly grip the speaker cable with enough pressure to ensure good conduction all round. Plus there should be little space for atmospheric invasion, oxygen leading to metal corrosion and reduced conductivity. The fit into the amp and at the other end, the...

Also interested in feedback on equipment choices. I have heard streaming sound quite good through a Marantz MCR511. My problem is living in a village with limited internet bandwidth. But my Apple phone provides stable lofi content from free Spotify. Is the streaming quality limited by...

Anybody have any direct experience of the Volumio device called Primo?

Some new woofers! Sorry guys this is an audio site. Hope all the little ones find joyful loving homes.

Okay. I resisted going to buy a tin of contact cleaner. Opened amp and discovered two tiny wires to an LED on back of volume knob. One no longer connected. Deep breath and a dab with the soldering iron and I again have a light. To get the tip of solder gun onto LED pin required removing knob...

What?s the remedy route? New pot?

Hello I have a volume pot that seems to be corroded. Amp is a Jolida JD1501RC. Bought recently. It seems to play soft sometimes. Other times it?s louder. Today the green light on the volume pot became intermittent. Turn it and light goes out. Turn more and light comes back on. I want to try...

I am the next owner of the Jolida amp. Purchased from Bankies. I swapped the tubes in the amp back to the Mullard 12AX7?s after two weeks of listening to the original Sovteks. At first the Mullards sound were more transparent than the previous Sovtek tubes. But despite better transparency there...

Come on Blizzard. Reduction ad absurdism! If a design engineer creates a device that works without interference on 95% of all mains issues, then 19/20 customers will not have noise issues. The remaining 1/20 will. I have designed power supplies for sensitive equipment. So have a small amount of...