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Most of my serious listening now is streaming, although my "serious" listening is a lot less serious than before. I can definitely hear a difference between Qobuz and Spotify on the systems, though, but Qobuz is enough for me these days. I play CDs only once in a blue moon, and I'm shocked...

New cables! It was so obvious, how did we miss it? 😉

I'm glad to see the new cables are thick enough to let all the posting electrons through. There'll be no stopping us now.

That's very good news! Thanks to all concerned.

Dammit, you have me reminiscing now about my favourite bit of speaker silliness. Good times.

I know it's a truism to say that "kids just aren't into hifi any more", but to be honest I'm pretty sure that's been the case since I was a kid getting into hifi. I don't really think that's the reason for the demise of traffic on this forum, and given the gear going in and out of Cloney t...

I wasn't paying attention before, but I'm interested now I read that the mini includes gapless playback. That's my major annoyance with the Chromecast Audio that continues to perform sterling work in the kitchen system. Generally not a problem for songs, but often a PITA for classical. I must look a...

Happy Christmas everyone!

I really wanted to like those DeVores, expected to, even, but I didn't on either day. Always interesting to hear different tastes

Just leaving from the second day, and it was very interesting. Unfortunately the room I most wanted to hear again (Gryphon) was packing up by the time I got to it. I really fancy that stuff, I have to say, and I should have spent more time listening to it. Oh well. I had missed the Kef and Rega room...

I visited for a while today as well. Some good sounds, some slightly disappointing performances, and some surprises (to me anyway). I'll probably go back tomorrow as I missed some rooms. As ever, the simpler systems had an easier time of it. That said, I was quite taken with the Naim and Focal room,...