Tír Na HiFi

tonights listen - an unusual blend of African with smooth jazz and somehow it all hangs together.

A second request for the Lii drivers info.....

I have sachiko horns with Fostex drivers, and I read somewhere that some of the Lii drivers are an improvement.... a future project maybe.

I'm torn between a few gadgets.... Something I only use now and again is a Feickert alignment gauge, but very useful thing to have If you are testing equipment, a sound level app on the phone is very handy indeed to make sure you are not fooling yourself with a louder/quieter playback Hard drive wit...

Well, the title says it all. What is the best geegaw, faldal, widget, gadget, apparatus, tool, contrivance, device or gizmo that you have in your hifi room?

Tonights listening

I think there are two approaches here: 1. You want an all-in-one box that connects to your hard drive somewhere, or your tidal/qobuz/spotify account and on the other end you have analog outputs. In other words, it acts as both a source and DAC, kind of like how a CD player worked years ago, replacin...

Excellent, I'll find that and put it on the list

The flavour of the month out there on t'internet is the Eversolo DMP A6.....

I have to say I find it great slipping down those rabbit holes! One thing I do notice with qobuz is that sometimes there are multiple versions of the same album - often one is hi res and the other standard resolution. On my system at least (and it might be to do with my dac) the standard resolution ...

If you had asked me 18 months ago would I ever be interested in a streaming service, I would have shook my head vigorously and said no way. Then I got the opportunity to try out a cheap bluetooth module with one of my dacs..... and I was amazed at the sound quality. In fairly short order I tried tid...