Hi Fi

Chippy_boy said:
Yes I'm familiar with these sorts of chip amps, although have not heard them myself. I am sure they can sound pretty decent, and incredibly so, considering the minimal cost.

FWIW I spent quite a bit more on a NAD M33 which is based on Purify IET400 power amp modules. Soundwise, tbh, it's money wasted because it sounds indistinguishable (to my ears) from the RME ADI-2 Dac and B&O Icepower amps it replaced. But it runs BluOS and is therefore a joy to use, ergonomically.
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My amp is true dual-mono. Each chip has its own power rails fed from separate bridge rectifiers and separate transformers. The only common connection between the channels is at the amp power connector, which is only the same as them being connected at the ring main ramp or the fuse board. It's a NFB amp, and the feedback resistor is soldered directly across the chip pins. It's input signal into attenuator, through the amp and out to the speaker terminals. No tone controls, relays or switches in the signal path. All in i think it cost me about £300.00, including enclosures/cases cables and connectors. I just shopped around for bits and bought them when they were cheap, or used stuff I already had in my spars box.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Nice! On a purely technical level, Vinyl is pretty poor compared to CD or lossless streaming, but that doesn't mean to say it cannot sound great, which I am sure your system does. And there's something "fun" about playing an LP and being able to look at the album cover etc.

FWIW I had about 500 LPs from my younger years and when we moved house 20 years ago, I put them in the skip. Something I now deeply regret.
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Know what you mean. My collection of 4,000 LPs whittled down by wife over many years in sales, charity shop and skip before we moved to Sheffield at Christmas.

My lad set me up on Discog this week, bit scary realising how much you've chucked.
 
Chippy_boy said:
You're welcome.
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So I signed up for the month free trial. As a Amazon Prime customer I can get Amazon HD for £12 a month if I decide to continue. (Tidal is £20 pm). So I have listened it on all my sources, from the echo up to my main hi fi and I think it’s better than Tidal from a quality of sound perspective. Mrs S listened to the Stones on her phones whilst she was on the treadmill and said it was more detailed than she had ever heard. Need to check it out for usability and breadth but looking good so far.
 
Possible stupid question here. Can I do something with all my c.d's other than buy a c.d player?
I have a pretty low level set up. Denon amp, B&W bookshelfs and an rp1 turntable.
 
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