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Come on man, flex on this and spill the beans. I see Ekos and a DV Te Kaitora Rua. What's the PSU, bearing and sub chassis fitment? Is this replacing the Gyro or augmenting it?

This arrived this morning. Woodes; Crystal Ball; This might be seen as a bit of an indulgence. The record itself was a reasonable enough- about £22-23 if I remember correctly. The catch is that it's only sold in Australia. Throw in shipping and this is comfortably in my top twenty most...

I got a Nucleus because I'm a ham handed idiot.

2020 isn't all bad; I don't even have to pretend to care Ryan Adams released a new album.

Nothing serious planned. I like the idea of moving to fibre to home broadband and moving to a separate network switch for the system itself but that's a working change more than anything else. I'm completely happy with the performance of the equipment here and realistically the only changes will...

I got sent a Songbird by accident (long story) earlier this year. It was genuinely good; Ultimately, the 'cheap' ones have been around for eons and this tends to reduce the excitement toward them because we do tend toward the new and shiny. Things from the Blackbird and up are technically...

Oh, the price- I guess at least someone will be wondering about that. I have no idea about the dollar price but, today in the UK for the speakers and amps/crossovers is £24,720, all connected up by *coughs* £2,740 of cables. That is exclusive of source equipment, stands, and mains.

As my Christmas present to me, the active system is back (for review). Presenting active system 2 (electric boogaloo). First up, more Titans. This time the 606 has turned up (yes, the 505 is still here because I am the luckiest bastard alive). Now, the 606 behaves much like the 505 so we...

It'll work but it's realistically going to be overkill. Even if we take a high percentage cart/table ratio such as Rega, it still burns through that by a factor of about 300%. So the answer is to buy an RPM 10 and the Frog. Sorted.

In Yurp, we can send it back to Van den Hul for a full rebuild fairly easily- it comes back as new. Prices aren't outrageous either. Obviously, this applies to the rest of the world too, it just takes longer.

The Hana is a fine cartridge; well made, great measurements (both in terms of what comes out of it and what it needs going in) and it won't ever be a disappointment. If you can accomodate the Van den Hul though, it- and I appreciate the utter uselessness of this line- just does music better...

Depth Detail Timbre. Apparently.

There are plenty of options here too but thus far, the DDT-II has seen off all the ones I've tried. If you can work with the odd tracking force (1.65g), odd output (0.65mv- which tends to clip a 60dB gain stage) and that it is quite sensitive to impedance settings, it's monumentally good. I...

If there is a better cartridge under £1,000 I have yet to hear it; It presents some... interesting... measurements and the man who makes it is demonstrably insane but it is a truly outstanding device. And the worst. Well; This is a pretty good place to start. Yes, they sound a bit better...

This showed up today; Slow Readers Club; 91 Days in Isolation The band used the first UK Lockdown to work individually on ideas that they refined over the summer. I really like it; it brings some new ideas to the table.

Listening to the Rocky IV soundtrack for the first time (I believe) this century. It seems appropriate.

That's got the same problem my IsoTek Corvus has; wall wart PSUs tend to block sockets on the opposite bank- the perils of three pin plugs.

I've tested one of those, It's very very good indeed.

Correct. You win the speedboat.

That would likely cannibalise some sales from Quad. Part of the issue is that you can buy the circuit designs (Stereo 20, Stereo 40 etc) from other suppliers as the intellectual property lapsed so the USP of Leak doing it would be more limited.