I have started playing with CAS (computer audio source) for over a year now. My system comprises of an Asus EEEPC netbook feeding an M2Tech Hiface USB to coaxial converter, which feeds into the coaxial input of my Benchmark DAC1. In term of sound quality, my netbook + hiface setup […]
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There are lots of website out there giving advise on how you should go about buying your first hi-end stereo system. Although many of them give good advices, I found most of them basically end up saying ‘go and listen to as many equipment as possible and decide yourselves’. While […]
It has been over a year since my last post. I wanted to write about my ‘new’ speakers for a long time but never got motivated enough to do it. Instead of sitting in front of my computer, I chose to sit in front of my system and listened to […]
My audio system has gone through quite a bit changes in the last few months. I wanted to simplify my system – no tubes, no mono blocks ore even separate pre/power amps, just a solid state integrated amplifier. Not that I don’t like tube amps. They sound great, they are […]
I have built and owned the Pi 3 high efficiency for a year now. It sounded pretty exciting at first, but
Now I have lived with the Pi speakers for over 3 months, and I can say I am really happy with it. The soundstage feels very real and natural, not exaggerated. I find that I do not need to concentrate on ‘audiophile qualities’ such as imaging, soundstage etc anymore, but […]
After two months of hard work, I have finally completed my first pair of DIY speakers – the 3 Pi. Interestingly, it is also my first high efficiency speakers – they are rated at 98dB. I really love to write about them here but at the moment I am too […]
After building many interconnect cables, it is clear to me that the RCA connector is just as important as the cable itself. RCA plugs can be very expensive (e.g. WBT, clearaudio) but do they really sound that much better than the cheap ones? I decide to terminate several interconnects with […]
This topic has been written many times on the net. The most popular DIY silver interconnect recipe is probably the one proposed by Chris VenHaus – spiral a pair of insulated silver wires around a core. This method gives a very low cable capacitance as the signal wire and the […]
I have owned the Quicksilver Audio mini-mono amps for around 4 years now. I have own a few different amps in the past – Classe Audio P100, Assemblage (by Sonic Frontier) ST-40 tube amp, Plinius SA100mkIII, and I have listen a few others in my system. While the quicksilvers may […]