I bought a cheap Argos rack - for most I disposed of the jewel cases and put them in thin plastic sleeves with their covers and put them in the loft. Then when I got a Chord Blu2 DAVE CD player decided to resurrect my CD collection. I have kept some CDs just as they were when new as looking at various internet sites they could fetch quite a bit - not that I’d sell, but when I’m dead and gone others will want to. I still find the CD can sound better than its rip. Of course, the vinyl gets pride of place.
@linesrg - you can reduce how much space CDs take up and store them away. I agree decluttering is good. I got rid of old books and got Kindle editions where possible, it was great as with no books on shelves gathering dust, there is more room for vinyl records.
OK, the answer you were probably looking for is not how the NAS sounds, but how the change has affected the sound of the streamer and the rest of the audio system (as opposed to the digital system which doesn’t have any characteristic sound of its own!).
I can find very little about this on the internet. Specs, manual, review nothing.
I bought it for it’s looks, in some twisted thinking along the lines of form follows function… ie if it looks that good it should sound OK and it’s a big step up on the late 1980’s clamshell Rega Radio I had been using.
Oooh, quite a rare bit of kit and a great looking tuner (and at least it won’t cook the paint finish like the partnering A1 amp). How does it compare performance-wise with the Rega Radio?
It is nice thanks Richard and in a different league to the Rega. I’m really enjoying it through the SN2 and the Rega is working nicely and to much enjoyment in my girlfriend’s system. Happy days…
My SPU Royal N has arrived along with a Hifi News test record and a brass cartridge mounting plate for the tonearm which will help increase the effective mass. At this point I realised my Feickert protractor is still in Montpellier so mounting it will wait until after Christmas rather than muck about with the one that came with the test record.
Of course I couldn’t resist running my current setup through its paces. I was warned when I ordered the record that the bias tracks led to too much bias and sure enough a buzzing appeared in the right channel on the third one, adjusting it out took a quarter turn but I returned it to my setting for the rest of the tests. The resonance tracks were curious, I got warbling of the 300Hz carrier tone from 16 Hz down peaking at 14Hz but no wobble until 7Hz with the horizontal there was no response visible but the same warble response across the same range.
My azimuth was spot on.
No longer on demo now in the system, delighted with the music upgrade @Cymbiosis real winner with these Titanaudio leads and it means I can put power line on HCDR!
I’ll be making a similar trip up to Leicester soon too Dan. Same cartridges (ex Kandid) on my list too. Urika1 makes sense for me too since I have Radikal, but wondering if you compared it with Superline or not before choosing and what you thought?
Audioquest RCA jumpers to replace the pre >> power metal rods in my amp and IsoKinetic Silver 8 figure 8 mains cable with RF screening for my Musical Fidelity SMPS.
I had a Superline and replaced it with Urika which has morphed in to Urika II.
I couldn’t get on with Superline as I don’t speak Czech and could not understand anything on the free radio station it picked up as bonus. Ignoring that I simply preferred the Urika’s sound quality. Urika is not flexible, but I used it with DV cartridges and really liked it. Urika II is a further step up in my system, but requires Exakt.
I’m sure Peter can give you a view and let you listen to both. You may not agree with my findings.