Just worked out that the PC I use for streaming Downstairs must be about 15 years old. When I bought it, it had Windows Vista installed with an upgrade package to the then forthcoming Windows 7. This 'ancient' desktop unit performs excellently as an audio source running the Linux-based Volumio opera...

Definite improvement in the clarity of sound from the streaming PC with new PSU. More punch, crispness and openness. Sound field is more solid allowing for better imaging in a system where the speakers are far from being optimally placed. Just goes again to prove that digital sources benefit from pl...

PC was off, luckily

I was already looking at replacements in case it was knackered too.

Just the PSU.

A near-hit from a lightning strike this week blew the external power supply for the streaming PC in my lounge system. Oddly, it was the only device that was affected, the safety switch on the main fuse-box tripped out and nothing else was damaged. Found a replacement PSU on Amazon and have installed...

That silver cable looks very nice and interesting.

https://www.audiocables.eu/cdn/shop/products/Mogami2534BalancedMicrophoneCablewithGoldNeutrikFemaleXLRtoMaleXLRConnectors.jpg?v=1636234109 Mogami cables : Not Chi-fi actually, but studio-use cabling manufactured in Japan and a mainstay of recording studios over the whole world for microphones, inst...

https://i.imgur.com/orNZD3j.jpeg First LP I've bought in more than a year. Here Jean Michel Jarre collaborates with several other electronic artists like Brian Eno and Martin Gore to rework tracks from his recent Oxymore album. It's a bit abstract and experimental musically but the production and e...

Foxton is brilliant. One of my early inspirations to take up the bass.

More critical listen-session this morning. The MC2 is very basic: Volume-pot and 2 in-out switches on the front, 2 sets of both XLR and RCA sockets on the back. Functions are selecting between XLR or RCA input and output along with master volume control. No active attenuation, no tone controls, just...