Groove link sends you to their product catalogue page - then click at the top on 'Groove Products'

Heads up EM fans - special offer from Groove Unlimited (Dutch EM label also featuring several UK acts). Order 10 CD's together and pay about 5 pounds per disc (they do ship to UK). There is a lot of excellent electronic/space/ambient/sequencer here and in general the recordings and mastering are of ...

Dingsking wrote:Off to see Focus live on Saturday

They have an interesting mix of young and old members these days - but, alas, no Jan Akkerman.
Hope you have a good time.

That's the spirit! The revenge of the old prog fans! You should try the first 2 Solution albums ( 'Tommy' from Focus originated there).

And what about ' Moving Waves' by Focus? Holland had in the 70's (and still has) a very active prog- rock community.

Early NVA power amps had a DIN socket that provided power to the phono stage in the pre-amps, an external PSU was an optional upgrade. The covered hole looks to be where that socket would have been placed.

My A40 stereo amp still has the same DIN socket and I got the PSU to run my P80 preamp.

Could be your setup is now so transparent you hear the weaknesses in the original recording.

Very clear, Doc, thankyou. So it comes back to personal taste / budget / room acoustics / rest of audio system.
Every installation is different and unique.

How is the Pi hooked up to the DAC. USB? Are you hearing jitter, a sort of veil in the signal.
24 bit uses considerably more digital bandwidth than 16, maybe the processor is having to work harder.

So that would make electrostatics & magnaplanars the 'ideal' loudspeaker??