Custom/tax/courier charges probably ends up around 1/3 of the value of goods.

https://headphone.guru/canjam-london-sponsored-by-underwood-hifi-part-2/ Review of London Canjam

Normally people turned off valve amp when not listening as valves have limited life span & weaken over time

Maybe worth trying hd800 without the cardas cable with your EC amp. On my setup I like the cardas with just Hugo but prefer standard wire with my EC amp

Seems I am in luck too my uptone LPS1 had been shipped & hopefully get to me next week (international).

I am actually quite pleased by the fact that my sonicTransporter (small green computer) too runs cold :D

Agreed that they didn't make clear about the voltage. However I am not sure the uptone can be powered by LPS though (like circuit can't take it or something) - think it was mentioned on CA. So it is more a rough A-B compare of the 2 psu powering microRendu. Good idea re:using it upstream never...

Received my Paul Hynes SR3 7v (silver) LPS at long last lol! Burning it in now. Will be comparing it with Uptone LPS1 once it arrived later this month. With 7v LPS, the microRendu seems to stay cold unlike the ifi which is probably a good thing.

Does battery not weeken as you used up the charges? I mean like a reservoir as the water level reduces the pressure also lowered?

For me, unless I use big usb cable like Curious or possible good optical (haven't tried), I would not bother with thin usb wire which doesn't sound right compare to blutooth. Things seem to sound bigger, decent detail & good bass extention via BT. Certainly recommends try out youtube with hugo/BT

I actual like hugo's Blutooth (with mobile & tablet) as it cuts out wire's inference. It is lossy here & there but oddly extension pretty good. I tend to use BT for general stuff like youtube & on the go. For more serious listening I use microRendu/ Curious usb for that.

Thank you very much TheAttorney for the inform! I am planning to run on Linux/ Ubuntu in hope to reduce over head on the CPU. Sadly I lost the free trial due to installation crashes...oh well

Thank you romaz! I am still undecided in term of CPU, either i5 or i7 with plenty RAM. Most likely I will not be doing over sampling or filter but will give it a try out of curiosity.

Hi romaz, I wonder what do you use for running HQP? And what operation system do you use for it? I am currently considering getting a NUC for HQP. Many thanks for your thoughts!

Comfort wise it is still a little heavy, although the headband and cups did good job in distributing the weight.

Try Selfridges

Hopefully there will be some reviews of combining microRendu & Intona. However it must be noted that microRendu is not an usb isolator type device, it is a renderer and it is feed via LAN cable from wifi rounter & server (NAS or NUC etc) which is much cleaner than pc etc. It is a different...

microrendu has an in-built & improved version of Regen inside so i am not sure what is to gain (if any) by putting an addition usb isolator there...and yes I do have a microRendu so am awared of the usb output. Note microRendu cannot be connected directly to pc/mac, it must be connected to a...

Not sure what is USB isolator got to do with microRendu?

Exhibitors usually have new ear tips for people to use. If you have yours that will be good too - I used my own Comply at the show. As for advance booking, this is new & only applies to 3 very special items. Check with CanJam organiser your end to see is there such arrangement there. But best...

For me, I would bring a DAP or portable DAC and your headphone so that you will have a reference point to compare to in term of sound. Also bring your own quality recording music files in flesh drive/ hard drive would be handy as you can ask the makers to play them; otherwise it can be hard to...

This is the situation we are in in the UK, there is limited options, you can go to show like this or fly to the US or buy blind. Note for head-fi some of the makers are tinny (with very low production) & quite hard to find them, not like big hifi brands.

I think you are missing the point, a head-fi show like this gives us a taster of equipments in one place, it is not designed as the definitive audition of gears (obviously a noisy environment). As you maybe aware in UK there are equipments here which have no distributors or agents thus no...

Resolution Audio Cantata

Thanks for RME DAC pricing inform. I thought this DAC sounded quite nice & have potential - I didn't spend long enough nor with with headphone i am more familiar with. Definitely worth a second longer listening session with. On quick A-B compare seems much nicer (richer & more colourful) than...