Given that this otherwise seriously interesting DAC is slightly compromised in aspects of its AC/DC implementation, the first thing that occurred to me was to gut the transformer assembly entirely and fit external batteries or Uptone LPS1. In line with the poster above, do you know if anyone has...

It's great to see our little 'cut-price Aqvox' idea catching on: I bet MikroTik have sold a ton of these handy critturs, and I know we see plenty of happy customers buying the 5V KingRex PSU II for this and similar applications. To be fair, Aqvox should really take the main credit for doing it...

I think the M200 Mk II is better value, but the Mark III does add power and finesse. A lightweight Fostex sub works well with them, but they're not conspicuously LF-shy.

We're itching to get our first demonstrators, but I have high hopes for the new DAC section, which (on paper) looks like a big step up from the HA160D and DA160 - just as the Soloist is (actually) a big step up from the HA160.   We've always said: “If Antelope could get together with Burson...

Quote: Probably my pair, then!   The comment back in the thread about impressing you, drawing you into music in a way that makes you take them for granted - then being impressed all over again - is dead right. Also, the 'close perspective' comment is on the money. Although it cedes...

Quote: Yup. The Isabellina, and the Burson Soloist on its mildest setting, are the two best I've heard with the TH900: for solid state the Burson is really sweet-sounding, but the combination of valves and batteries is hard to mimic: smooth and gutsy.

Some good ears there, jonstatt . . .   We stock both because customers often come to us with a strong preconception about what they want, based on someone else's opinion. As we always say, it's best to form your own opinion based on a proper extended audition - especially with something as...

I know the T200B and the M200 II + III very well, and have some A5X, too. To me, there's a big jump up from the M200III to the T200B, relative to a small improvement in power and finesse moving from the M200 II > III.  The A5X has laser-insightful treble, but the T200B is such a complete...

Quote: Yes - a netbook! £200 or less.

Didn't see anyone else there with Fostex TH900, so thought it likely! Several people commented it was their second favourite listen of the day - apart from the SR009, obviously . . .

@David1961: must have been our TH900 you tried at the UK show! They certainly surprised us in comparison to the LCD3 and Grado PS1000.   We've been thinking about the cable issue, too - and are speaking to Fostex UK about the possibility of a socketed version rather than recabling them...

Great to put faces to names, and thanks again Andy for putting it together!   As I said, we might be able to offer a central venue (between Birmingham and Manchester, just off the M6) next year if it's useful or popular.   Unpacking today, we seem to have acquired a white unbranded USB...

There are many opinions about USB cables, but only two kinds of people comment in public: 1. Those who have heard a few, and 2. Those who haven't.   If you listen to a variety of cables at a variety of price points, you will quickly be disabused of the nation that USB interconnects are...

A great, great shame. We corresponded a lot over the course of several years (we imported his cables into the UK), and he was genuinely one of the good guys.   We never met, but his warmth, large-heartedness, and intelligence, was always very evident from his emails and on the phone. We were...

I was talking to the nice people at CryoParts a couple of weeks ago: we'd both been seriously surprised by how good the little UC192 is: adaptive? £159? Surely not. It's most effective delivering AES/EBU and powered by the PSUII or the Valab supply. If anyone want to borrow a PSU to try it, just...