I usually buy from Farnell (Minimum order 20GBP on credit card) or RS (No minimum order with an account). If you're buying 100GBP+ then Digikey makes sense as the pricing is lower than either Farnell or RS.

Quote: The S700 DAC is a steal for £79 new Where's it on offer at that price? Seen it recently at RicherSounds for 99 quid but not any cheaper. With HDCD, isolation, etc etc its a definate bargin...

I spoke with a RicherSounds branch to see if I could acquire for a colleague a pair of HD600's. It seems their bargin basement price (110 GBP) was a clearance price and the store manager quoted them as being end-of-line from Sennheiser. I've seen HD600's still being sold for 200+ GBP and always...

Quote: Originally posted by insanefred The latest I've heard on the Musical Fidelity side of things is that both the X-Cans V2 and the X-LPS have been discontinued, I rang Musical Fidelity and asked the same question about the X-Can having been told by my dealer it was nolonger...

I'm in the UK and bought an X-CanV2 recently for use on my pC and with my Cyrus CD7. I use HD580's and the result is very good. The X-Can gives a wider soundstage, richer and warmer bass and sounds much more pleasent than the headphone amp output on my Cyrus aCA7.5 Dont expect massive...

Has anyone experienced the SONY MDR-DS8000 Home Cinema Cordless Headphones? I'm looking for an alternative to the multiple speakers required in a usual AV setup.

I received my X-CanV2 a couple of days ago and its been burning in. Initial sounds are really good (First can amp). Having read all the comments about the PSU I wonder if mine is different. My delivery came from "a new batch of X-Can's from China" according to the dealer and M.F. have said to me...

I use an 8024 at home on my Cyrus setup (3xSmartPower, preamp and CD7) all feeding a pair of MonitorAudio Gold Reference 60 speakers all cabled with QED SilverSpiral Interconnects. I must say, I'm impressed with the 8024. I fed the CD7's S/PDIF output with a home made cable into the 8024 and...

Does anyone have some suggestions on a good quality sound card and headphone amp? Having seen the review of the Audigy on TomsHardware.com when pitted agains a Terratec its left me doubtful of the Audigys sonic ability. The Terratec EWX 24/96 looks on paper to be an excellent card with impecable...

Belling Lee manufacture a good range of inlet and chassis filters. http://www.belling-lee.com/fmproductsidx.htm Easily available in the UK from http://rswww.com I used the SF4220 in a shielded ABS box with shielded mains cables. Works really well. The SF1010 gives reasonable antenuation...

What about some input mains filtration? Input IEC (Or country specific) socket with inbuilt filters are cheap (About 8 to 15 GBP) and beneficial or you can add a multi-stage chassis mount for greater filtration but at 60+ GBP... Is the X-PSU nothing more that a four output 12 transformer...