I've stated Europe but would consider from anywhere

That's what I was thinking. That's also why I want to use a silent mini PC, they are really small and well - silent. If the digital circuit in the Marantz is of the same quality as the CD and h/phone circuits then using flash drive sticks and by using Aomei partition assistant there should be no...

Could you explain further and costs involved, not that I'm bothered at costs involved but want to know how portable such a system would be. I intend to buy something like a class B or C motorhome to spend 3-4 months a year up in the mountains to escape the summer heat, which is getting worse...

At last thanks to Shannon Parks/Puffin phono pre I have solved The problem of not finding a small silent PC with a Toslink input. I contacted him and he gave me the link to a Facebook post from February last year. He saw someone (Bruce Kinsh) mention the - HIfime UR23 SPDIF OPtical to USB...

Oh dear just been looking and co-ax to USB is a no-no. Back to looking for a mini PC with co-axial input. Co-ax is 2 channel and that is exactly what I want.

The out on a Puffin is not USB. This originally only had an analogue out but then there was a mod shown on the Park site to provide for a digital out. You can now buy a Puffin with either Toslink or co-axial out. All replies fail to take account of the fact that I will not be using a laptop or...

I avoid all the problems you are dealing with by not using a laptop or using a USB connection. The Puffin Phono preamp can be had with a Toslink or S/PDIF co-axial - I shall go for the co-axial I want to feed that into a mini silent PC using either WAV or FLAC. The PC will only be used for...

Roseval, merci bien. Expensive but well specced and I wouldn't get hit with import taxes. I will contact the company re. the audio connections. m-i-c-k-e-y, Done a lot of research and for best sound laptops and USB connections are often noisy which is what I want to avoid. Also once I have...

I've been looking for one of these for some time now. I have an excellent Azulle BYTE 3, it came with Windows 10 Pro and installed a 500GB SSD and am very happy with the performance. Maybe in the USA Azulle lives up to it's promises about good contacts with buyers but weeks ago I emailed a...

Unbelievable that anyone interested in audio would say that.

But nowhere do you mention the importance of shielding on all power cables - a huge omission.

So tell us the specs of this power cable- what conductors, the AWG, the dielectric used, what kind of shielding.

Why no comment on the gear your using now?

If you do buy from Japan about €200 euros cheaper, that's not small change. TAGO also make the TAGO T3-02.

I see the Japanese TAGO Studio T3-01 mentioned in lots of posts but no actual review. The creator is a composer/musician/producer who also runs a recording studio. CD Japan are selling them for 54000 yen/415 euro.

Update - The h/amp has just got better and better and a 6007 user in Oz has given a thumbs up for the digital player as well. Supposedly the Oppo PM 2 don't have good bass, used with the 6007 I can't agree but then I don't like pumped up bass. I'm sure that once the modders get to work it will...

pcook80 I bought mine from a hi-fi shop in Germany for the equivalent of £363 including delivery. Your in the UK so maybe with Brexit you will get shafted for import duties, I know I will if I buy from the UK, living in France. At least with Covid a mask will not hinder your ability to hear...

gimmeheadroom your commenting on a piece of gear you've never heard, I call this trolling and is of no use to anyone. As someone who actually has the 6007 I can say unequivocally this is a brilliant piece of gear. In fact your getting 3 units in one big box. I ran a s/hand bought Marantz 63 KI...

As can be seen from my previous posts after getting zero response from Pro-Ject and their distributor in France I gave up on buying s small CDP and plumped for the latest Marantz CD6007. This is a big box but not full of air like so much audio gear. The CD mech. is silent, the h/amp is that good...

Jeep, outrageous shipping costs are killing business for individuals and small companies. I bought the brilliant Stereo coffee LDR volume/preamp. I make and used to sell air cored multi-conductor analogue i/connects so when Chris said he had an improved PSU board, I sent him a pair of my...

My new CDP arrived quickly from Germany and only cost €10 - how is it that the German owned DHL can deliver so cheaply, by far the cheapest carrier in the whole of Europe. Anything from the USA to Europe is outrageously expensive, it didn't use to be so. So the Marantz CD6007 is big but as it...

Jeep, agreed that swapping a new laser is not easy but changing a cartridge also requires a lot of attention.

Agreed, synergy is everything. I would add another term - continuity. I realised years ago that signal wiring has for most been out of sight/out of mind ergo - not important, insane but true. Anything that interrupts/disrupts or slows down the signal speed is corrupting the signal information...

depthgrammar, you jogged my memory I bought a s/hand Audio-gd DAC 19 DSP1 many years ago now, changed out the crappy connectors for silver RCAs and used silver wiring internally never got around to doing anything with it because I got sidetracked with health problems. I need to either use it or...

I doubt that things will change. The music industry decided to dump vinyl, making CDs was cheaper, easier and more profitable and downloads even more so. The UK edition of the Marantz is simply better power supply to the digital to analogue circuitry and upgrades to the analogue output. As you...