How long should you hang on to something that you aspired to, but no longer use? Deep philosophy?  Not really, just one of the thoughts th...

Interesting article that claims a number of former Linn employees have jumped ship and created Simple Audio, focussing on the streaming mark...

Spent an interesting couple of hours in the hifi shop this afternoon with Naim enthusiast Richard trying some streaming / DAC combinations. ...

Local Naim enthusiast R has a new job, which is great news.  Less great is that it involves staying away from his Naim system during the wee...

After over a year of waiting, the NP 30 is finally coming to the UK. Priced at £399 it sits between the Logitech Touch and the Cyrus Strea...

I've come over all Shakespearean and its down to the new heart of my system, the Cyrus DAC-X. It was secondhand and has been performin...

HDTracks are ramping up more popular releases.  Demand must be growing and in a similar vein to the way CDs were released in their early day...

Since the February 2011 school half-term holidays and my brother's visit with his Cyrus DAC-X and PSX-R, life hasn't been quite the ...

Its a shame, but this is the way of new technologies and web sites at the moment.  You're lured in by free services, then they add adver...

Good to see that this kind of debate is taking place on a site as commonly used as Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/mp3/forum/ref=cm_cd...

Yet more news on the "HD" FLAC download front. 7Digital, the download site that is linked in from Spotify has announced 24 bit d...

Enjoyed UK Pink Floyd tribute band Think Floyd  at the Dartford Orchard Theatre last night. I've had the pleasure of seeing / hearing ...

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Full current system pictures have been added at the page tabs at the top of the home page, as has a current system diagram.

For those of you paying attention, the streaming set up currently looks like this: QNAP NAS (including SqueezeServer software) - Etnernet o...

Thanks to good audiophile friend Alan and good audiophile site Computer Audiophile for this one! There's a rumour that Apple's iT...

More information on the Cyrus streamer was announced at the Bristol show.  I should've said streamers rather than streamer, as its actua...

No changes to the rest of the system (although there is a bit relating to cables...) so this is the first stages of experimentation with str...

CA have been touting this device for about 10 months now. Supposedly with Wolfson DACs, but not using the same circuitry nor config as the D...

Managed to grab about 30 mins of downtime amongst the bathroom decorating today. I chose to play music through the Squeezebox Touch / DACM...

Having studied the various PC / USB / NAS / Squeezebox / Ethernet / WiFi options for approximately 12 months, I've made the decision to...

A warm coke fired Rayburn fire, my favourite Corgi, Dinky and Matchbox toy cars, the Hornby OO in the other room, Toad in the Hole with grav...

Map of recent visitor locations, just FYI.

I'm sure there must be a reason for this product to exist, but I'm really struggling with the way Bryston have gone with the BDP-1 d...

More good news, but not quite so hot off the press, given that MF are advertising in pretty much every hifi mag with this at the moment.  Bu...