Quality is as good or better than CD, depends on the resolution and sample rate of the source. Your description of a squeezebox is basically right, though the newest (which I think Ali is bringing to Owston also can contain its own storage instead of needing a remote computer). I dont think there ar...
or not .... as there are hundreds of valve amp users with varying degrees of neg.feedback employed who are happy with what they hear. Where it can be written as "or not .... as there are hundreds of X who are happy with what they hear." where X can be many things, for example "Bose u...
I would think its main merit is simplicity. Though it IS using a valve of course, just not an additional one. I would guess its main failing is lack of balance, it only gives balance if the load is equal on both sides, which I can see it may not be in some cases. And I can see balance falling off at...
I had a speed read through that Wiki page, interesting it was used to try to reduce distortion in Telephone repeater amps not 'hifi' or radiograms as such. Yep, that was the area were low noise, low distortion and high reliability mattered. If you look at the last generation of valves (the space ag...
Who can say, I know I can;t. But one thing is a bit odd. The site says: here are a number of advantages to the hand-built PrimaLuna over the cheaply mass produced AVC. Firstly, the PrimaLuna uses ONLY point to point hardwiring in the signal path, unlike the AVC which has a large, cheap PCB holding m...