Here’s something interesting.  Well, interesting because it’s super cheap.  The QLS wizz-kids – them behind the QA-550 WAV player – now a have digital amplifier with in-built DAC ready to ship direct from Shen Zhen for US$320 (+ US$50 shipping).  It probably won’t sound as good as your Krell, but it’s certainly a possibility for a guest bedroom or shed

I was two glasses of Barossa Shiraz into the evening and had already begun to talk bollocks.  An audiophile buddy was over to infuse my Audio-gd DI with some clock mods (and a transparent lid).  He began pulling on my coat about what I thought of the Metrum Octave.  That’s where the word association shenanigans began: “Fast, Perrier, Schweppes tonic

Inflating the tyres on the Trends T-amp coverage: add a PA-10 tubed pre-amplifier (and head-amp) to the previously reviewed TA-10.2 (in power amplifier mode) and have them both fed by a dedicated linear power supply box, the UD-10.1 – that’s the “Combo One” meal… One hot August in the very early nineties (and a few weeks before heading off to

You can’t always get what you want. This story begins with bad vibes.  Melbourne’s Burson Audio are a tough bunch to get hold of.  There’s no phone number or street address (on their website) so it’s an email only affair.  This approach does them a disservice.  It ain’t just me and my paranoia talking.  I’d already heard numerous anecdotal reports

Robyn Hitchcock once said: the people we should fear the most are those with no sense of humour. Conventional wisdom has it that Americans don’t have a sense of humour.  One look at Seinfeld, Friends, The Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons (and countless others) soon smothers that untruth.  An untruth you’ll often here from some of the most humourless