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    Join Date: May 2010

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    I'm Alex.

    Lightbulb Dare to take this listening test?

    Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?

    Alex.

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    Join Date: Apr 2016

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    I'm Chris.

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    All a bit of a nonsense through your computer system.
    Source
    SW1X Universal Music Server UMS I Signature with Power Supply Unit PSU I Signature
    SW1X USB II
    SW1X DAC III Special
    Audiolab 6000 CDT transport
    Amps
    Pre amps -- Hi fi Collective twin mono ladder stepped attenuator, with Charcroft Z-foil and silver wired. And First Watt B1 active no gain buffer.
    Power amps -- Welborne 45 SET monoblocks 1.8W / Decware Taboo 6W / Elekit 300B TU-8600SVK plus further improved components 9W / ICE Power 1000W
    Speakers
    Highly modified Endorphin P17 open baffle speakers containing both vintage and modern alnico drivers and paper cones. All silver wired - 8" Cube Audio FC8 full range drivers and vintage 15" Altec VOTT 416 bass drivers. All sat on Townsend Audio Podium seismic isolation platforms.
    BK Electronics XLS400FF Sub.
    Cabling
    Silver mains cables, interconnects and speaker cables by SW1X
    Headphones
    HRT HeadStreamer and SennHeiser HD650 headphones

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    Bigman80 Guest

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    Should sound better regardless of what you listen through.

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    Join Date: Feb 2008

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    I'm NotTakingLifeTooSeriouslyTheseDays.

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    My problem was; with most of them; I chose the uncompressed version first, then changed my mind, I was listening on my laptop though!
    "Today scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality"
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    Join Date: Jan 2008

    Location: West Yorkshire

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    I'm Andy.

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    3 out of 6 guessed right (headphones on my works laptop) - looks like I have cloth ears after all............
    May as well sell my hifi and stick to reading.
    Main system:
    Analogue.
    Michell Orbe with arm decoupling kit & Pete's Pylons. SME V arm, Denon DL103M (FGS), Firebottle OPT MKII phono amp
    Technic SP-10 in Obsidian plinth, AT1010 PMAC v8b arm, Goldring Elite MC Cart and BB3 Phono Amp
    Leak Lenco GL75 with Ortofon OM10 cartridge
    Technics RS-BX404 Cassette Deck
    Network Player.
    Raspberry PI plus R2-R DAC (also used as a CD player) plus Pi NAS Server
    Digital.
    Philips DCC 730 player
    Marantz CD50SE
    Amp.
    Audiolab 8000A
    Speakers.
    Reiver Jenna floor standers
    HeadPhones.
    Sennheiser HD545 Ref, HD600, HD477

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    Bigman80 Guest

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    5/6. Happy with that considering I did it with one earphone in a busy office

    The one I got wrong was Katie Perry. No surprise really lol

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    Join Date: Mar 2012

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    I'm Dave.

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    4 out of 6. laptop and headphones.
    Kraken, Saturn, Emotion, Flying V Rocket, Planets.

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    Join Date: Mar 2009

    Location: Nottingham

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    I'm Ian.

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    5/6

    PC > behringer usb dac thingy (UCA202) > rotel ra820bx3 > Rogers LS4 (badly sited)

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