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Think that you can adjust the volume by taking the volume knob off and turning to get more volume.

Not sure though if this purely for the headphone output.

Contact Stan Beresford for more info.

I used to have a Pioneer PD-S705 which was similar to the Pioneer PD-S703...

...used as a transport with the 90s era John Westlake Dacmagic 2 MKII to good effect.

There is some useful info here...

I am a long term member at the Steve Hoffman forum...

...I also regularly check the DR Database before CD purchases.

I can confidently say that most of my CD versions of albums (mostly 80s and...

Unsurprisingly Martin Hannett (producer of Joy Division, ACR, Durutti Column etc) had quite the setup:-

Including Revox A77 and B77 tape recorders, Ferrograph tape recorders, 2 pairs of Quad...

In fairness I have a lot to thank Englebert for.

As one of the few stars that maintains homes in Beverly Hills...

...and er Leicester. Enge played golf with my father regularly at a course in...

Yep CD playing surfaces are graded separately to the sleeve. Maybe not as important as vinyl but still a thing in tge collector's world.

...unless you want to sell high value discs on Discogs (which gives separate gradings for media and sleeve materials).

If you are playing the latest Adele disc - probably not an issue...

...but...

I've not really got OCD!

But if I did have - I would be OK with the turntable vinyl wear process (as it is a natural part of the designed process).

With a properly designed CD player - you...

Mistaken probably not the right word - there are definitely numerous cases of players that scratch discs (perhaps a certain batch).

Here is the whole 22 page discussion - lots of happy users but...

The Audiolab has got a lot of fans...

...but is a slot loader. A number of people on the Steve Hoffman forum have reported that it scratches discs.

The Cambridge CXC is a conventional drawer...

I've had the SEG50 upgrade for a couple of weeks now.

My Caiman SEG resides on my bedroom nightstand...

...I listen on Sennheiser HD650 headphones when I go to bed.

The soundstage is amazing...

OK I have listened to about 10 albums now with the SEG50 chip...

Around 10 years ago I had a Little Dot III valve headphone amp. This was nice and had a nice liquid sound and superb sound-stage...

OK Thanks guys that is reassuring - I probably needed a new stylus anyway (things are sounding better with the new one in place).

OK thanks I wasn't aware of that - the balance is out by just over 1db...

...so that would be normal then?

BTW I have been correcting this in Goldwave by selecting the left channel of the rip...

I am principally a digital music fan - I got into CD in 1985 and have thousands of the silver discs.

But I got back into vinyl about 5 years ago...

...with a cheap Project Primary phono USB...

I rang Stan on Tuesday and asked for a SEG50 chip...

...got it in the post on Thursday - great service considering the postal delays at Xmas.

Fitted after a few minutes trying to tease the chip...

A friend of mine recently said in distress...

...I will soon have more vinyl of colour than black vinyl in my collection.

It's beyond a joke now and much like the kneeling thing in football......

It's like all this bloody coloured vinyl!

If you work for a record company - please, please wise up...

...people that actually listen to their LPs - are mostly not retarded 5 year olds.
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Stan - I have a Dorado MK1 (or possibly MK2 has a blue LED) running at 16v from an adjustable Chinese Linear PSU...

...I think you told me that it is OK to whack up the driving PSU to 16v.
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So what is SEG 50 supposed to bring?

...I can't find any reference to it in the technical firmware section of Stan's site.

Like you I still have SEG 30 firmware.

Peter Belt used to have a thing against even numbers and Hi-Fi...

The way books are bound they always have an even number of pages.

But if you fold over the corner of one page in every book and...

They are talking about the inside casing labelled "Caution - Do Not Remove" etc...

...maybe they should have put that label on the outer casing - to stop people seeing how it clearly is not...

Read the full thread - there is nothing to tell you whether the disc has PE on the CD or booklet.

You need to consult one of the lists in this thread or Discogs (for the precise issue of a certain...

True - but if you are like me and detest modern brickwalled remasters...

...you will want the first UK CD (which is usually the one with Pre-Emphasis).

Having gone to the trouble of finding a...

Given the amount of time people discuss things like cables, fuses etc on Hi-Fi forums - it amazes me that so few people seem to know or care about pre-emphasis.

I wonder how people on here have...