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ROG Crosshair VIII Impact
I purchased this board as the basis of the PC I built after 10 years of using Apple Macs, with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900, Geforce 3070 GPU and 64Gigs of Corsair 3200 memory, using water cooling which the Asus supports out of the box.To power this lot was a Corsair HX750i PSU.Every thing worked…
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NAD T778 AV Receiver
Recently (22/07/21) obtained the NAD T778 AV Surround Receiver to replace the ageing Cambridge Audio CXR200. I have only ever used these two AV Receivers in stereo mode (have a centre speaker now, much better for video with surround sound ), the reasons being the greater flexibility in connecting the TV, CATV, Blu-Ray, AppleTV and…
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After 10 Years, A New PC Build
After 10 years having an iMac then a Mac Pro (trashcan) late 2013 the frustrations with the Apple universe were building up, cost being top of the list. Increasingly I found that a lot of the software I wanted to run was windows only, if there was a Mac version it was either very good…
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In Praise of the HP Envy 120 Series Printer & Scanner
Starting with the scanner I personaly think it is a good design, for a start the scanning mechinism is in the lid which means no greasy marks on the glass when placing or removing items for scanning. Second the lid has some weight to hold items flat and you can see whether it is straight…
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Panasonic DP-UB820 Blu-Ray Player
For a while now I had been considering replacing the Cambridge Audio azur 752BD with a machine that would play 4K Blu-Ray discs as well, but decided that I would keep the 752BD and buy a 4K Blu-Ray player. As the player would only need to play 4K discs its Hi-Fi credentials were not a…
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HP Stream 14
The HP Stream 14 has a 30GB eMMC and 4GB memory with Windows 10 installed, Celeron N3060 Intel processor, 1366 x 768 14 inch screen, wireless LAN and Bluetooth, HDMI, three usb and a SD card slot, not impressive but would do the job I had in mind. First problem was Windows 10, not enough…
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PMC Twenty5.21 stand-mount loudspeakers
Since the upgrade to the Cambridge CXR200 I have become increasingly aware of the Q300’s sonic shortcomings, after considerable listening there were three clearly identifiable areas where the Q300’s suffered: The Q300’s could be tiring to listen too, but this aspect went away once I’d added the Q400b subwoofer and integrated into the system, all…
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Cambridge CXR200 AV Receiver
The amplifier in my system has been the Arcam FMJ19, an excellent piece of kit, but limited to analogue inputs only. What was required was something that sounded as good or better, capable of handling HDMI, digital and analogue inputs, to get away from having to select the input required on the TV and then…
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Cambridge Audio azur 752BD-D
I recently had the chance to compare the Cambridge Audio azur 752BD and the Audiolab 8200CD CD playing abilities, as far as CD’s are concerned the Audiolab lost. I initially was looking for a good Blu-ray player and eventually settled on the Cambridge, the player met my expectations with Blu-ray discs but with CD’s I was…