Sorry @Hianholland I thought I had replied... evidently not, apologies.
That's interesting about the Kef Reference's, I was under the illusion they were near faultless, so coming from someone who was openly biased, it's surprising you didn't enjoy them most.
I have been looking at the Raspberry Pi quite a bit lately so was going to do a little 'blog' on them soon. What DACs have you installed in them and also did you have any other considerations/alternatives when choosing your DAC chip?
On a separate note, in this down time I have been heavily amp hunting... integrated/stereo amp hunting. The non-exhaustive list I provided above has proven fruitless until now....!
I had been hunting, new, open box, refurbished, ex-demo, trade in, Classified Ads (here), Gumtree and as @gibbsy would say...evilBay lol Anyway, nothing has been found that has been either a bargain or just too far away.... until now!
Yesterday I tried a different approach. I was scrolling through the HT bypass list, on that amazing site that I have previously linked to above, and just putting in every brand into Gumtree by alphabetical order, changed 'Sort By' to "High to Low" and sifted through the lists.
Anyway, I got all the way down to R, more specifically Rega, and up pops two Elicit-R's!!! One for £995 and one for £900... in Scotland!! Yikes. So.... long story made not so long... I'm on a 7 hour round trip on Saturday for an Elicit-R that I managed to get for £900!!!! Boxed, instructions... the full shabang! My heart was set on a Yamaha A-S1100 or 2100 but nothing reasonable available. Pretty sure I've gone crazy, especially given my OP but hey, that's my story so far (and prob sums up my life TBH) .
That's interesting about the Kef Reference's, I was under the illusion they were near faultless, so coming from someone who was openly biased, it's surprising you didn't enjoy them most.
I have been looking at the Raspberry Pi quite a bit lately so was going to do a little 'blog' on them soon. What DACs have you installed in them and also did you have any other considerations/alternatives when choosing your DAC chip?
On a separate note, in this down time I have been heavily amp hunting... integrated/stereo amp hunting. The non-exhaustive list I provided above has proven fruitless until now....!
I had been hunting, new, open box, refurbished, ex-demo, trade in, Classified Ads (here), Gumtree and as @gibbsy would say...evilBay lol Anyway, nothing has been found that has been either a bargain or just too far away.... until now!
Yesterday I tried a different approach. I was scrolling through the HT bypass list, on that amazing site that I have previously linked to above, and just putting in every brand into Gumtree by alphabetical order, changed 'Sort By' to "High to Low" and sifted through the lists.
Anyway, I got all the way down to R, more specifically Rega, and up pops two Elicit-R's!!! One for £995 and one for £900... in Scotland!! Yikes. So.... long story made not so long... I'm on a 7 hour round trip on Saturday for an Elicit-R that I managed to get for £900!!!! Boxed, instructions... the full shabang! My heart was set on a Yamaha A-S1100 or 2100 but nothing reasonable available. Pretty sure I've gone crazy, especially given my OP but hey, that's my story so far (and prob sums up my life TBH) .