Tír Na HiFi

On the radio I heard some of Isabelle Faust playing the Bach V+H sonatas. I really like her style - a mixture of modern and baroque - with plenty of cool intensity!! But my favourite recording is my LP of Alice Harnoncourt and Herbert Tachezi, issued as a box set some 40 years ago. My big box of Gl...

Finishing off the evening with Kovacevich's exceptional reading of Beethoven's masterpiece for solo piano.  A wonderfully gripping performance which still ranks in my mind as one of the very best versions of this amazing work. Ah yes, the diabolical variations... The first time I heard these a numb...

This must be headphone weekend at ALDI https://www.aldi.ie/altius-noise-cancelling-headphones/p/094357106717000 and LIDL http://www.tirnahifi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4221 . Anyone have experience of the noise-cancelling offering at ALDI? I'm looking for something to ease the commute and ba...

Well that was pretty amazing! I'd never heard it live before, though I have a few recordings. Sometimes live performances disappoint compared to what one has become used to on record, but this was definitely not one of those occasions. Maybe due to the enormous orchestral forces, being there allows ...

I nearly missed this one. Messiaen's incredible Turangalîla-Symphonie is on at the NCH tonight. This can't get many outings in Ireland, so should be something special. On the piano is Steven Osborne who played this in the Proms a few years ago. (It looks like the hall is less than half-full - what a...

See the recent discussion on the site here: http://www.tirnahifi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&p=83019#p83019 Plenty of good suggestions. I was looking for an easy solution to access my FLAC files on an external drive. Because I have an old laptop, a USB box that outputs a digital signal, and a DA...

Well after the thrill of 'designing' my own board and enjoying the solder fumes, I find that the exact design is available, on a fully populated board, for about 10 euro! You can even swap resistors and capacitors in and out to match the impedance of your cartridge. I put the links below in case som...

For customising earbuds to fit, you could also try Sugru. One of many great hacks for this stuff. https://sugru.com/tech-gadget/how-to-ma ... eadphones

looks very simple, was thinking of building one for a friend, but would like to incorporate volume control, so probably followed by a potentiometer is that viable? I was thinking a bit about this. The only problem I can see is that if you put another resistor across the output, you effectively make...

nige2000 wrote: The diagram from the website seems to suggest that r2 isn't part of the Allen right MOD and changing its value doesn't affect this adjustment

Yds, but check further down on the page. If you change the gain with R2 you need a small adjustment to R3.