My Purifi Eigentakt amplifier

Let's talk a bit about amplifiers. I owned numerous devices. Commercial and DIY. Jeff Rowland, Anaview Abletec, Hypex,  T-amps, SMSL and the list goes on and on. I tried many of those ebay Class-D modules. I tried all kind of power supplies (connex/hypex/linears, ...), I tried several full digital amps. and I compared these to even more amps owned by audiophile friends of mine. 

Oh dear. What a career. I swapped Class-D output transformers with Mundorf coils, replaced rectifiers, cabling, fuses connectors, power cables and the DIY tweak list goes on and on.

And recently I got my hands on a Purifi Audio Eigentakt 1ET400A Stereo Eval1 amplifier. integrated into a Ghent Audio case.

I am running this amp since 2021. Puh. What a journey.

Gustard V18 vs. Allo Katana - a 2022 assessment

For almost a year or so I am running an IMO excellent Gustard A18 DAC.  The Gustard builds around the top of the line AKM AK4499 and Accusilicon clocks.  The DAC received quite some nice reviews confirming my experience with it.  Most reviewers saw that DAC challenging much pricier rivals. Until now I was never in doubt about the overall DAC performance...

Raspberry PI OS 64 bit officially released

The RPI foundation finally officially announced the release of RPI OS 64.

audio@advise passes 1.000.000 site visits

Hey... 

...just figured that the site visit counter of blogger passed the 1.000.000 for audio@vise!!!

I thought it'd be worth mentioning. 

sKit and pCP81 - regression test successful

On December 5th  pCP 8.1 was released.

I just did a sKit regression test on my RPi4. I used the 64 bit version.

And I did a maiden installation.

It all went OK. Not a single hiccup! Great.