Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

Bought a posh desk lamp.

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and a 3D printed case

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Tapo collection photos when? :p

It'll take too long to photo the whole lot :D

These are for testing out on one of the new wardrobes. With me testing if the Lepro will offer decent illumination when the door is opened.
If so the other wardrobes will be fitted with the same.
 
It'll take too long to photo the whole lot :D

These are for testing out on one of the new wardrobes. With me testing if the Lepro will offer decent illumination when the door is opened.
If so the other wardrobes will be fitted with the same.
I’ve bought an indoor Tapo camera TBF.

One of us…..
One of us…..
 
It'll take too long to photo the whole lot :D

These are for testing out on one of the new wardrobes. With me testing if the Lepro will offer decent illumination when the door is opened.
If so the other wardrobes will be fitted with the same.
Literally just about to sort something like this for our new wardrobe. Let me know how you get on!
 
Not a purchase as I was gifted this stack of 1:72 kits plus a small aircraft carrier. The plain box, 3rd from the top, is a vacuum formed Vulcan kit that requires you to cut the pieces out from a sheet styrene mould :eek:. Not sure where I will put them but added incentive to sort out my airbrush setup.

Only the first Airfix Vulcan and ESCI 'Fleet Eye' have been partially assembled. Half haven't even had the bags opened.

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the sonos app is awful, once theyre setup id recommend the app sonophone instead. much better than the official app.
Thanks

I'm just using Spotify at the moment once set up

The problem is the bloody things keep disappearing from "my (Sonos) system"
 
Thanks

I'm just using Spotify at the moment once set up

The problem is the bloody things keep disappearing from "my (Sonos) system"
yeah i get that on occasions. infact had it recently where i had to reset the majority of my system and re-add them. when they work, they work good.

my phone has my 2.4ghz and 5ghz wifi on it and when it switches between the 2 it ruins things as im then on a different network so thats something to watch out for (unless thats just a problem for me)
 
ES15S screwdriver. Replacement for my old ES120 which had broken. I keep doing this - I ordered the new one then with nothing to lose I took the old ES120 apart to see if I could repair it (the OLED screen had failed so no access to settings). Manufacturer did not offer spares but I located a generic part and managed to install it OK. Now it works again. I should learn to try and fix stuff _before_ ordering replacements..

If I made a list of stuff that simply did not need a settings screen it would have a "screwdriver" on it. Genuinely want to be enlightened here - what settings does a screwdriver have?

Please tell me you can buy a hammer with a GUI as well.
 
Finally it has arrived, no customs duty for once (shipped from NL). Aiyima A80 DAC/Amp with OPA828 dual OpAmps:

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Nice to see they didn't cheap out on the components or design, external power supply is 48V 5A, so the amp gets rather hot :eek:
 
If I made a list of stuff that simply did not need a settings screen it would have a "screwdriver" on it. Genuinely want to be enlightened here - what settings does a screwdriver have?

Please tell me you can buy a hammer with a GUI as well.
:-) Torque, speed, 'impact' (not really impact but it gives feedback at the end of travel), battery condition. Nothing essential but the speed and torque settings I adjusted to max and that's tricky without a working screen.
 
Finally it has arrived, no customs duty for once (shipped from NL). Aiyima A80 DAC/Amp with OPA828 dual OpAmps:

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Nice to see they didn't cheap out on the components or design, external power supply is 48V 5A, so the amp gets rather hot :eek:

New toy? When can we expect a review? It looks nice, is that screen OLED and how's the dial, clicky or smooth?

p.s. I sometimes wonder why does it need so much voltage to drive headphones, it's not exactly moving much air. 48V? My Dyson is running on half that.
 
New toy? When can we expect a review? It looks nice, is that screen OLED and how's the dial, clicky or smooth?

p.s. I sometimes wonder why does it need so much voltage to drive headphones, it's not exactly moving much air. 48V? My Dyson is running on half that.

It's a integrated speaker amp/DAC! No headphones output. 300Wx2 max hence the power input, though it takes up to 48V 10A but comes with a 48V 5A GaN adapter. the 10A one is much bigger and has an internal fan so sod that.

Screen is LCD but doesn't have any obvious issues so looks to be decent. The volume pot is ratcheted and the physical dial itself feels like solid rubber and weighs around 24g so feels rather nice top use and I prefer using it due to how it feels than using the remote

Here's how the display (on lowest brightness) looks in dim lighting, it has a display off mode too that wakes up the screen on any input:

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Three display modes for the graphics, I like the L/R VU meter and was one of the reasons I decided to buy it:

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The 2nd reason was the ability to swap the OpAmps to something superior.

For sound, only been a few hours listening but sound is very spacious, the DAC is very picky though with how good the source music mastering is whereas the Topping MX3S and my past NADs were more forgiving. Give them a lower quality master and those tracks still sounded OK but with this it is just very transparent and passes the low quality master to your speakers and ears :cry:, doesn't matter if it's Spotify or FLAC, poor source is still a poor source.

Listening to this right now and it's like the experience I get playing with the headphones on where every instrument is positioned specifically around me even though both speakers are in front of me...


Only issue is the power adapter when nothing is playing I can hear a tiny amount of coil whine if I concentrate but that's a me issue as I hear stuff like that and have to live with them.

So yeah, so far so good.
 
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