Got these in advance of the current pair wearing out.
June 25, 2014
New external HDD
4TB USB 3 drive to reorganise and back up stuff from my 3TB Firewire 800 drive which is nearly full.
Used to be Hitachi Global Storage Technologies now part of Western Digital. The very similar TOURO DX3 uses the greener 5400 RPM drive.
TOURO Desk PRO.
Optical Splitter
I got this optical splitter to take the single digital optical audio out from my TV and split it two ways, one for the 5.1 home theatre amplifier and one for the headphones. I also got a D/A converter and a headphone amplifier.
New Headphone Amplifier
Because my TV only has optical out and I didn’t want to plug/unplug the headphones from the front of my Yamaha 5.1 receiver all the time. So I got an optical splitter, a D/A converter and this.
Package from Singapore.
SMSL sApII
UK plug for the 24V PSU.
S.M.S.L sAp II Headphone amplifier. (SMSL sApII)
Swiss Army Knife for comparison. The volume knob has some tasteful blue LED lighting behind it. Wired up and working. The sound seems good – a nice tight bass.