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- Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
Their marketing has evolved over the decades. The latest seems to be space optimisation. WTF
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:27 pm
- Forum: DIY
- Topic: Concrete Cube
- Replies: 79
- Views: 28385
Re: Concrete Cube
We are having a new patio laid next month. I was wondering what to do with the old slabs.
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:58 am
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
I remember the magazines of the early 80s maintaining that a quality TT had to be a belt drive suspended subchasi design. The reasoning was that a belt was required to eliminate vibration from the motor and springs were required for isolation from acoustic feed back. I suspect the Glasgow mafia was ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
I lost interest in hifi and stopped reading magazines in the mid 80s when i was fully aware of what was going on. Hearing an LP12 had a lot to do with that, everything the magazines said about it was :Bllocks: . I also lost faith in dealers when the salesman criticised my taste in music for not appr...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:46 pm
- Forum: NVA Discussions
- Topic: NVA and the remote volume control convenience
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11920
Re: NVA and the remote volume control convenience
I set a volume on the pre amp and for adjustments have remote volume control convenience through my streamer and the BubbleUp app on my phone. Can also select what albums i play from the sofa from Qobuz or my Naz.
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:19 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Your last listen
- Replies: 8378
- Views: 2173482
Re: Your last listen
The Rolling Stones - Tatoo you
The Velvet Underground - White light/white heat
The Velvet Underground - White light/white heat
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:42 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
https://www.audiobanter.co.uk/uk-rec-audio-general-audio/1952-linn-ariston-2.html Check out the later part of post 13. Actually, the whole thread is worth a read. Very informative link. I was unaware that Hamish's daughter was threatened with violence by Ivor. How anyone could have anything but the...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
He was a nasty bully with anyone who disagreed with him, you must have not disagreed with him. He disagreed with me about the contents of a letter i had published in Popular Hifi. His two page published response was nasty towards me amongst all the bullshit about Linn being enthusiasts and not clev...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 3:49 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Your last listen
- Replies: 8378
- Views: 2173482
Re: Your last listen
Emerson, Lake and Powell
Candlemass - Tales of creation
Candlemass - Tales of creation
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Hi-Fi Honesty
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30425
Re: Hi-Fi Honesty
Ivor T was the biggest purveyor of bullshit of the 20th Century bar Goebbels.