Recent content by afewbeers

It's hard to be happy to hear such news, detestable as he is, but I do wonder where all this stuff is coming from. This is all starting to get very Mcarthy-esque.

I'm not sure why we need more legislation when all the activities that have resulted in the Leveson enquiry are already against the law. The only things that need changing are the implications and penalties for breaking those laws. Oh, and it would help if prosecutors had more effective...

Played my copy last night and maybe I have a poor pressing but struggling to take his recent comments about sq too seriously

I'm quite sure that just substantially raising the levels of compensation for those mis treated by the press or inaccuracy would be more than adequate for ensuring self regulation/survival.

Over budget but something like a second hand Linn Sneaky DS is probably good kitchen fodder. I sold one for £500 but really should have kept it on reflection. The new software allows easy radio/nas replay along with songcasting that allows it to stream directly from a laptop so spotify etc are...

Fascinating, thanks Markus. My old man used to say, focus on important things in life, but take pleasure from little things.

Except these days, they get just long enough to write a book and meet friends for lunch on the south Downs. Unlikely they'd earn less than £250k for a six month spell. That's ignoring the increased after dinner speaking rates available on release.

Good post Jo.

Urika and Akiva is special for sure, have no idea how it compares to the Naim stuff though.

Linn Klimax kontrol on ebay for £2.5k. Has the necessary balanced options.

I used an audio technica oc9 for a brief spell some years ago; it was very sensitive to phono stage loading options and sounded very thin and lightweight through a Linn Linto that I was using at the time. Through a trichord Dino with different loading options it was a entirely different beast...

Probably better off selling each part separately Plinth, platter, bearing and inner platter, lid and hinges, arm, motor, top plate, sub chassis.

I heard about a guy who said that sometimes his hifi could make him cry. One presumes that the reason it didn't make him cry all the time was because he wasn't in the mood. My ds streamer is the only thing that could make me cry, and that's when the network doesn't recognise it and I can't...

I seem to recall in the old days of needle drops there was no consistent identification of sondeks tethered anti rotation sub chassis and the un tethered one. Reputations (particularly after 40 years) tend to reflect some degree of truth; the fact that the LP12 did not quickly gain a nasty...

Hmm, I'm the opposite, I think cars are actually a good environment to listen to music in. Granted i suppose it's not hifi, but in terms of musical enjoyment I've found the car a great place to enjoy music. Some manufacturers have done quite well in integrating systems in to their cars, probably...