Recent content by guybat

Hi all - Ian Land's Silverhill Press has just published my new photo book A Death Foretold. Full of gloomy middle-aged dystopia - you know the score. And not a single piano or bollard in sight. Available here http://www.silverhillpress.co.uk/bookdetail.aspx?id=14 and a snip at £10.

That looks just like the Collings a friend sold a few years ago - a 25" scale sunburst OM. Every Collings I've played has been scary beautiful - both beautiful and rather intimidatingly perfect.

Joe - I hear you...

Thanks all - Genelecs and the APS Klasik (particularly) would both be great, but are on another price level. I'm really trying to get whether £200-£300 small active speakers have much pro/con to ~£200 small speakers with the Nait. Actives have the advantage of simplicity, so it's more a...

I'm sure Epos speakers would sound great, but they'd be oversized for a desktop. I need something no bigger than say around 20x20x30cm. It's more a question of how much if any a separates system with the Nait would be over a pair of active monitors.

I need a small light desk system, as I'm moving around a lot. Active monitors are an obvious choice - Fostex PM0.4d, Yamaha HS5, or Adam F5 etc - but I also have a Nait 2 sitting unused in the UK. Has anyone directly compared any of these active monitors against a separates system like a Nait...

Me too. My writing got totally incomprehensible. Even to me. So I started from scratch a couple of years ago, mainly with this guy http://briem.net/ Great fun, and revelatory using a proper hand tool again.

Faber Castell TK 9400 2mm clutch pencil and a Dahle 301 sharpener

I've just been playing with an earlier version - the Gibson Robot on an SG. The newer version is allegedly better, but the earlier is seriously rubbish. Imagine having a very irritating and very slow computer attached to your guitar... It often just gives up half way through a new tuning, or...

Won't be able to make it, sorry, but raise a glass to the big fella from me.

Very sad indeed to hear this news - like anyone else who's met him, I have many fond memories of Cliff holding court with an unfeasible array of cameras in the Market Porter.

I’m after a new tripod, probably either a Sirui ET-1004 or TX-1004 – the main difference being between twist and snap fittings. I’m used to snap fittings on my toy Manfrotto tripod, and had a bad experience with twist legs on a horrible Velbon tripod – I felt like I was getting RSI from...

How accurate is the framing on the X100? I'm assuming the optical viewfinder looks and functions like a regular rangefinder (ie a bit hit-and-miss) - but does the EVF have a 100% view and accurate framelines?

I now have a Die Linke MP hoorah.