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Recent content by ClaraBannister

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    So...

    Obscure post of the day award, or is it me? Why am I a junior member with 2500 posts?
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    Grammar, Spelling and the Correct Utilisation of Verbiage.

    It's easy to become distracted by people being beheaded in the street, and ripped off by their estate agents, but we really need to focus on what's important. Literacy, as we used to say in California, is where it's at, man. My time on PFM has convinced me that, even on a forum frequented...
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    Your most expensive amp repair

    See, I think manufacturers should be entitled to void the warranty if people have kept equipment on 24 hours a day. It's a damn silly idea, apart from being dangerous. It would probably invalidate your fire insurance. Just another hi-fi foo idea which people have fallen for.
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    Gerontius

    To give the OP the benefit of the doubt, my own preferred version is a 2-disc HMV box set numbered SLS 987 with Sir Adrian Boult conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, and featuring the great Nicolai Gedda. However, it seems (unusually) to be the only version I have, so maybe other, more...
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    Your most expensive amp repair

    Probably one I haven't had yet.
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    Turntables comparison

    To quote the company website: "The combination of hardwood, exotic metal and Teflon for the main assembly, and sapphire for the feet guarantees a drastic reduction of the macro- and micro-vibrations that damage the original signal contained in the grooves." Exotic hardwood I could have...
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    Mick McManus R.I.P.

    Slightly off-topic, but does anybody remember when roller derby was on TV on Sunday at lunchtime? This was two teams of heavily-armoured girls on skates trying to knock each other off the track. Much better than Songs of Praise.
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    Mick McManus R.I.P.

    Don't know about athletes. I suspect their training regimes involved large quantities of beer and fish and chips. Jolly good thing too.
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    Henri Dutilleux RIP

    Jaysus, first Mick McManus and now Henri Dutilleux. They're dropping like flies. I'm not feeling too well meself.
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    New CD players vs old CD players

    Pretentious? Vous?
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    Do you buy when products are released - or after a few months

    Many desirable objects are no longer made. I'd rather be a connoisseur of them than be continually buying the latest new thing, although I'm sure the manufacturers would prefer the latter course.
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    Mick McManus R.I.P.

    Gosh, wrestling. Remember the American ballet dancing chap? Ricky Starr, I think.
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    New CD players vs old CD players

    Much nicer if it does, though.
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    New CD players vs old CD players

    Other plurals are available.
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    Turntables comparison

    Sorry, but I refuse to accept plinth as a transitive verb. And I don't think Garrard made anything to match my old Goldring GL75, with its vertical idler wheel. Swiss precision and all that. And it came with one of those Parastat things.


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