Recent content by darkstarcrashes

Return to factory wasn't really an option!

Went to the Bridgewater Hall last night to hear Beethoven's 2nd symphony and Rossini's Stabat Mater played by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder. Wonderful performances, and the chorus and soloists were excellent, but why do they have to put English surtitles on a hanging glorified...

Thanks. I don't need a phono stage but for domestic harmony a headphone socket wouldn't come amiss. When I'm back on my feet I'll start auditioning various amps, currently quite interested in the Exposure 3510 integrated but there are plenty around this price point so I'll try to avoid making...

Still very happy with the Caspian M2 CD player. No progress yet on a new amp - derailed by house move, recent treatment for prostate cancer, and general procrastination.

Many thanks!

Foot and mouth?

ECM has a small range of classical music (the label mostly focuses on jazz), and in my experience they're all impeccably recorded. Whether you like the music or not is, of course, a different matter!

Was it a straightforward thing to do?

FWIW the Ruark streaming radios allow you to allocate BBC Internet radio stations to the preset buttons on their remotes. I currently have Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 6 allocated thusly. Where I live (Pennine valley in W. Yorkshire) there's only very poor access to FM or DAB stations so...

They're the original non-Freedoms. Thanks.

How interesting that a thread that started as a seemingly technical problem turns out now to be all about the shit that life throws at you! Here's hoping that the OP makes a speedy recovery to good hearing.

I believe that to replace the tweeter you have to send the baseplate assembly to Wilmslow Audio who install a new tweeter and then send the whole thing back to you.

I've had my Mission 752 speakers from new in 1995. Am wondering whether there'd be any appreciable sonic benefit from replacing the crossover capacitors and/or swapping the tweeters with new ones from Wilmslow Audio. Any thoughts/opinions welcomed. Thanks. (for context, I'm currently using a...