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    Ripping CD's

    Yes, as long as you use a ripper that reads from one of the standard online databases containing this data, and as long as someone has uploaded the data for the CD before you. The databases are populated by upload from users who rip CDs, and someone, somewhere, has to take the hit of typing in...
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    DAB tuner: is it worth it?

    Any streaming device or app will be totally free from radio interference, and will (in the case of BBC iPlayer) allow you to listen to your favoured programmes when you want to listen to them, not when they are broadcast. The latter point is significant when your favoured programme is the one...
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    New Lambchop

    This is amongst a recent batch of CDs that I took delivery of for someone who's currently in foreign parts. If it hadn't been mentioned here, I would have left it in the pile, but since I'm invited to listen to any that I please, I gave it a spin. I genuinely don't get it. Can someone tell me...
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    Amusing Hi-Fi stories

    In a similar vein, former workmate had radio/cassette stolen from car, the burglars removed the Kate Bush tape from the machine and left it on the passenger seat ...
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    What are you listening to right now #54

    Transatlantic - Into the Blue, from Kaleidoscope
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    Has the sound quality of audio equipment really got any better?

    He's had his for 20 years, I'm using the original (apart from cartridge and belt changes) LP12 that I got in the mid-late 1980s. Must look out the receipt and put an exact vintage on it.
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    Rum

    FiL's favourite is/was OVD, we got a bottle of the Aldi or Lidl own-brand, and he reports it's not a kick in the pants away from the OVD, but at around 1/2 - 2/3rds the price. He drinks it with a mixer of Diet Coke or Pepsi Max. Likewise, the supermarkets have their own-brand equivalent to...
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    Mini Zap, peak idiocy?

    Has anyone tried them?
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    Crank calls

    If I spend 5 minutes leading them on and wasting their time, it's 5 mins less that they have to prey on the elderly and the vulnerable. If all young, middle-aged and non-vulnerable folk took up some of the cranks' time, and strung them along, it would all mount up, and they would have less and...
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    Crank calls

    This week's John Oliver show on HBO (Sky Atlantic via NowTV) was looking at Robocalls. Some industry estimates reckon that in a short while, around half of the calls made in the USA will be robocalls. If I don't recognise the number, it either goes to answering machine, or I pick up the handset...
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    What are you listening to right now #54

    Lone Star - BBC Sight & Sound from 1977, rebroadcast last night on 6Music's Live Hour.
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    Hybrid Digital Integrateds - any good?

    I have a Vena in the TV room, mainly used for broadcast TV and DVD/BR viewing, but occasionally pressed into service for Bluetooth streaming from mobile devices, and for music playback through DVD/BR machines. It feeds a pair of Quad 11L speakers. I like it a lot. However, it did need to go...
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    Digital Audio Players

    I have a FiiO X3, and hardly use it, going back to my iPod Classics most of the time, mainly due to the physical interface. The touch wheel on the iPod Classic is silky smooth, the one on the FiiO has a rough-and-ready, clumsily-built feel to it. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, but...
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    Should I pay an outrageous £100 parking fine issued by a private company?

    I would expect that if an attendant asked me to move without making any mention of a penalty, and I moved, then that would be the end of it. The act of asking me to move lets me know I'm in breach, so I move on. If there's to be a penalty, then surely it's behove upon the attendant to either...
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    Help my son out with his dissertation by taking a short music-related survey, please!

    Q4 badly worded; Torrenting is not a method of listening to the music, it's a method of downloading it. One needs something else to play the downloaded material. So my friends tell me.


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