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We have an old plastic bucket (well tile adhesive bucket to be precise) which all the kitchen vegetable waste, tea bags, coffee grounds etc. go in each day and one of my morning chores is doing "poo patrol" to scoop up any dog poo in the garden on my way up to the compost heap to add the...

Interesting bit of kit from a highly respected long time pfm member. As colasblue says Neil James IS Neil Jadman, I believe he was a brit who retired to America and, having been in advertising, took the username from his christian name Neil, an abbreviated version of his surname James, and the...

My wife hates it but I like "Mandy" on BBC2, I like Diane Morgan's Pythonesque sense of humour. The second of last night's 15 minute programmes was a take on Alfred Hitchcock's "the birds", including Mandy's short 2-piece suit similar to Tippi Hedren's in the original.

I believe that Naim and Avondale used both sizes (6.3 and 2.8mm) spade connectors depending on the application, ie NAP 250/135s used 6.3mm whilst NAP 180s used 2.8mm connectors, I don't have recent experience of other models. Les supplied his modules with connectors sized to what they were going...

The original AE1 stands had very sharp spikes on the bottom but those on the top were much more blunt- a bit like a Linn's radiused "point" bearing. An allen key could be used to level them up so that all 4 were in contact with the bottom of the speaker, no need for sharp points that pierce the...

I'd be more convinced if they could spell topologies correctly.

Yes it does, one of the posts linked to above contains a reference to Ivor Tiefenbrun saying he wanted to make a superior version of a TD150 he'd owned and subsequently sold some years previously. I read Barry Fox's (aka Adrian Hope's) articles in HFN back in the day and seem to recall a more...

I bought an Entre in the late 70s and used it in a Hadcock 228 arm, it was excellent. I remember it was claimed that Lentek ( the importer at the time ) had arranged "cost effective tip replacement" via Expert Stylus. A couple of reviews rated it highly and remarked on very good channel...

My wife is a kennel club assured breeder (Italian Spinone) so we always sell our puppies with the free breeders insurance (5 weeks?) that comes with the KC registration. It's underwritten by Agria. Agria provide the exact same cover at a cheaper price and we've found them very good when we've...

As cctaylor said upstream Avondale modules won't fit a boltdown 160 and even if they would they'd devalue the 160 (no I'm not Mick Parry in disguise!) so I would send it to JJ or class A for a service.

Since a music signal is alternating it's not a case of "pushing" and "pulling" on alternate conductors, both conductors "push" and "pull" equally. Think of a central heating system (poor analogy perhaps) with the flow in 22mm copper and the return in microbore pipe, the microbore pipe will...

Lucky I just bought an HX75 then (largely on your recommendation), to go with your old Obelisks I got from John 6 years ago , it's taken me that long to find one!

Thanks to Ewen1970 for the Dynavector HX75 and for arranging a suitable meeting venue last Friday. A pleasure to deal with!

There's a seller on ebay advertising a Dynavector HX1.2 in Dartmouth who also has a pair of 522 boards listed (although he calls them 552 in error). Wants £100 plus postage but might take offers...