Recent content by Rico

indeed, you'll be double-checking that you've not walked into the Hi-Fi room by mistake! ;)

I was going to add, yeah not generally a fan of the Grado carts, not first port of call for imaging/soundstaging; reasonable pace. Caution required - plenty of people will steer you to Ortofons; value yes, though usually a bit boring. You can go nuts getting on the upgrade treadmill on your...

Indeed, it was the work they had to do in adding IR-Remote to the NAC92/Nait 3 to produce the 'R' version that took them time (R&D prototyping) to not screw up the sound. They ended up with something that was marginally improved over the non-remote version. Contributing factors - improvements...

I seem to recall a time in the Shepherds Bush days, a Rega P9 with Lyra Lydian Beta, and a dalliance with Tablettes or Super-Tablettes in there at some point, before you rediscovered *the path* and re-admitted Kans to your life - infecting me along the way! :) "Collateral Damage"they call it...

Rico's view of MM's. Ortofon VMS20E. They were relatively cheap, a step up from the cheerful FF15XEMKII. In a low-mass arm, worked fairly well. my folks bought a P-mount arm, so their VMS20E went first onto my Yamaha P220, and then onto my Thorens TD125 MKII which I subsequently fitted a...

I had a cool compact Casio scientific. Made a suede case, busted the screen with the snap closure. D'oh! Then scored a Casio FX-990 Solar (or was it an FX-880?) when all my mates were using original FX-82. It was a slim calculator in a wallet, was very trick. Oh, one friend was using HP10C...

7100 is decent. my 'other' body is a D7000, I gave to my daughter to use. She's got 35 1.8DX and 50 1.8G, and 70-200 2.8VR, but spent a lot of her time with my 60mm micro-nikkor 2.8 on it. Couldn't get her to look at D7100/7200. But whenever she picks up any of my FF kit, D4/D4s/D810 she's...

I've not been here for ages. Here's one I knocked up yesterday morning; intersection of getting my LP12 running again, photography producing HiFi pr0n: Nikon D810 with Micro-Nikkor 105mm 2.8D, on tripod with cable release. ISO200 f18 @ 1/5sec. On Flickr. All rights reserved.

Absolutely stunning. Wow! And yes the AI NR is very good. Even their auto button is now very effective for a quick snapshot. PS: The auto masking featues under the mask button make it pretty easy to subtly bring out sky tones in an image without cooking it, and maintaining the balance. I...

sorry just saw your list. My quick comments: 35 f2.0 AF-D is ignored, excellent comact walk around. Cheap, uber-sharp with lovely colour. if you want a fullframe ultrawide zoom like your 12-24 Tokina, the Nikon 16-35 f4 VR is rather good and can be picked up cheaply. I used to have the...

D800 - avoid I would not buy a D800; it's slow and a bit clunky. I think Nikon missed the mark a bit with the D800. They seem to command silly money - maybe people hunt them for the MP alone. I don't get it. D750/D810? The D750 and D810 met my use case - compact DSLR, landscape, or car...

surprised the s%#t outa me! I also use IMS Competition baskets; though haven't gone as far as nano-tech. I like the silicone seals as they stay supple and don't go hard when cold or old.

You'll no doubt find this interesting. I installed the IMS Precision shower screen with a new silicone seal (and a thin smear of food-safe silicone grease) in January 2023. This is the first time it's been out since then, Sunday 22 Oct - call it 9 months. The only maintenance is a flush after...

I've read that the Gagguino project is the way to go for Gaggia-heads. Particularly if you don't want to take a small step to a similar but better Rancilio Silvia, yet don't want to lay down the coin for a large step and markedly better e61 HX machine or similar. HTH

F connectors (US style) are lower loss (0.5dB vs 1.5dB, from memory) than your standard british PAL connector. I used RG-6 last time I ran antenna cables, as superior to the standard RG59. RG-11 is 'better' than RG-6, though think about your cable route and the minimum bend raidus of RG-11 if...