Recent content by willy

The spring clean continues with a DacMagic 100 in silver. Boxed in very good condition (always had a protective coating of dust). Pretty certain I actually bought it on here originally. £65 including postage to UK. Willy.

Looks like the DVDs are knackered. Can't even copy across the Video_TS files to hard drive. Got enough of the DVDs across (about 50% of them) copied to keep Mrs Willy amused reminiscing about the kids when they were small to buy me time to get the camcorder and tapes out of storage and re-rip...

Had a go yesterday with a couple of dozen DVDs. About half of them failed. Strangely they all failed around the same address (well a set of addresses with 0x11f8a being a favourite). Tried a couple of the faulty discs on a different computer and got the same results. In the end I used VLC as it...

Many years ago I ripped all our old 8mm home videos to DVD. Was, at the time the most economic solution. Meant that Mrs Willy could just slap a disc in the DVD player and watch on demand. Now with the cost of hard drives much reduced I'd like to transfer them to a hard drive. I know I can in...

Sold to a pfmer here in NI. Just arranging to drop it off to him. Thanks you everyone for the interest/support. Willy.

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Starting early for a spring clean with a surplus to requirements Rega DAC-R. In pristine condition, remote still has the protective film. In original packaging. £260 including UK shipping.

My son did his online at the start of August. New one was here in less than a week. Old one, clipped, was back a couple of days later. Willy.

I've got a silver one going spare if you're interested. Same deal £80 shipped. Willy.

Passed the threads on to my son and he reckons the Amazon ones should do the trick. Can't understand why they didn't come up when either of us Googled. Amazon are usually pretty good for that. Thanks to all for all the suggestions. Willy.

My son has been looking for some fames to hang album sleeves on his walls. Couldn't find anything at a reasonable price. All seem to be in the £20+ range. I remember years ago simple wooden ones with one open side you could slip an album sleeve into and then hang on a couple of nails (other...

I have a trade account with Screwfix as I was in there so often. Normally use the Newtownabbey branch but there are several others around Belfast I've used if something wasn't in stock there. All had the same protocol of checking the card and pin. Maybe something that was peculiar to NI. Never...

Locally, pre-lockdown, they always required the purchasing card to be inserted in the machine and pin entered. Currently they only ask for surname and last four digits of the order number. Willy.

In my system, and to my ears, the most musical upgrade I've ever had done to my LP12. Willy.

One of my work laptops has an American keyboard. When a German keyboard is plugged in it behaves as if it's an American keyboard. Willy.