Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 17th 18, 08:24 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Do speakers deteriorate with age?
I was speaking relatively so I am sure there are many ways to destroy
speakers. Apparently ammonia fumes do them no good but who lives in a cloud
of ammonia?
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
August 18th 17, 02:51 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Ouch who turned it up?
Many of the stations are bbc local ones though, like surrey, London, three
counties, Essex etc.
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 9th 17, 05:32 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 52
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Noise Shaping for high rez files and streams
In the very start of digital some recordings looked fantastic on specs but
sounded crap, seeming like they had some kind of noise gate on them. then
came dither, which made recordings sound right...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 20th 16, 11:13 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 19
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Rogers Cadet II
Dunno but I don't think there was any connection to Roy rogers.
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 12th 16, 02:24 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Germanium Hi-Fi amp ??
Sounds about right. I assume you knew about the dodgy ram chips in the
Spectrum which had half the chip duff, and a link in the pcb to select the
working half only in each case.
Brian
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 12th 16, 02:21 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 22
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Germanium Hi-Fi amp ??
Yes and his slide tuner scale was basically the same issue only in a slider
not a rotating pot.
If you replaced that with a multiturn as i did once to see if it worked, it
was miles better, but...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
June 5th 16, 03:38 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 4
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Connoisseur BD1 turntable
Bloomin eck, that message is pretty old innit.
I'd imagine it might be possible to get a motor reconditioned somewhere. I
never did reckon the turntable too much rumble, but it was cheap for the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 27th 16, 11:58 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 51
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Armstrong 600 era
They were surely called Trio then.
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 21st 16, 10:48 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Anyone want a load of..
High speed mono cassette copiers?
We have a lot to dump and it seems a shame to do this, but nobody seems to
need to copy audio cassettes any more.
These are Sony ones several slaves and a master...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 14th 16, 08:57 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 9
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old hi fi gear
No its not, there are three. Technics very large one used by talking
newspaper, Sharp budget deck, and I also have a Denon here with three heads
that seems to always be suffering from speed issues...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 24th 16, 09:39 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Couple of cd queries, model numbers later
No I'm darn sorf, in surrey.
I think in the past it was sometimes an adjustment on the pcb, but there
seem to be none on this unit. I suppose another machine might in the end be
the answer. the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 10th 16, 11:21 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
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Level compression on the radio
Hmm, have you listened to the local bbc stations on the internet? the levels
are all over the place and most I think are still in mono.
I remember reading about the idea of local compression indeed...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 10th 16, 11:17 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
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Level compression on the radio
A few years ago, Radio two had a series of old in concerts from the 70s and
80s. I had these recorded at the time on a fairly early dbx equipped
cassette deck on 120 tapes by tdk.
The repeats...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 9th 16, 08:41 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 12
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Level compression on the radio
Well, there is sensible compression and there is ridiculously high
compression, and badly set up compression, Is talk sport listening?]
Radio 1 and many other pop orientated stations use a form of...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 6th 16, 09:55 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 15
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Happy Christmas
And a less wet new year...
Brian
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 25th 15, 08:25 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 37
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MOSFET amp - thump at switch on.
I'm sure, but the fact is in the end I still cannot do it myself any more,
so it will probably remain like this until IIpop my cloggs or a more
terminal fault occurswhen it will be decision time as...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 23rd 15, 10:18 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 37
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MOSFET amp - thump at switch on.
Yes but that would be major surgery of an old unit, and I cannot do this
myself now so I'll just patch it up. Incidentally I've just had similar
issues on an aerial attenuator switching relay on...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 22nd 15, 08:25 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 37
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MOSFET amp - thump at switch on.
I have a denon here with a little relay like this, the problem seems to be
that relays get dirty, or wear aas this one has and e distortion varies and
the levels wobble when its time to take the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 17th 15, 04:06 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 17
Views: 160
KEF T15
Are kent Engineering Foundary still in business?
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 17th 15, 04:05 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 197
Beringer sound card on usb issue
No the issue is that the screenreader I'm using is ok on the internal sound
card but is far below any usable level on the device and this goes for
system sounds as well.
It seems to me that there...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 17th 15, 09:59 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
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Beringer sound card on usb issue
OK I'll look later on. The problem seems to be the last stage as nothing
ever seems to come up if I do what the other message in this thread says.
Remember that what may seem to be right in the...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 17th 15, 09:56 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
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Beringer sound card on usb issue
Well that is because you can see it. I have done exactly that and can find
nothing like what you suggest at all. Is it in some kind of pop up or flash
object?
Brian
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 16th 15, 08:39 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 197
Beringer sound card on usb issue
Well it says that they now require y you to download the software from the
web site. The trouble is, I've just spent a good half hour over there going
around in circles. No sign of a nice obvious ...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 16th 15, 12:17 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 197
Beringer sound card on usb issue
I'll need the 7 ones too as I have a machine running that. Would you not
think it might prompt for an installation for new hardware?
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 16th 15, 12:15 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 18
Views: 197
Beringer sound card on usb issue
This seems to have the number 21 in its name, so I guess I'll have to go to
the site to get the drivers then, otherwise I guess its just fixed at
whatever its default is.
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