I'm about to buy my first set of hi-fi seperates - Acoustic Solutions from Argos. It will have to do as a starting point. If you buy 3 AS products you get the floorstander speakers for free but the Argos website (513/0102) has them at being 105cm high which is taller than I'd expected. Is this about normal for floorstander speakers?

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A lurker and infrequent poster here recently bought a direct-drive (??) Garrard DD75 on eBay and wasn't too impressed with it*. He sent it to me (by way of a trade) to see if I could wring a bit of half decent noise out of it, which I have done - see my 'Simple Simon' write up he http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/garrarddd75/garrarddd75.htm (My 'web audience' are simple souls like me.......

In article , Signal wrote: Returned home this evening to find my 'trusty' DVDR75 displaying the word "BLOCKED" on the display. No obvious cause for this. Tried various methods of resetting the unit but alas.. it's bolloxed. Pah!! :- The DVDR7x series does seem to suffer from really weird and annoying

Hi, Currently looking at replacing my current speaker connectors with some new banana plugs. I have been looking at the IXOS 204's and the Profigold PGA8103's. Does anyone have any opinions as to which would be the better buy or maybe someone can recommend a better plug? I dont want to spend a great deal and these two products fall within my preferred price range.

I finally got a sound card with s/p-dif optical input so I can archive all the BBC radio plays stored on my Sky+ box. These are at 48kHz but I can't find how many bits. Is anyone aware of any issues in converting this to 44.1kHz 16 bits for CD? Should I trust Goldwave to do it right? -- Eiron.

I've recently moved house, and the DRR-M30 cassette deck will no longer 'talk to' the UD-M30 CD tuner/amp. I can play/record with the system connector disconnected, and the UD-M30 set to AUX, but the remote then does not operate the DRR-M30. If I reconnect the system connector and set the UD-M30 to TAPE, the deck plays, but nothing comes through, even though the remote will operate the deck.

Hi All, I got a Teac Universal DV-10D recently. I am seeing a lockup issue with running CD-R. At some random point after playing for a few minutes, the player locks up. My initial impressions are that the player is heating up the media too much and the media startes exhibiting soft errors. When the media becomes too hot, the players stops working. o Has any one faced similar problems with other...

Hi, I have a loan of my cousin's Pioneer PDR-609 CD burner (he is travelling). He said to me once that there is a way of erasing CD-R's before you finalize them. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it?

apologies if this isn't the right newsgroup to ask... someone's given me a dvd of a series of lectures (it's just audio not video). i've no idea what to play it on to listen to it. i've looked at the amazon and currys websites but there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a portable audio dvd player. am i correct in thinking that? i don't want to buy a dvd player which

It's great fun to peel off the layers of disc noise from a shellac pressing and find the detail in the music which lays beneath. From the teachest of antique audio goodies comes an Ellington classic: "Rockin' in Rhythm" The recording dates from 1930 The track is quite long 3m10s20fr I am sorry that I cannot host this in .wav format, I just

Today's weather in the UK = 31C/Strong Sunshine http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ In, er, Corfu (for some reason? :-) = 28C/Partially Cloudy (was 'Overcast')! http://www.corfunet.com/weather/index.php ;-)

Ok people, currently running with: Arcam Black Box 50 DAC Technics SU-VX600 amplifier Mordaunt Short Avant 908 speakers Chord Company Cobra II interconnect Audio Innovations silver bi-wire speaker cable The DAC is currently fed by a Technics SL-PG590 acting as CD transport

Further to earlier discussion on UKRA I have been thinking about the use of large capsule condensers for cymbals, and why despite the far greater risk of a large mic being hit by a drum stick, that they are the microphone of choice for most. A Swedish engineer with whom I have worked often, thought that a Neumann87 has a lot more "subtlety" than a small capsule mic such as an 84 It certainly has...

Hi, I want to make a hi-fi rack to put my hi-fi components on. Can I find a design on the internet for such a rack. I need dimensions, materials to be used etc. Thanks, Vasilis

Following some recent discussions about active loudspeaker crossover filters and biamping I have been investigating this general topic. All being well I hope soon to put onto the 'Audio Misc' site a set of pages that should help people to design/modify active crossover networks and understand how they work. I'm now looking at the actual effects of these on musical waveforms. The question I'd...

Swim is plotting a new kitchen (imminent) and is talking about an 'Induction Hob' (wotever TF that is)...!!! What issues/ramifications will this have for me (and me valves - phono stages in particular) in respect of RFI and apparently needing some sodding gizmo fitted to the mains...??? (See also other post re heat - anybody want to buy a truckload of valve kit...??? :-)

How to get DTS or Dolby sound out of my TV ?? Ive got one of those Dvd/Stereo Combo systems with Speakers connection. 5.1 the system supports DTS and Dolby. I dont want to buy another set of speakers so i want to runt he TV though the same speakers and my Combo system.

OK, I'm reacting to this extract from an email received this morning: "he has measured a few SET amps now, and they all seem to exhibit the same shortcomings - poor damping factor, and flabby LF. 'X' sent me a pic of a 100Hz sine wave. It looked more like the skyline of the Andes!!" My contention is that if components are well-matched *by ear* the 'paperwork and measurements' can largely...

Hi All, Is there a CD recorder for the 300 reference series MK2 ? I have heard mention of it, but can not see it on any of the mainstream websites, and could not find an email address for Teac to get a direct answer from the manufacturers.I found adverts for a minidisk recorder for the older 300 series, but even that seems to have disapeared from the MK2 models. If there is one I am...