The sound production on this is so bad it's good, sounds like a low- budget radio ad, done with just a cheap computer mic with no processing, and mechanically played backing with all the life compressed out of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGtqz4aZyfM

Anyone have a headphone DAC they would recommend my considering? Should be (rechargable) battery powered, have a volume control, and optical spdif input. Needs to accept 44.1k and 48k at 16 bit as minimum. For use with a laptop. USB in addition would be neat, but having spdif input avoids any possible problems with driving from non-Windows/Mac boxs as I only use Linux and RiscOS. I've found a...

Why do belt drive turntables, usually British, have noisy motors? Is it really beyond the wit of designers/manufacturers to use a quiet motor? I've just bought a Roksan Xerxes, curiosity buy, and the motor vibrates to the point that it can be felt through the plinth. Apparently (having been through forums etc) this is quite normal. It's a testimony to the design that very little of this...

I ask as I have an old cassette deck which they made that needs a belt and have not heard of them of late. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lookout for KC52 YRY It is a blue Lexus. He is a car vandal and smokes spliff while driving. He drives around Enfield Island Village every morning. http://asbcommlogicxnet.myblogtoolbar.com//exe

On 30 June, 02:41, " wrote: Just sent: Hello there, We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub. There’s something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly, and it is very annoying. It’s like trying to have a quiet pint near a

Graeme, Please email me urgently. TIA -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au

An imminent house move means the pair of Kef 104s are 'no longer required'. These are teak with black fret, and date from 1976. If I advertise these in the local rag, what sort of price should I ask? What sort of price might they go for? The veneer isn't perfect, but it isn't that bad either, but the fret is beginning to 'go'. Any pointers gratefully received.

Not really audio, but I've just fixed a not that old satellite receiver which died after being totally powered down. Two electrolytics in the power supply. Luckily easily found by the bulging. Is there a particular make that is best for SMPS use? The failed ones were branded Samxon - not one I've heard of. -- *The average person falls asleep in seven minutes *

Anyone want a big stack of Wireless World, basically the whole of the seventies? FTGH, collect from Coventry. Eiron.

Thanks for all your good work. And those articles in HFN & RR (or whatever it's called nowadays!) -- Froggy Blackadder: There's something wrong with your fiancée, sir. Melchett: Oh my God, she's not Welsh, is she?

Can anyone tell me if a Motorola XC56361 (56361, Google will NOT give results for its full name, hell knows why) the same as a Motorola XC143410GC? I'm asking because Echoaudio Layla 24/96 PCI boards are said by one of Echo's own staff to use the XC56361, and the ALSA mailing list has archived pages that support this, yet I have THREE actual Layla 24/96 PCI cards that all have the XC143410GC...

I am thinking of buying a E-MU 0202 USB 2.0 Audio Interface. Anyone got one of these running under Linux? Cheers Ian

I found a sleeve amongst my 78s with some interesting text: PATHÉ'S DISC Important Notice 1. PATHÉ'S Discs do away with the necessity of a needle! 2. PATHÉ'S Discs must be used in conjunction with Pathé's special sapphire diaphragm. 3. PATHÉ'S Discs begin from the centre. (Place the sapphire point in the first groove after the rim.)

I've just been given a broken one of these - first problem is the belt is cracked, rigid, like plastic. Never seen likes before. I've written to the manufacturer in Germany (they still make them it seems) - does anyone have a preferred supplier as an alternative? Thanks, Rob

Is it safe to store audio CDs in a loft which regularly hits 45C in the summer, or is that going to cause them to deteriorate? These are standard mass produced ones, not home written in a CD writer. -- Andrew Gabriel

Hi, I have recently started writing Linux versions of the software I use to examine or process LPCM WAV files. I am in the process of making these available for anyone who wants to be able to do similar examinations in a comparable way. The Linux softare (and RISC OS equivalents) is linked to the page at http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/software/index.html

Hi all Anyone happen to know the value of the resistor in the CR network connected in the synchronous motor feed ? Looks like brown - red - brown so 120 ohms, but it's well overheated and discoloured, with a nice burn mark right around the spiral element, right in the centre. Can't get a reading from either end to the burn point. Looks at a guess to be rated about 3 -5 watts. Anybody think...

Are they cheap enough yet? Is there a Pioneer universal player with SACD and DVD-A? What does the forum recommend? -- Eiron.

It's all gone very wrong for usenet. Here in UK we now have proportional representation but dictated by the Liberals? Who they side with results in who is put on gardening leave and who takes the CEO chair! This country is being run like a corporation, by a handfull of suited pretty boys behind the scenes? Sod the voters! Did the hobbiest Arny ever upload one of his amateur recordings of an out...