Hi, I'm trying to source a cabinet for my HiFi/AV kit. It needs to be able to house my Pioneer AV amp (420mm Wide x 200mm High x 460mm Deep) plus 4 smallet pieces of equipment. All 5 pieces of kit must go inside the unit and it must have locking glass doors (so infra red's will work) and sides - to keep little fingers out. Stands Unique (www.standsunique.com) used to do one as part of their

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A subjective test by experts of the SNA inner circle A while ago someone suggested that a set of Turkish made interconnects and speaker cables be tested and assessed by a group of know-it-alls on SNA (Stereo Net Australia). They (the SNA overlords) thought about it for a while to try and decide who was proficient and suitably qualified (who were the suck holes actually?) and who wasn't to...

For those who build equipment in small batches...what system do you use for front panel signwriting ? I need something better than "letter by letter" press-on dry transfer systems. Is there a system where you can print direct from PC onto some sort of special sheet and then transfer results to a front panel ? Thanks.

In article ..com, scribeth thus On Feb 14, 11:08*am, tony sayer wrote: So what are you comparing them to then the original signal?.. You can rip a CD perfectly using a PC CD-ROM drive and the right software, which gives you an error-free wav copy of the signal. So you reckon you'd be...

I recently purchased some S3TLM Ribbon kits from IPL Acoustics and have posted a review of my experience he http://sites.google.com/site/stevesstuffproject/Home Might be of interest to anyone considering the DIY approach to speakers.

Hi, I was just wondering, does anyone know anything about the system installed in Theatres and cinemas to give audio description?I'm not interested in the DVD interface and all that stuff. I'd like to know how the transmission is done. I assume its analogue of some sort, judging by the way the noise level can vary if you move. The reason I'm interested is that a user of these is looking for...

Ummm, as the title says. If you've only read the Gramophone in the last few years you might be pleasantly surprised how good it used to be. Scanned text of the articles are open to all, but you have to register to get the PDF facsimile. Here's a taste from 1977 " The Musicassette: Boon or Monster" by John Borwick. http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/August%201977/98/768245 Roger Thorpe

Hi All. Might not be the right place to ask, but I need a pair of speaker grilles for my Mission 702e's. Any online or mail order places that anyone can recommend ? Thanks, Paul.

Without starting a debate about whether HD audio is really needed, would anyone here like to attempt a prediction of the likely sound carrier of the future? I'm not very good at this myself (I said that CDs would never catch on) and backed the SACD horse a few years ago. I can see that Dolby True HD and DTS HD are likely candidates for physical media, however the copy-proof characteristics...

Hello everyone, Bill Wright here. Please have the patience to read this! You could really help us achieve something worthwhile.

I was interested in how heavily modulated vinyl could be, so I popped an old record (Long Hot Summer Night, Jimi Hendrix, Track Records 1968) under the microscope for a look. And what did I find? Two adjacent grooves clearly broken into each other: http://81.174.169.10/odds/grooves.jpg Was this a really common back then, or is this kind of thing a rarity? d

You people have given me great advice before (grovel, grovel) so here I am asking for some more. I've made PCBs before but always as one-off projects using transfers and etch resist pens. But I need to produce 50-60 now ! My requirements are very modest...single sided, a couple of 14 pin DILs and a few other components, size around 50mm x 100mm. Does anybody know of a reasonably priced...

To some extent, I don't mind adverts on here, but adverts for adverts on ebay tend to irk me as it means launching a browser then finding the data etc. I'd have thought if people were going to post an ad, the least they could do is say something about it, and then nobody would waste their time going to ebay if half the thing is missing or its broken. Of course there may well be a charter...

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5 x classical 3 x James Last Orchestra (yeah!) 1 x Bert Kaempfert (yeah!, again) 1 x Cyril Stapleton Orchestra 1 x The Muppet Show (I'd love to hear that) They're in Cardiff, and can be posted. If your bachelor pad's soundtrack needs a little bolstering, these will do the trick.

My house is snuggling in a nice 5-inch north London blanket of snow and outside, traffic noise has decreased to the level it normally is at night. The atmopheric pressure and the supplied heating must be doing something to the sound transmission qualities of air. My hi-fi sounds wonderful.... :-) --

Hi, many years ago I remember being impressed by some speakers that looked a bit like footballs. The ones I saw were made by Toshiba as I recall, but were out of my price range. They had literally speakers mounted in a multi sided solid a bit like a dodecahedron, and covered up with some kind of foam. You could hang them from the ceiling or on a stand. Very heavy for their size. The mounting...

Heads up on an interesting bit of software, if ye have a huge library of compressed music on a computer (iTunes or not). http://www.musicip.com/ Their aim is to identify music tracks acoustically and find similar patterns that enable intelligent sequencing, like Apple iTunes Genius and (*sniffle* gone from UK) Pandora - except the whole collection used is that of your stored media, be it...