Donkey brayed: Face facts, Witless -- the Krooborg stepped in the doo-doo again, and now it's getting its comeuppance. No, Arny was actually totally correct and John Atkinson has merely introduced a red herring. That's one possibility. The other (and much more likely) one is that you're a doddering old fool who can't even remember the day of the week,

More empty braying from Donkey. Poopie trips over his filthy, greasy donkey tail. Why not perform the test yourself? Who would lsiten to ME ? besides, I can't afford to buy daft esoteric cables. Then why the $*% do you care about some reviewer's opinion of them?

Small is also beautiful. The small is the genesis of the large. It's funny that some cannot grasp this fundamental concept with single ended triode (SET) amps. We routinely build preamps and voltage multipliciton stages of triodes operating single-ended, and the diehards who with a convulsive kneejerks reject any amp without a push- pull power stage will be the last to let go of the single-ended...

The thread "What a sad excuse for a group this is... " currently has 217 messages. That is in itself an indictment of the lack of imagination in the majority of participants, who agree with the depressing sentiment but do nothing about starting a more positive thread. Furthermore, it is indicative of a deep malaise lurking like an infection that the offensive thread was started before...

You have to find radio airplay time if you’re going to be heard and we’re not just talking the local college campus. The trick is called promotion. Now that doesn’t mean you just put your press kit in an envelope with a demo and hope they take pity on you. Perhaps you call a station and they give you the standard pitch of, “Send it and if we like it we’ll put you in rotation.” After a few months...

Does anyone know much about this? Is anyone kicking up a stink yet? If they ever get round to it, I'll have umpteen useless radios (two or three in various sheds, one in every car, two attached to the hifis etc.), which is rather worse than a couple of tellys requiring adaptor boxes. I really can't see people being pleased at having to fork out for new car radios at £100 a pop. Or the pretty...

I'm appalled by the number of DC power supplies I have to build to feed the filaments of the DHTs I use (directly heated triodes), which need one supply per tube ideally. I'm using up loads of voltage regs in the process, and wondered which ones "members of the panel" favour. Typical supply is a 60VA 0-12, 0-12 transformer, then on each secondary Schottky bridge, 15,000uf cap, 12v voltage reg and...

http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordost%20VALHALLA%20Power.htm Odd that a cable like this is needed to extract the best from the old 2.5mm t&e! They could extend the ring main into the amp and save a packet......... -- Pete Cross

Can someone please name this music http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv many thanks -- Dave

HI-FI FETISHISM A psychologist's view of the lunatic fringe J. Zelinger Many of us are becoming increasingly aware of those audiophiles who show an extraordinary preoccupation with hi-fi equipment for its own sake. Contributors to as well as readers of HFN/RR have expressed

This is a second request.....thanks to everyone who has helped me so far! I am a serious buyer looking for your old dusty Nakamichi cassette deck test tapes and alignment gauges. I have a few things, but I need to round out my collection.

I recently found a very clean pair of JBL L19 speakers. These speakers look new. Before buying them, I examined the speaker surrounds thoroughly. All of them appear to be in perfect condition. I took them home and hooked them up. They sound very good, but I am hearing

I listen mainly to classical music. I have had for many years a pair of Celestion Ditton 44s driven by an equally old Cambridge P50 amp. I thought about replacing the Dittons with shelf speakers but none that I could afford gave me the open "easy" clear cound that came from the Dittons. I am now in a position to think about floor speakers with a budget of up to around £1000. Any...

Hi all, I want to add a second pair of speakers to my equipment, is an audio Denon amp, 4 channels (not an A/V receiver, just a normal home amp) with a pair of Infinity 3 way speakers. Besides the normal choices of JBL, Infinity and so, the Tangent Millenium 100 par example could be a good choice. I know there is a lot of brands where to choose but any help would be appreciated, I don't want to...

Hi Folks ....as it implies, am looking for quality "in ear monitors" here in the UK.....just the earpieces! Am told that the Westone UM2 is excellent, but what else competes with these? Thanks Kev/UK

Donkey starts off the new year with a constipated braying session. I wouldn't expect the RIAA to behave any differently though. They're a bunch of over-paid, ignorant, worthless useless IDIOTS. You should advise them to go boil their heads in a vat of acid, Poopie.

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Did you see that the Maplin Barebone PVR is now down to 49.99? Got one for an elderly neighbour and installed it. Had an HD lying around. Not a bad bit of kit for the money. It came without any instructions or paperwork of any kind - and the other one in the shop was the same. But managed to suss most of it out. -- *Keep honking...I'm reloading. Dave Plowman ...

As I switched off my 2A3 SET which had been sounding better than ever (due to a valve swap in my phono stage) just now I could hear a feint muttering in a foreign language! The warm *nostalgic* feeling and familiarity (Radio Luxembourg?) was most pleasant, but it was dick-all to to with my valves - it was coming from the little Pioneer SS amp which was/is hooked up to a pair of B&W speakers...