Gentlemen, I replaced the driving belt of my trusted old Thorens TD166 this week and today I find the CD-player has become so upset by this it refuses to play or even acknowledge the existence of the CDs I feed it. The CD player is a Cambridge Audio thing (everything important inside is labeled Sony) about five years old (the Thorens is 25 years old).

It occurred to me when fitting some new car speakers that a dual concentric design would be ideal for this use. But they all seem to have tweeters just stuck on the front. Any reason why this design has fallen out of favour? -- *Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into...

Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to connect in this way? I have a digital sound output on my freeview box that I would like to record from.

Eeyore wrote: Andre Jute wrote: Eeyore wrote: Andre Jute wrote : I have never been as impressed with ultra-low silicon- level Rout as you are

Hi! I wondered if anyone can advise? I would like to record Radio 3 broadcasts that I can't listen to at the time onto SD card(s) and then load them up onto my PC and play the programme at a more convenient time. Would something like the Pure PocketDAB 2000 Digital Radio be a practical choice to do this?

Mildly OT as the wiring is for car audio, but I suspect I might get a bit more sense here. I'm going to be fitting some speakers, a subwoofer and an amplifier to my car. The subwoofer is there due to the near impossibility of getting deep bass out of the ordinary speaker fittings present, not to test the fixings of the interior trim. The recieved wisdom is to run all your phono cables...

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I just received a new CD today, Stacey Kent's "Breakfast on the Morning Tram" . It's her first since signing to Blue Note. I was impressed by the sound quality, and apparent lack of compression. Ripping one track and analysing it, normalisation is a few samples below 0dBFS, with no sign of waveform clipping. Congratulations to Blue Note records and to Curtis Schwartz who recorded, mixed and...

I am looking for an good (3.5mm jack to socket) extension lead for my headphones. All I have come up with so far is the cheapo couple of quid ones or this Belkin one. http://catalog.belkin.com/PureAV_detail.process?Product_Id=172258 But after reading a few reviews on it people seem to be saying its not up to much. Can anybody help me out, where can I find a fairly decent extension lead? Gold...

Ecclesiastes admonishes us to praise famous men, by which the translators of the King James version meant not "celebrity" trash on telly but useful achievers. One of the greatest of these in electronics was Herbert Otto Schmitt. Among his other inventions which we use daily are the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, the chopper-stabilized amplifier, and the Schmitt trigger. Schmitt...

Just been given a Sherwood R525 tuner with built in amplifier. It works absolutely brilliantly. It has been stored in a loft for about 3 years. Anyone any thoughts as to how good this item is. I could do with a manual..... James

Ecclesiastes admonishes us to praise famous men, by which the translators of the King James version meant not "celebrity" trash on telly but useful achievers. One of the greatest of these in electronics was Herbert Otto Schmitt. Among his other inventions which we use daily are the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, the chopper-stabilized amplifier, and the Schmitt trigger. Schmitt...

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:14:06 -0800 (PST), EADGBE wrote: 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 am looking for any items that were used to service Nakamichi cassette decks, particularly the alignment devices and jigs.

This years I want to be the first to wish everyone a Merry Chistmas, so we can establish the correct spelling right at the outset. So, hoping to reach the RATs and UKRAnians in Kirimati, where it is already 4.10pm on Monday (and 3.10pm Monday for tubies in New Zealand), before they leave the office for happy hour, and rolling around the world westwards from there, Merry Christmas! Andre Jute

I am building a tube based mic pre into a 19inch rack case which is painted black. I want to label the inputs, outputs and controls. What options are open to a hobbyist? Cheers Ian

Hi there ... I am having a bit a bit of a problem recording digital audio with my Soundblaster Audigy Platinum 2. I connect the digital co-ax output from either a CD player or DVD player to

I'm tempted by one of these, as I've got a 300 Gb HHD kicking about, doing nowt atm: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221276&C=Maplin&U=SearchTop&T=pvr&doy=10m11 Anybody got one or know if they're any good?

You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp, or a part like a pair of WE 300b? What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

The 6AU6 based mic pre I am designing has an interesting quirk. I am testing various valves for low noise with the first stage input grid grounded. As expected different valves exhibit different noise levels and susceptibility to hum. To eliminate hum from the readings my millivoltmeter has an LF cut switch. When this filter is used I noticed a small but regular variation in the indicated...

I have a 1977 Stiff record of The Damned on ebay, with erratum sticker on, that finishes at 15 minutes to Midnight, if anybody is interested. http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZblubbly1QQhtZ-1 Thanks, coralreef