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Hi James, my ex company used CPC for cables, etc. I always found them to give a quick service and competitively priced.

https://cpcireland.farnell.com/

I'm pretty sure the first couple of times we used them I just paid by card without opening an account.

I finally bit the bullet and got a subscription to Tidal. As Fran noted with qobuz, Tidal offer various versions of the same album, remixes, Master quality, etc. I generally listen via my phone and headphones out walking or through the car stereo. At home I use a laptop with an Arcam RDac, and find ...

Hi Fran, I watched it on Netflix a month or so ago.

I watched that a while ago and thought it was very good. The late Storm comes across as not being a particularly nice person but maybe that's what it takes. Part of the pleasure of buying an lp, with a sleeve designed by Hipgnosis, when I was teenager was going over the cover again and again on the ...

Great to see the forum continuing and kudos to Fran and Hudo for keeping it going. Like a lot on here my drop ins have fallen off dramatically over the last few years, not because I've become indifferent or uninterested, more that I just got out of the habit, so I'll make a more determined effort to...

Soldering speakers can be tricky. I had a pair of Tangent TM1's years ago which blew one of the Kef mid/bass units. I ordered a replacement from Peter Dand, (remember him?) and, like the idiot that I am, decided to upgrade the wiring from the crossover to the speakers in each cabinet, and to solder ...

That looks interesting. I wonder what equipment they use and how they tailor the sound depending on the number of people there. Let us know your opinion about it.

Can you put my name against the Nice, Quatermass, Pavlov's Dog and Gong? Always curious about these bands.

Thanks for all the advice and sorry about the slow reply, I was away last week. Anyway, the advice opened up new avenues of investigation and shed some light on what's doable on both a practical and domestically acceptable level and what isn't. The two things that I tried were 1) Spikes and coins - ...

Cyndale wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 8:28 pm I definitely think the loudspeakers need something behind them to get them to sing. It's a pity you don't have a wall that they could sit in front of and then you can 'tune' the speakers in the room.

That's my thinking too, but if Ivor's idea works I owe him a bottle of wine.