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They look like a real bargain!
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SME prices have massively increased since it was aquired by Cadence. That is for two reasons - first they were too cheap and SME were sinking, and second they did sales from SME themselves, so tied up staff organising sales; they now only sell via a distribution channel with their margin added. It will be very interesting to see what they have planned for Garrard. They also acquire Loricraft, who apart from manufacturing 401 and 301 spares also manufactured their own Garrard-inspired 501 and 601 turntables. The 601 from Loricraft is/was UKP7557 plus shipping. Plus arm and cartridge of course http://www.garrard501.com/garrard601.html
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"Thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand an end like quills upon the fretful porpentine" That's what you need before listening
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Ah yes - that is British stoicism! Big time. It is not so surprising that the audience is largely older people though if you know that Chichester is in the middle of a section of the British South Coast where people tend to go after they retire. We regularly go to Chichester (not much more than an hour drive), and have seen some stunning plays there. Most recently to see Ian McKellern playing King Lear in the 300-seat Minerva. Going back a few years the amazing production of Hamlet in the same tiny theatre with Patrick Stewart. After Chichester, that went to the West End, then Broadway, and then made into a film. This is from the film version, and is by far the best "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy I've seen. -
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Ah - that would be birds. Just think about that when you eat an egg or have roast chicken or turkey. "What do you fancy for Sunday lunch?" "Dinosaur" -
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That is so true. I have no idea what they do when they can't get human. Over 4000 species of spider, with the Sydney Funnel Web being the most toxic spider on the planet. 140 species of snake, of which 12 can kill you. I have a friend who lives near the Great Barrier Reef. He was canoeing in a nearby river, and the canoe was attacked by freshwater crocodile trying to get his teeth into my mate. He got away with it, fortunately. Deaths by shark attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_Australia mostly by the infamous Great White. Having said that, in our three weeks in Australia (NSW and Queensland) we saw no spiders, snakes, crocs or sharks. We were bitten by various insects (including ants), and Carole was clearly bitten by a spider; her leg blistered locally, but it is healing fine now two weeks on. No idea what got her. At least there are no grizzlies in Australia! -
Yeah. It is what is called a self-selecting sample. It is the basis of the crap statistics you see on shampoo, face cream etc TV adverts "67% of 106 people report a difference in 2 weeks". Which is bollocks for two reasons. First the confidence is low. With 90% confidence and a buying public in the UK for that brand of face cream might be 500,000 is +/-12%. So all you can say is that the data is somewhere between 55% and 79% with 90% confidence. The second way it falls down is that the sample is self-selecting - it is not a true randomised test. Either they have been selected by the company, or they only include data from a subset of customers who contact them. The sample sizes are always suspiciously tiny for major billion dollar brands. Why do they not do a sample of 1000, or 10,000? They certainly have deep enough pockets. Or perhaps they know that in a real statistical randomised test with a large sample size they will get about 50%. In other words that their massively expensive product does nothing whatsoever. <rant mode = off>
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That shark was probably killed and partly eaten by another shark. The dingo is just being an opportunist. Welcome to Australia! (Which was by daughter's words while she was beating the shit out of a massive Australian-sized cockroach with a book I was reading) -
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^This -
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This has features, and some components, from the Keith Monks RCM http://www.keithmonks-rcm.co.uk/features.html -
What a rotten return from Sydney Todd. RIP El Diablo. We're just about to pick ours up from the boarding cattery where they have been staying while we were in Australia (back at 7am UK time this morning)
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Good heavens.
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Yes - cloning high ticket, high volume items is big business in China. A guy I know runs a seismic monitoring equipment company - quite a big one - and he was trying to set up a sales office in China. His agent showed him the problems in doing this by taking him to a large nondescript building. In one single room (of many) there were 200 people with racks of gear disassembling program memory, DSP algorithms, FPGA code and so forth in Western products so they could be cloned. But we're not talking anything remotely on the scale industrial-level cloning activities. This one that has ripped off the Stax amp is likely two or three people in a small facility. And they have not got product ready to ship - they are asking for pre-orders to generate some cash to keep going. Which is why a threat might stand a chance of having an effect.
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But a Cease and Desist, with reference to the Berne Convention would at least give the bastards pause for thought. And it is not a big company - it is a small outfit that is asking for pre-orders. Nip them in the bud with a legal threat - a couple of hundred dollars to Saul Goodman for a formal letter.
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Yes - indeed it was. But there is implicit copyright in a work of creation, such as an electronic design - the design does not need to be registered to be owned. And that agreement to uphold implicit copyright internationally is called the Berne Convention. One of the signatories to the Berne Convention is China. In fact it is more difficult to find a country who is not a signatory. So it is entirely possible to pursue the plagiarising assholes though international agreements that have been in place for over a century (China signed up to this is 1992). Initially to send them a Cease and Desist order.
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It is a pity that these plagiarizing assholes can't be sued. Tektronix was in a similar position but was big and ugly enough to sue. The US government did not want to pay Tektronix's prices, so the aided three companies (Hickok, Jetronic and Lavoie) in ripping off the Tek designs and selling them to the US military cheap. That ran from 1959 to 1969, although the case was not settled until 1977 https://www.leagle.com/decision/1977895552f2d3431820 . The government has to pay Tektronix many millions of dollars in direct loss plus interest.
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Happy birthday!
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I'm a rare steak guy, and have never had any gastric problems as a result. And in France I've eaten steak cooked "bleu" or blue - which means that the chef threatened the steak with the stove and then just put it on the plate. Then of course steak carpaccio, which is basically thin strips of raw sirloin lightly marinaded. Yummy -
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The link above actually loads a page which says: Rare steak 'is safe to eat' Meat can become contaminated during the butchery process Eating rare steak will not cause food poisoning if kitchen utensils used to cook it are kept clean, it is claimed. University of Nottingham scientists spiked steak samples with E.coli bacteria, then cooked them rare. The bacteria only survived where the steaks were touched by utensils that were not cleaned after being used to handle raw meat, researchers found. The study dispels the myth that eating rare steak is in itself unsafe, the Meat and Livestock Commission said. -
KG Balanced Dynahi build discussion thread
Craig Sawyers replied to Vortex's topic in Do It Yourself
How did you manage to shave it? -
CDs, vinyl are outselling digital downloads for the first time since 2011
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Bring on the vinyl! Just as well since I've spent a shed load on deck/arm/cartridge and phono stage. -
Have a spiffing day! Happy birthday!
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No for some classic British humour; Gerard Hoffnung in 1958 -
Nothing to stop you driving from Class A. Lowest distortion configuration because no crossover non-linearities. I had a Krell KSA100mk2 for many years, which sounded great, gave a hernia to lift it, and it blew up twice to the extent that flames were imminent. It burned clean through the board at one stage when 2nd breakdown killed the power transistors, which killed the drivers and the emitter loads for the drivers burnt through the board. Great fun, but I tend to like non-exciting technologies now; um like the STM-T2 clone
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