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Untangled, sorted and cable tied, and filed away hundreds of cables tangled up in boxes and drawers. Found my Dreamcast A/V cable in the process. Did a similar thing with several boxes full of unfiled paper. Used many staples, punched many holes. Need more ring binders.

N64 games are best when played on PJ64 with the graphics turned up, using usb adapters. I've still got a whole crate full of N64 kit and it doesn't get used. Looks and feels better on the PC. Gods I love the N64.

Theres a Soundlab Millenium M3, 5 years old (been in storage for 3) going for less than the three grand, and it's only 15 miles or so away. (No tedious journey to England unlike most Quads...) Anyone have personal experience of a Soundlab? They've always seemed to have moved actively further in terms of design than Quads since the -63. - Rang up the shop. Going to go listen to them soon. That is if they don't sell before then of course. -

I'd thought about that, but it seems (and again, I am faced with the limitation of what I have to read, rather than to listen to) that the 988, effectively is the -63. Just with shinier paintwork. Additionally, the room, I suspect, will actually be of a sufficiently large volume that a single pair of -63/989/2805 might have real difficulties in pushing air like a cone of the same price level would. Whereas x2 stack of -57 would push more air (helping to overcome their x1 limitations) but without the inherant physical design benefits of the concentric delay line. Additionally. It is cheaper to buy a pair of ESL-63 (even in bad nick) and have them brought up to proper condition, than it is to buy a pair of the 988 or the 2805. You see the dialemma. Reliability and such related factors was in large part behind my consideration of the cousin speakers in the Precide range. But if a Quad is properly refurished and then appripriately driven, it should, all things being equal, do fine for just as long.

I also much lolled (loled? lol'd loll-ed?) at the streetfighter bit. Everythign else was the build to that.

Nelson Pass Kleinhorn & El-Pipeo Transmission Line Woofers & Ribbon Supertweeters: DIY Electrostatics (Clearly ESL-57 inspired): ER-Audio Acorn Electrostatics:

Waffling context begins... My parents house has two front rooms, one of which has been since year dot the living room, and has the television and sofas and is generally where people sit and veg out or chat or read the paper or whatever. The other front room has been known since I was a little kiddie as "the music room". It wasn't called this because mum played cello in there, or because there's a piano, but because it is where my dad installed his hi-fi in the mid/late 80s. (Mission DAD7000, Quad 34/405-2, Monitor Audio speakers) The DAD7000 is long dead (could only be a good thing ,some would say, replaced since then with an Arcam Alpha 7) as are the speakers. For perhaps 8 years the room has had Bose Acoustimass 5 series III speakers in their place, and indeed, that probably coincides with the time when the room was no longer used for anything whatsoever except for the (very occasional) entertainment of guests, pre-dinner, and of couse, the 4 weeks or so a year when the Christmas Tree goes into the room. At the minute the rig is: Turntable / Arcam or Laptop into DAS-R1 -> NAD C352 or Quad 34/405-2-> Quad 21L or Bose Acoustimass. (This will get consolidated down) Along with a lot of other shuffling that has been going on in the house over the last 6 weeks of so (rooms being repainted, new bookshelves, that kind of crap) dad has now, after deliberation, decided that he wants the room to stop being as he put it "a dead room" or as I put it "a garage" (large items and multiple items of crap were left in there, gathering dust, just to get them out of the way, and my brother has his drum kit in there). He wants it converted over to (much to my joy, I have to say) a proper hi-fi room. It's a large room with a quite high ceiling (10 feet high at least, I dont know the length and width atm), and the ancient and crappy couches in it will be getting scrapped. And he has in effect, given me the role of gaffer for converting it over to something lovely for the primary purpose of housing a speaker rig. He is heavily interested with the idea of an electrostatic speaker setup. I have given him the layman rundown on the Quad 57 and 63 (and on the Precide Kithara, and on the the Nelson Pass J-Low & El-Pipeo combo [Klienhorns would be a step too far ]). Tragically for the posting of JPEGs on Head-Case, he isn't inclined towards the Nelson Pass option. I'm going to be updating his 34/405-2 to modern spec (thanks, in largest part to NET-Audio) because he clearly wants to keep them, but be rid of the issues that come from them being 20 years old, and brought up to modern spec. What he doesn't know, and indeed, what I, for all of the JPEG lusting and all of the reading and understading that one can come to from such reading that one can have, is which path to go down for speakers. Frankly, I think given the sticking with the 405-2 (405-3) and his enjoyment of a bass in his sound (can you guess why he never much liked the Bose) that the ESL-63 is the better bet. Stacked -57s also seem a viable option, and I could bend him to the Kithara I'm sure. But as I say, I've heard none of the three, nor has he. And irrespective of how much reading one migh tdo over how much time, when it comes to this sort of call, when given to you in real life, it starts to mean fuck all. So [coming to the point at last after all of that contextual bullshit storytelling] what I seek is the wisdom of the input of you fine chaps. Dad has (about)

Graeme Norgate & Grant Kirkhope - Goldeneye 007

SRM-T2A eh? Looks very shibby. Maybe some kind of prototype unit for a design revision? Not seen one like it before.

I've been doing some Google searching and also on diyaudio but I can't seem to find a nice answer to which pins are connected to what on Quad 5-pin and 4-pin DIN interconnects. Anyone here know? -think ive got it now-

British =/= English.

Blackwoods is the superior gin. Hendricks is the more individual gin.

My avatar was a photo taken the day I got my SR-007. Doesn't feel like 3 years. Also, the crosshair avatar makes me feel like Colin Farrel in a phone booth.

I'm partying like it's 1999

I am not son of ambassador. My father is the former agriculture minister of Nigeria. Who is killed by his political enemies. I require your help to move out of the country US $45,600,000 which remains in his name for irrigations and fertilistion projects. I can be offer to you 15% of the funds for your help in good faith sending. Please sending me the better detales of your banking accounts so that we can complete the transaction in best faith.

You were sending all the wrong signals dude, I thought you were into it. Good thing for my diplomatic immunity.

Hippitty Burpdai Squire!

I didn't spot the Nigaz foul-up until it got pointed out.

I linked up the spec and made the critique, extremely diplomatically I thought. I had written up a new post to start a public thread with after he deleted all of the badness for business, but its saved on my laptop which isn't here. I'll post it on head-fi tomo. Frankly, It needs to be done. Ducking basic questions like that is Singlepoweresque and plain unacceptable to my sensibilities. And this may just prove an excellent oppertunity to draw a line in the sand between science and audiophool bullshit (unless the cable turns out to meet the USB spec and/or exceed it).

I would not have put it past the nutjob to fake his own death to get out of the London show.

I'll give odds of 3-1 against that it's an SR-3N OEM model.

We have a 50 foot run of the Blue Jeans long run cable, at 1080p/50 and 1080p/60 we get unacceptable signal corruption (sparklies). How difficult and expensive is this network cable solution?

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