Grahame

It sizzles!

Oh cock. A TV Concorde is no more. Actions have consequences, and the law is the law. In hindsight could this have been avoided with on site catering / better contingency planning? perhaps. We may never know. Anyway. In this clip, James wears a hat.

Likewise. I feel old.

You'd have thought they'd have improved the playlist by now.

And Windows 95 will be 20 on August 24, and the Rio Karma would be 12 .... progress ...

I had two different kinds of bacon today, because: reasons. Can it really be artisan bacon if they don't give the pigs name?

I stand corrected and forewarned

Ric, Looks like that's a mk one Abes of main does mk i new for $346 http://www.abesofmaine.com/item.do?item=SNDSCRX100 mk ii = $475 http://www.abesofmaine.com/item.do?item=SNDSCRX100M2B&id=SNDSCRX100M2B&l=SITECHAMP&kbid=Sony%2520Cybershot%2520Dscrx100%2520Ii mk iii = $798 on amazon

+1 on the RX100 MKii (check out the exif data on my obviously shallow DOF shots) Isn't it about time for Jeff to upgrade? ( )

Any reason given for the absence of Yorkshire Pud(dings)?

Seriously though, this is the classic gain staging issue, where you want a global optima wrt. to sound quality / what you end up listening to. As birgir states, turning the BHSE to max takes it out the loop, but makes it a fixed gain device. At very low pot settings you may have channel imbalance / tracking issues, so you should avoid that range if it is an issue. If you have a digital system with a volume remote that operates in the digital domain, the induced (LSB) quantization error, is normally below the noise floor / effective resolution of the dac, so although digital volumes may introduce theoretical errors, in practice, real world issues dominate, so it may be ignored (or reasoned away if you suffer from audiophilia nervosa) Ideally you'd want the minimum number of components in the chain (that makes sense), operating at their best. This situation is similar to when the squeezebox / transporter owners wanted to directly drive power amps using the digital volume control with no pre amp. short answer, yes, but due to potential software failure modes / user error, you'd want some fixed attenuation in the chain, to limit output when volume was (inadvertently) set to max. (or as they state *If you remove the preamp and fail to ensure line level is properly matched to amplifier input sensitivity, you may harm your speakers, or ears, or you may get poor performance from your system.*) This wiki link collects the wisdom / recommendations. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Connecting_directly_to_a_power_amplifier Think of the BHSE as the power amp in your set up I had issues with preamp /gain staging issues with the PC / Headphones / Quad Actives set up, but all my knobs are within reach

Can't you get your gentleman's gentleman to adjust your volume? "As you wish, sir" #firstworldsolutions.

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Urban foxes are well known in the UK http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24563919

Lamb shank, mashed sweet potatoes, token green things

or read this

https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarksonnow has over a million signatures ... (less than a quarter of the audience in the uk. glass half full / half empty ) Time to bring out the big guns ...

Happy Birthday Al, Hope you and your beard have a good one.

Another singular character is no more. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/arts/music/daevid-allen-guitarist-and-leader-of-gong-and-soft-machine-dies-at-77.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daevid_Allen

It's almost like you hate Brent Edit: and you missed the bacon (in the biscuits, or elsewhere) What did you need to measure the surface temperature of?

Q: Why do you have six monitors, Terry? A: Because there isn't space for eight. Like the man, makes perfect sense. HIs name will live on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/11474455/Terry-Pratchett-will-live-on-in-the-clacks-thanks-to-fans-programming-code.html

Matching Oppo HA-2?

And in Tonight's Top Gear, James answers the door, Richard stays at home, and Jeremy tries to cook. (nice "smile" @ 0:20) Oh wait. Wonder how less busy the interwebs were as a result.

Crappy, yours, and others efforts are to be applauded and your sentiments on colorectal cancer (or was that any cancer?) are echoed. Sleep Well.