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  1. ron g

    That time again.

    i am in the midst of my 2nd bout of flu in around a month. both have been really very unpleasant, & have taken quite a while to get through. soon as this bout is cleared i will be 1st in line.
  2. ron g

    Do you power condition?

    i recently went for power conditioning for the 1st time. i really do think that i hear a difference, but i haven't done any sort of a / b type comparison. the difference, to my ears, is not just background noise, it affects the clarity of the audio.
  3. ron g

    Frequently Misspelled audiophile terms

    as much as i enjoy making fun of them, i do feel sorry for anyone learning english as a second language. what a mishmash - words with dual meanings, exceptions to every rule, & words that sound the same but mean different things (base / bass). (& yes i do know that there is a word that means...
  4. ron g

    RCA to 3,5mm earphone jack

    i use ugreen 3.5 to 3.5 in my car. they do break eventually, but they do have a hard life. presumably the rca to 3.5mm would be similarly decent: ugreen @ takealot
  5. ron g

    streaming software

    i am running it on a windows 10 gen 8 microserver with xeon processor & 4gb of ram, which is hopelessly underspec - i see it runs at up to 86% ram & 60 - 70% processor. so 1st step is to at least get more ram. i use an ifi zen stream, controlled via the audivarna app on either my phone or a...
  6. ron g

    The 10 most common audio formats, which one to use?

    i have some dsd files which are just horrible. very accurate & precise reflections of poor quality recordings. but if done right they can sound fantastic.
  7. ron g

    streaming software

    i came so close to giving up on the bullfrogs... i was ready to sell them & keep the vivids that i am now advertising. the bullfrogs were fantastic, but there was just a sharp tone to them that i couldn't get rid of. then a friend suggested that i download & run a trial version of audirvana. i...
  8. ron g

    Now Playing...

    couldn't resist :ROFLMAO: bad as this, rest assured that her follow up track is......... even worse.
  9. ron g

    Is it worth switching car tracker services?

    surely you have top up insurance in event that the outstanding finance is more than the insurance value? every insurer i have dealt with has asked me if i want this. modifications should also be insured - both top up & modification insurance is not very expensive & well worth it. when my wrx...
  10. ron g

    Is it worth switching car tracker services?

    subaru is one of the least stolen cars. i still had 2 stolen within 6 months. same assessor in both cases - he was really reluctant to sign off on the second one, but it was a clear cut incident. (both were raids on the complex with multiple cars stolen). no tracker in either car, which i think...
  11. ron g

    The dreaded LG TV issue

    hopefully replaced with properly functional versions, or the fault is likely to just recur?
  12. ron g

    Is it worth switching car tracker services?

    for me the tracking is simply to satisfy insurance. while i do find the behaviour score mildly interesting (i score quite high on everything except "aggressive cornering"), i think that it is an egregious intrusion of privacy. i have to wonder what would happen in event of a claim while the...
  13. ron g

    on-line scam

    also bear in mind that sars will apply a 10% upliftment factor before calculating vat, so it will effectively be 16.5%.
  14. ron g

    Joke for the day

  15. ron g

    Now Playing...

    took a quick listen through this today. i loved his "no such place" album when it came out, was kind of lukewarm om "transnormal skiperoo", & only got to this one today. great album for anyone who enjoys americana / singer/songwriter music.
  16. ron g

    FdlSys - Sad news

    horrific & shocking news indeed... what a great person he was. will really miss him..
  17. ron g

    Middle to Top range bookshelf owners

    welcome to come through to centurion to take a listen if you like. system & room are not in the achim league, but you should be able to get a sense of how they sound.
  18. ron g

    Help - Lightening Strike

    watch out for the dreaded replacement vouchers, linked to a specific shop, with a crappy, limited range of replacement items. speak nicely to the assessor. emphasis that your kit is not consumer off the shelf product, & cannot be replaced with a 5.1 system from hifi corporation, or new world...
  19. ron g

    What An Audiophile!

    it can also work the other way around. recently i was listening to some really terrible quality recordings of emmylou harris performing live in various dodgy venues. after a while i realised that they were in fact good quality recordings of poor quality audio systems in the venues. in a lot of...
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