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So the other day I got yet another call from my cellphone provider. I run a debit order for R100 of airtime and data per month that more than meets my needs. I work at home nowadays and I have 50 Mbps fibre. Little need for any stinking mobile data. New phone? Meh. My ancient Samsung A9 is just...

There is a thread for great songs on YouTube, but there are no songs in the classical world. They are called pieces. Let's share our favorites. Here is mine. There are others that I will get to, but this one is my absolute favorite. It has seen over eighteen million views. At least a hundred of...

It is kind of surprising that no one has not thought of this before. This forum is about music but nobody has compiled a list of songs that relates to what we are going through. Which songs do you think really speaks to you? I can think of a few. Some of them require a dark sense of humor to...

I am currently shopping for a nice used digital camera on the interwebs. My trusty DSLR packed up a few weeks ago. Like Humpty Dumpty, it is broken beyond repair.  With our severely depreciated undervalued currency being what it is, a brand new one is out of reach. I could scrape together the...

I wonder what that R80K system consists of.  :thinking:

No, it is not a digitally manipulated image. The platter really does spin in mid air. I don't know about flutter but the wow is off the scale. :faint: It works with magnetic levitation, just like high speed trains: You can get one for only $880...

Preparing the TV. Please try again later...  :please: That is what my Samsung not-so-smart TV tells me every time I switch it on and try to open the web browser or YouTube app. What it means is something like this: please wait while we phone home to see if there are any new rubbish apps or icons...

After 19 years of faithful service, our Panasonic Genius went out with a bang. Literally. When the start button was pressed, there was a flash and a bang of sorts inside and the power tripped. When we restored the power, it would no longer turn on. The fancy display stays blank, meaning that is...

Hi everyone, I have a weird thing with a trip switch just tripping for no apparent reason. Being an enterprising chap (not to mention cheap) I started thinking. The only thing that the electrician has that I don't have is a fancy meter that is called a Megger. Besides knowledge and training, I...

My daughter's cellphone contract is up for renewal. She is with the big red company and she has a Blackberry. Nice phone, the BMW of cell phones. Which means they break a lot and after the second or third one you have had enough of the brand. So an Android phone was on the cards. I had a budget...

I have often marvelled at the long drawn out note in the middle of Parisienne Walkways. On some live versions the late great Gary Moore held it for 25 seconds! Some would say that it was just being windgat but what do they know? Now I can't play any instrument or even read sheet music but I know...

We decided to take in the Liggiefees at the Jakaranda Children's Home (East Lynne, Pretoria) tonight. They decorate the whole place with Christmas lights. The entrance fee is ridiculously cheap and there is a concert as well. While the Christmas lights is not really my thing, any live music...

Few will disagree when I say that we live in desperate times. About the only good thing that can be said about 2014 is that it is nearly over. Deperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. When the going gets though the tough get going, another saying goes. Where would the...

A family member had a NAD 3120 go quiet on one channel a while ago. With competent/honest repair shops not easy to find, I was chosen to volunteer to have a go. A telephonic quiz revealed that they had made sure that the one channel was indeed dead by swopping around sources etc. They also...

And this is what it looks like (more or less, picture from the web): Of course, it came attached to one of these: I have found it to be smooth and powerful. The detail is great, but emotional involvement is not quite there. As for the car - pretty much the same story.  :giggle:

We have a Kenwood Chef that is about 40 years old. My wife inherited it from her mother. It was going strong until the other day when it just wouldn't turn on anymore. According to the interwebs it may be as simple as the brushes in the motor being worn out, but I know my limitations and taking...

I received an SMS yesterday form Vodabom informing me that because it was their birthday, I would be getting a free gigabyte of data. The excitement was short-lived when I read on and discovered that this freebie was for today only. Wow. I got home late last night and did not feel like setting...

Somebody posted an add offering a famous brand class D amp. It produces serious power (500Wpc) by audiophile standards, but they are only middling when compared to pro amps.  One can get that sort of power in a brand new class D amp for about half the asking price. You will be buying from a...

Saw this on my travels along the information super highway and thought I should share it:

The most important thing in any AV system is the wall plug. If there is no stream of electrons flowing out of it, there is no music. At the present moment the fine people at Eskom does not have enough electrons to go round. To ensure that everybody in the rainbow nation can listen to music for...