Recent content by patham

get cheap portables that you can take out, they are invaluable as DVD sources when cooped up in hotel rooms for the kids when the rains set in ( take a set of AV cables to plug into the AV inputs of the TV set). Have heard on the portable's that no matter how much money you spend, they break...

View a petrol model as an insurance policy. You pay a premium every month ( the higher fuel bills) to make sure you don't get a nasty surprise when something expensive goes (turbo, injectors, fuel pump). I have gone for turbo-diesels for the last 12 years, but I buy new or demo with less than...

My Onkyo NR609 is a great match for my Tsi 400, CS10, PSW110 sub,tannoy MX2 rears, also with the Sony S370. I am sure that the 809 will match just as well with the TSi500.

Cue "end of CSI" theme music... If you rename the file does it work ? Or was it a corrupt file.

I never considered that - but it is more than possible I suppose. Strange characters in a file-name might be OK on one operating system, but can get confused as a command or special character in another. This could cause the system to get confused.. I have had cases where a corrupt file on a...

My zim 2c. When you say the USB playback interrupts is it only the USB source that goes or does the whole head-unit go off briefly, i.e. no backlight etc. ? If the whole thing goes off, its probably the wiring external to the unit. If nothing else interrupts its a problem that's within the...

I found car sound to be a journey in itself. Start off cheap and nasty, aiming for quantity at a starting off salary ( the infamous 6x9" trap). Then the gradual realisation that maybe quality is a preffered option. My final custom system that lived in several vehicles was: Sony Head unit and...

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together. Cue A-Team music in the background....

Holy Cow you guys are good (or just anoraks). And do you perhaps know the name of the QA/QC guy who signs the little stickers at the factory for these particular ones too ? ;)

The Audionote guys were so jacked that they delivered my system to my door 1 day earlier than expected. But it was all good and I really enjoyed dealing with them.... And yes, freebies from Audionote would be welcome here. PS and hihack to Audionote, has the Onkyo wireless dongle arrived in...

My system Ed Zachary. Am loving it too.

I never got those darn TV Links to work. I gather they are also distance dependent, and splitters also reduce their available power to draw on. I ended up with Ellies remote blasters - now they do the business.

From my understanding, full surround is a fairly late invention, i.e Dolby 5.1 first release on film was Batman Returns in the early 90's. There were one or two other formats, but I thought they all came out at much the same time. I will re-research & report back..... I imagine the new sound...

For DSTV only there is no need for full 1080p, as they don't even broadcast that signal quality. My second telly is HD ready only as thats all thats needed. However, the cost differences now between them are so low that just future-proof yourself and get full HD. My second TV is a long way from...

The baby 2P also runs much cooler than the old SD-PVRs or the 4P model as they split up power source and actual decoder unit (a  bit like a laptop charger). So I have my transformer in one part of the unit, hidden away nicely, the the unit itself. It sits on top of my blu-ray player, with total...