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I use 1" wide mundorf pure silver foil speaker cables , covered with flat heatsink...work beautifully except today when I fired up the system and was one channel down.. was perplexed till I saw one of my amps was also off and the speaker cable was chewed up near the banana plug. Culprit was the...

Last year I pulled the trigger on a pre owned Trinnov St2 - hifi (EU 3400 vs new price of 6700 eu) After a month of waiting and SAPO drama , it eventually came. What is a trinnov .. well its pre/dac/room correction device albeit Im only using it as a room correction device...

Zimbabwe .. looking at offers over $20...

Hans Zimmer : Blade runner 2049 film soundtrack..on tidal .. try play it loud..if you dare!!!

i love cars..been a car guy all my life and raced and dragged quite a bit..had a v8 pimp your ride workshop as a sideline and have driven big v8s in various states of tune BUT i no longer have the balls and conditioning ( had a quad bypass a year ago) to be a track or road warrior...I drive...

I think water restrictions will be the new normal in the WC for at least 3-5 years .we have a pool that we cant top up .. we use rainwater to do so right now , but are buggered in mid summer.. the pool is in poor condition and will need to be refurbished as the marbelite is flaking etc. (50k) My...

We went puppy shopping today ... picked up a brace of toy poms....my wife and daughter badgered me into taking both.... my miniature schnauzer is very concerned.....

Sad day , had to put down my Belgian shepherd Charley Almost 9 years .. he had stomach cancer and was wasting away .. hadnt eaten at all for 5 days and prior to that was vomiting up all the food... this breed is 30x more susceptible to stomach cancer. We tried everything but it was time to say...

Im biamping my spirits with a 650w Abeltec ALC1000 based class D amp Using my 500w Devialets as the amps driving the mids and tops and via its pre amp out to the 650 watter for the woofers My crossover truly splits in a HF/LF section Input sensitivity according to documanetation is 1.35 v I...

Im dumping my scooter (done 60km from new) and getting a car .. my choices are 2009 honda Jazz , 100kkm.. R100k .. same as my wifes..vtec ..cvt ..good city car 8l/100 Or replace my 2003 supercharged v8 s-type Jag (written off last year) with a 2005 model with 80k/km R150k 17l/100 all the bells...

Honda R1000 for wiper blades for a Jazz...WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Midas R250 .. but stood in line for counter for 20 mins , stood in line to pay for 15 , wrong length wiper blades..stood in line 10 mins and another 15  for payment , got home , wrong fittings and wrong blades for the Jazz ..refused...

I want to bi amp my spirits , my Devialets have a variable preamp output and the facility to adjust the pre output from 0.2v to 4v So I intend using the 500w devialets on my mids and treble and am inserting a 600w Class D amp in for the bass. Problem is level/gain matching them I assume its as...

I'm pretty much a Vivid audio fan..I have heard almost their whole range and all are impressive . The company treat customers well and are a pleasure to deal with. I'm just a happy customer - so view my ramblings in that light This is a comparison of the Giya G1's and the new G1 Spirits and...

Went to see the optometrist last week and saw that an audiologist (strauss audiology)  had set up shop nearbye so I decided to book an appointment to have my hearing tested .. just for interests sake. I think these folk are more into hearing devices etc rather than testing an OCD audiophile...

Being carless , having sunk all the proceeds of my Vettes etc into a set of G1 spirits , I have decided to get a small 150cc scooter to get me to the shops etc..no highway or major traffic driving ..merely a runaround .. perhaps 25km a week ... I have narrowed it all down to a SYM fiddle II 150...

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Waiting to be uncrated G1 Spirits ..in copper .. delivered 15 mins ago..tomorrow is the uncrating day..I can't wait.. They will be put on castors as are my G1's, as I am comparing both speakers..If I dont like the spirits they go back , if I do , my G1's go back and I cough up the boodle will be...

Its cheap and nasty looking and sounds rubbish .. a dark blob on the household hifi ethos ..luckily it will remain buried in my wifes study.. at the opposite end of the house to my music room (my wife bought it to play her records)

I have always wondered at the rapid rise of humanity .. we are not even 500 000 years old and have evolved into a species that reproduce uncontrollably and destroy each other and our host...surely that can't be the master plan? Are *we*  the aliens species we are so desperately looking for??

I am going to retire my flat bass traps and construct 12 x 2m high tube traps. similar to ASC's Im using fibreglass pipe cladding , 5cm thick and with an ID of 30cm and the same with an id of 27cm. comes in 1m length 1/2 the tube will be faced with reflective material so the tube can be used as...