I have seen an alarming amount of censorship on this community - I find this quite depressing. A thread I posted today questioning Mod behavior was deleted and this is far from the first time that fairly innocuous threads have been disappeared by unilateral mod action. Sadly I feel I have no...

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Liverpool 1:2 Havant and Waterlooville Am I dreaming ? Go Hawks

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Strong contender for daftest sport ever (imo of course) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7084494.stm And I thought that synchronized swimming was odd.....

Hello, recently I was involved in a rear-end accident, my fault. Since nobody was hurt and the car I rear-ended was only slightly nicked (the driver didnt pursue this with the insurance company and neither did I) the police officer attempted to find the smallest offence for the ticket. I...

Some discussions about a Boston Audio Society paper published in JAES. Blind tests of high res material played back either with or without a secondary 16/44.1 downsampling revealed that no subjects at all out of 500+ tests could detect the absence or presence of the second (degrading) stage at...

Hello all. After a minor bumpette a few weeks ago my 95 escort is no longer economically viable to fix. My garage guy says I can leave the car with him as long as I like but I think in all decency I need to get it legally disposed of sooner rather than later. I havent yet disposed of a...

Hello Chaps. We have decided we are probably going to buy a new car. This will be the first new car we have bought in the USA and we are somewhat nervous about the haggling and pricing protocols. Another thing we are concerned about is the costs that are added on to a new car, i.e which...

Hello, I am finally resolved to replacing my faithful 95 Ford Escort. I want a modest user car and my garage guy says get a Corolla as they are good cars reliability wise get decent fuel economy and are easy to work on, all of which are important parameters to me. My budget is ~ $17K so it...

Creative Labs Zen Xtra 40GB USB Hard Drive MP3 Player ----------------------------------------------------- http://cgi.ebay.com/Creative-Labs-Ze...QQcmdZViewItem last year I bought a 30GB Xtra for myself and a 40GB for the missus. I have an eBay alert when these come up for sale. Today I...

Before I give up on Vinyl I want to see if I can do something to isolate my TT. At present I have my turntable sitting on a fairly solid but non-decoupled wooden table with tubular metal legs, the option for a separate floor-based stand/table such as my old Sound Organization Table or specialist...

Well, four weeks ago I didnt have any Vinyl capability in this country, now my wallet is substantially lighter Denon DP35F with Signet MR 5.0 Basic $132.50 Denon DP30L Mk I with Shure V15 Mk III $56.88 Shure VN35E Stylus (clone) $39.95 Rotel RX303 Receiver $24.95 Phonopreamps TCC TC750...

I had been looking for a TT for a while now and had placed snipes on a few that came up , I won an Denon DP35F but I also had active snipes on others , today I realised I still had a snipe set up for a DP30L with V15 III, I did leave it quite late to cancel it and when I went in to the sniper...

As I explore the world of TTs (in the abstract sense anyway) I find myself looking at performance specs and puzzling about how these are assessed. How is rumble and especially SNR measured on a turntable, on a CD SNR is an electrical property but without a cartridge how do you measure SNR on a...

Yesterday I came home from walking the dog to find I had a flat tire. It turns out that person or persons unknown had gone through my neighbourhood and slashed the Tires on 31 cars. Well, the news folks called it slashed but in fact on mine it was a tiny hole, such as you might get from an...

Seen one of these for sale at $50 sans stylus - is it worth a gamble or is it not very good ?

I have decided I want a backup of my music files currently on CD - I figure 500gb will suffice and allow some future growth. Can anybody reccomend a reliable external hard drive - my PC is a laptop so internal drives are not an option. I have seen plenty for sale but all (so far) have had...

Best Buy have offloaded a huge bunch of old stock and customer returns JBL speakers. Many of these have made their way to eBay via a bunch called dealtree (who I have no affiliation with in case you were wondering) . I won a pair of (as new) E20s for $27 plus $18 shipping. These are immaculate...

Having just scored a pair of JBL E20s off ebay for $27 I think some form of amplification is called for. I do have an old NIKKO TRM20 but that is a modest 12wpc and I suspect I will really need a 20wpc minimum to drive the JBLs. However the amp must be shelf mounted and my shelves are pretty...

Driving back from Philly Airport my Alternator belt disappeared, fortunately I was just 2 miles from home. My garage is just 1 mile from my home and the battery is brand new. Can I risk driving the one mile, no lights or anything without the car keeling over ?

At this rate anyone who finished clean in the top 20 could be champion http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/othe...ng/6277853.stm Looks like he spoke too soon http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/othe...ng/5249116.stm

Yesterday the alternator on my 95 escort died and I had to get AAA to tow me to my local garage, after two different very kind souls had jump-started the car, well this is the city of brotherly love. This was my fourth call (Starter, Lock-out and Dead battery were my other 3) and as such the...

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/26/1/50/_pdf The study provides evidence that audible limits on some forms of jitter, they used a random jitter pattern, may actually be somewhat higher than even the Benjamin and Gannon study which indicated a threshold of about 20ns. In the study...

Having just had my first experience flying with my new toy - Zen Xtra and finding that the PX100s have almost no isolation I seek a closed solution. It doesnt have to be the last word in sound quality but it must have "decent" isolation and be easy to drive and preferably not too bulky. I...