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    Foreign payments, what is the best system?

    Hi, I'm looking for advice please. I am planning to buy very expensive hearing aids from a source in the UK. The source can supply me with these, for personal use, at a massive discount compared to local audiologist suppliers. The items will be couriered. Two questions - (1) what is the best...
  2. J

    Buffalo Logistics: new delivery kid on the block- any good?

    I was reading this morning in the Daily Investor about Buffalo International Logistics. This part of what they wrote, "There is so much demand for the service that Buffalo purchased a 25,000 square meter sorting centre with a 6,000 square meter bonded warehouse in October 2022. It enabled the...
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    Extra large carpet for listening room

    Try any wall to wall carpeting business. They sell carpeting off rolls up to 4 Meters wide and you can specify the length. The edges will be stitched up to prevent unravelling and you will get a carpet that matches your dimensions. They will also stock a wide variety of carpet patterns and...
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    Subwoofer Advise

    Agree with you, Ken Masters. I would draw the OP's attention to the fact that the SVS SB1000 (new model) is tunable and controllable via the built in smartphone app. It has three EQ settings for different parts of the playable frequency range. It can literally be tuned in to compensate for the...
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    How much do cables matter?

    Can someone please explain the meaning of 'noisefloor'? Back in the days when I was building preamps and amps, I was very sensitive to hum and hiss as background noise. With my modern commercial amp, I can turn volume full up (without input signal) and hear... silence. Connect my CD player or...
  6. J

    Exposed Wires For 7.1 set up

    If this house gets burgled, the thieves will be after the copper pipes and leave the sound system alone.
  7. J

    The Incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's Crazy Exploration Vessel

    Jacques Cousteau played a big part in developing the sport of scuba diving. The man is a legend for his pioneering work in underwater exploration. Definitely worth at least looking him up on Wikipedia. His seminal book is called The Silent World. '
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    CD player as a Transport?

    Transports do make a difference. To illustrate, I've had a skipping disc on one machine which played fine on another. Also, but I don't understand the details, I know that there is an error correction process in cd playback. Where does that take place?
  9. J

    Have you seen a value increase with Solar install on sale of your property?

    That is a sensible approach. Battery prices I think have bottomed out and are moving up due to sellers taking big profits. Panels are slowly improving as well.
  10. J

    Interesting old turntable from a estate sale

    The diaper of the arm might be Huggies?
  11. J

    Is this the end of MQA?

    Thanks, Eish.
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    Is this the end of MQA?

    Any views on this please, my impression is that the terms 'folding' and 'unfolding' was marketing speak for compression processes?
  13. J

    Is this the end of MQA?

    Before MQA becomes part of snake oil history, can someone please explain if 'folding and unfolding' is any different from compressing and decompressing? Thanks in advance.
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    Richard Allen speakers

    "...worth my while in terms of money and time...". Your conundrum is the same as that of an old car restorer. Let me explain. If you want to restore in order to use these yourself, then the answer is probably not worthwhile as they are inefficient speakers by modern standards, with limited...
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    TV Repair help please

    Thanks for your tip. Although the screen was dark, directly from the side, looking at the edge of the panel, there was very dim illumination.
  16. J

    TV Repair help please

    Am not aware of how he paid but I will raise this idea with him. Thanks.
  17. J

    TV Repair help please

    That's a good idea, I'll pass it on.
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    TV Repair help please

    On behalf of a friend: he has a recent model Hisense large screen TV, still under the guarantee period but he has lost his invoice. The TV transmits sound but the screen is blank. He lives in Honeydew Gauteng and is looking for a repair business that could ideally come to him or at least pick up...
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    Can it be cleaned?

    It seems that most of the record destatifying brushes don't really work. At least that was my experience many years ago when LPs were the only media we had to play. I even tried antistat guns which were supposed to eject a stream of ions onto the LP surface to neutralise the static charge...
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