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    Device Brokers - Robertson

    I've made a lot of on-line camera and super-telephoto pro lens purchases from Kameraz in Rosebank and never had any problems. The condition always as advertised, and they guarantee and accept returns if the buyer is not satisfied. Still a very professional company.
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    Women's Month reflection

    Bea Lam, wife of Luke Manley (VTL) is another influential woman in audio.
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    Pioneer SX-1980

    Francois has a G 33000. Hopefully I haven't given a secret away.
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    Vintage Equipment

    Jeff Rowland Model 9t monoblocks (four heavy boxes). I bought them in the 90's from Audio Imports for $33k at an exchange rate of less than R4 against the $. They came with a 20 year warranty. They've operated problem free up to today. The man himself, Jeff Rowland, recently sent me some upgrade...
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    Multiplug options

    I also bought a couple of these from Francois (Audioexchange), and I do like them.
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    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    @ Agaton Sax, you have nailed it right on the head. Not going to comment more, except that there is a switch at the back of the Halcros, where you can select different modes, e.g. constant current, constant voltage, etc. That switch in the optimum position, with a compatible pre-amplifier, would...
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    CAN TURNTABLES COPE WITH LARGE CLASSICAL WORKS

    I've listened to many of the newer turntables and also compared against my SME 30 and Technics SP-10, and I can assure you that the answer to your question is a definite "Yes". The TechDas Airforce series of turntables, to mention one brand, not trying to exclude any others, are really very...
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    Standard Bank Home Loan Account Number

    OR 011six3six9oneone2
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    Standard Bank Home Loan Account Number

    08six0123zerozero1
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    Ifi Zen Phono - is it really that good?

    You won't be sorry. I still want to listen to the bigger brother of the Zen phono one day.
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    Ifi Zen Phono - is it really that good?

    I reviewed the Zen Phono and was very impressed. Real value for money. Gain like you can't imagine, so can drive almost any low voltage MC cartridge, but can also work with MM cartridges. Better than the NAD and Project phono's that I listened to. I also compared against a BAT and Alan Hobkirk...
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    Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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    Looking for someone to help with PC in the East Rand Puleez

    Data recovery could become quite expensive, and always unguaranteed. I've used Kernel for Windows Recovery software with good results many times. They have a trial version. I purchased the full version, maybe due to restrictions in functionality.
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    Vodacom contract is more difficult to cancel than a gym contract

    Same bad experience with Vodacom. They even had the audacity to hand me over to debt collectors. Affidavit at police, Hello Peter and case of fraud. Never ever any Vodacom business for me.
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    Going off the Grid

    Related question: Any solutions for 3-phase power? Someone told me that I need 3 inverters, etc. Talking figure amounted to R280k for large house
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    Pre - NO Pre

    I use the Arturia Audiofuse audio interface and ADC. This is from the pro-audio world, and a bit expensive (Just south of R10k), but it has a set of dedicated analogue phono inputs.
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    Pre - NO Pre

    "...little noisy on the horns" I expected the Mingda to be a bit too noisy. Noise is my biggest challenge at the moment with the Altec 605 transducers.
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    Pre - NO Pre

    It all depends on your mix of equipment and the level of synergy that you can reach (proper impedance matching, and cables also play a role). I still need to find a digital front end and volume control to be even near the results obtained by a very good pre ( and I went as far as a dCS Vivaldi...
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    Since I am on the topic of oil

    This issue bothered me as well, so I recently visited 3 workshops of top brand cars, and I could only find bulk drums of Castrol Magnatec 10W-40A. I always thought that Magnatec was not even full synthetic, but the workshop manager disagreed.
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    Efiling

    Depends on how the e-filing was set up. I think it must be done under the company profile, but try your personal one and check what tax types are there.
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