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by ed
Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: cataloguing my vinyl collection
Replies: 68
Views: 30603

please feel to use as much time as you like - you sit in in the warm and do that whilst I am outside in the wind and rain building yet another workshop :P doesn't sound quite right to me... at the end of this endeavour you have a nice warm, dry, and draft free workshop, not to mention a bonefide ca...
by ed
Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:11 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: cataloguing my vinyl collection
Replies: 68
Views: 30603

I've always found that putting them on a shelf and reading the spines from left to right worked quite well. :D that works (up to a point) on the artist and cover title - what it does not do is list the tracks for you - and when you have as many records as I do searching for a specific track by this...
by ed
Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: The JE Labs 6SL7/EL34 Build
Replies: 755
Views: 185443

Colin, I write this because it occurred to me partly as a truth, and partly as a piece of advice(from the perspective of a Rocky fan in the past). Many of us have read the progress reports and diversions of this amp over the last 3 or 4 years, and I for one have been a tad frustrated from time to ti...
by ed
Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:07 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: 2a3 amp
Replies: 288
Views: 97884

I am itching and scratching the itch raw to get back to building something sweet and silly (71 output) or even as huge as 2A3 because at the moment I just haven't got one but ... no time, no time - aaarrrrgggggghhhhhhh. thought I had all your 71s.....did you keep a special reserve that you didn't t...
by ed
Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:24 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Replies: 20
Views: 12258

fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis.....the clue, if your not familiar, is in the other youtube clips...... then there's : the lark ascending dives and lazarus all good stuff, usually found on one disc.....I can recommend the st martins in the fields version with iona brown then there's the sea.......
by ed
Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:37 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Rectifier anode impedance
Replies: 17
Views: 8101

what is the benefit of using hybrid like this?
by ed
Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:24 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: The JE Labs 6SL7/EL34 Build
Replies: 755
Views: 185443

more talk less action.......

this amp must surely be a candidate for guinness record

snigger

c'mon
by ed
Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:26 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: The JE Labs 6SL7/EL34 Build
Replies: 755
Views: 185443

try changing 5r4g for a 5u4gb in psud.......providing youve got 3 amps for the heater......

it will deffo give you a few more volts to play with
by ed
Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:14 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: cataloguing my vinyl collection
Replies: 68
Views: 30603

update not as straightforward as I'd hoped......there doesn't seem to be any lp db equivalent to cddb..... any solution along the lines I'd outlined would rely on a definitive catalogue of lp titles, much like cddb does for Cds.......can't find such a catalogue. A clunky solution would be to use cdd...
by ed
Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:05 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: cataloguing my vinyl collection
Replies: 68
Views: 30603

It doesn't sound like much of a problem.... I am intrigued...I will have a look at it......do you have a preference for which database you want to use..I immediately thought of a C++ front end on a local db....If you chose the jet database(providing its still available on windows platforms) you can ...
by ed
Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:09 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Homeplug
Replies: 18
Views: 7655

Re: Homeplug

Tony Moore wrote:
Any comments good or bad received with thanks! (within reason! ) :lol:

Cheers,
Tony
bet you weren't expecting to receive that little lot..........bit like the Spanish inquisition.....nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
by ed
Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:13 pm
Forum: New Users
Topic: hello and great to be here :)
Replies: 45
Views: 22064

:lol: follower or fan Ed! Ms Beeny has a lot to answer for in our house, I want a rest :cussing: :lol: ... thanks Richard........I hadn't been aware of her until now...and what an eyeful....there are pics on google and they all have one thing in common..she pips Charlie Dimmock at the post..... I a...
by ed
Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:23 am
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: somewhere off jazz street
Replies: 1
Views: 1630

somewhere off jazz street

discovered these at the same time as povarovo.....I like to think its the same genre.........

fabbo!
by ed
Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:08 am
Forum: New Users
Topic: hello and great to be here :)
Replies: 45
Views: 22064

tarnation dude!...what is a Sarah Beeny stalker....please do tell
by ed
Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:21 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: Spare Amp
Replies: 80
Views: 27011

SteveTheShadow wrote:

The amp passing its HT test, no magic smoke escaped :)
any fewl no, there's no magic smoke in there.....you need little black plastic things.....

btw...I agree, well shoddy!