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Will wrote:...the Red Indian peeing next to him was a wasted Jaco..

I've suggested this before, but I do feel we need a "Celebrity Slash" thread...

Top result! Impressive....

Will be for both my solid-state amps and both SE & PP tube amps... 2 pairs of speakers then? very unlikely to get damping to suit both types in one pair of speakers..bass will likely be wayward with one type of amp. re binding posts...price is a consideration...I've never found anything wrong w...

Blank canvas ATM - rather liked http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/markaudio/215597-a12-2p-super-pencil-build.html using Alpair 12Ps... but that's purely an emotional statement. I'm open to any reasonable argument... Will be for both my solid-state amps and both SE & PP tube amps... Don't know a lot...

What are people's feelings about these vs. traditional binding posts?

Just starting to think that I might want to build another pair of speakers...

Hmmmm...

pre65 wrote:Do peanuts need an almanac ?

Absolutely. It'd be nuts not to...

Two power outages last night, 2nd one just before 2 am (I woz akip), so had to reset all the clocks and timers twice. :x I always use a member of the DS3231 family in all my nixie & other digital clocks... http://www.maximintegrated.com/datasheet/index.mvp/id/4627 Wonderful chips with battery b...

Just loved this - not your usual rock-n-roll, but such skill - Luthier Brian Lisus at work using only 16th Century techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUixINRBZY He has a web site: http://www.lisusviolins.com/ There is something about real craftsmen & artists that can almost bring a tea...

Glandular fever is nasty. And there's no cure. Please don't be negatively suggestive! It is no big deal. Many get it and probably many of us here have also had it. Yes - everyone here has had it except me - mostly is a couple of weeks of ennui followed by a period of recovery. The "ME" ri...

Mike H wrote:Glandular fever is nasty. And there's no cure.

Apparently the cure is for your parents to pay for a flight home and then for Mum & Dad to wait on you hand & foot, making copious cups of tea, huge meals, hot water bottles etc.

Slowness will only get worse as HTML5 creeps into the mainstream - we're trying to do a lot of real-time stuff with HTML5 and its tough. Its a dog... Another thing that makes pages slow is if you enable "safe browsing" checks - nice idea in principle, but as most web pages silently load st...

Dave the bass wrote:

nickds1 wrote: DTB didn't buy any of it

Thats cos DTB builds lots of stuff and has lots of stuff already thank you

It was loverly stuff! I re-built those Perreaux amps from the ground up.

chris661 wrote:Well, they've released the exam timetables.

My younger son has just come back from uni today because he's got glandular fever. Completely cr*p timing for his exams.

Hope yours go well...

German forklift driver training video with English subtitles. You need to watch until the end



Not sure if this should be in humour, training videos, health & safety, shlock-horror or just plain mad?

To be honest I rarely see ActiveX on web pages, and anyway it's not a good idea to rely on code that only IE can run, web pages need to be more flexible, and anyway I have it set to ask before downloading ActiveX plugin. I usually refuse. No serious running issues as far as I can remember. Not so m...