Recent content by DCarmi

Spammers and bots! I'm sure they are already here in 101, but you have to feel sorry for the poor Mods who will be busy for a while.

BBC Good Food "experts" rate Heinz and Aldi as the best and Lidl a bit behind. Though Aldi being 99p cheaper than the Heinz at Sainsbury, I know which I'd choose. (You do realise the Nisbet's is a catering tin of over 6 times of normal Heinz size?)

There are lots of articles "out there" describing results of ABX testing. You may view the post I am linking to (from head-fi.org: 2010 but updated in 2024) and you may view it as biased and quite a lot of the historical links are now broken. Feel free to trawl through the 1266 pages of forum...

Your post prompted some research. Wikipedia, unsurprisingly contradicts itself. However, the Kenwood (JVC) site has a historical timeline , which should be more reliable and it you are indeed nearly correct. 👍 Potted history (Audio): 1946 - Kasuga Radio Co Ltd formed (Branded as Kenwood) 1957...

They are different companies. Kenwood (Kenneth Wood) was a UK company making kitchen appliances. They are now part of some foreign conglomerate. I can't remember which. I don't think they manufacture in the UK any more. Kenwood (Hifi etc) was a Japanese company, bought out by Trio, which then...

I think you are confusing the first broadcast tests in 1920 by Marconi prior to the formation of the BBC. Even then, Marconi was a UK company until it was bought by GEC 50 years later.

I think there are likely to be significant changes to both linear and streaming services. Already, Sky and Channel 5 are US owned. ITV is suffering falls in revenue and the BBC undergoing cost-cutting for years. Plans to privatise C4 seem to be on hold for the moment but have been discussed and...

Lego brick and a toy soldier from inside a CD player. Also found one of the little monsters making a fun noise by swiping the turntable arm backwards and forwards over an LP. Turntable survived but the record was killed in action.

And Greenland will become Redwhiteandblueland!

No experience of either but look at Soundwire or Hifi Cast. Remote Mouse might be worth looking at. It (apparently) can act as a remote for you PC. Again not something I have tried.

Really! Genesis were not successful after Peter Gabriel? They were a collaborative band and whilst Collins may have had much influence, the others could have done what Hackett did and walk. I'd bet that not many of the Gabriel led Genesis albums make it into the top 10 best selling Genesis...

There are plenty of acts I personally don't like and would not give space to in my Spotify playlists let alone in CD or Vinyl storage. I don't feel the need to get vitriolic about them.

I don't like later Genesis stuff that much but I listen to Trick of the Tail quite often. One track is a bit suspect but the rest are excellent. I make little defence for albums after Abacab. Basically, if I don't enjoy, I don't listen to stuff more than twice. Going to see Mike and the...

I am certain that some of my kids who are now in the 20 and 30s have no idea how to work my hifi and would struggle with the Wiim Pro and amp (if they were remotely interested): Find the streamer on the network (called Wiim Hifi) to stream to - what is a Wiim? Check if the amp is switched off...

I don't think it was much different in days gone by. People bought radiograms, music centres etc, way back when. My Grandfather was a music and hifi buff and frequently swapped components and cartridges and built his own speakers, way back in the 50s and 60s, but I don't really remember anyone...