Recent content by Samd

Forgive my ignorance but are we talking about background/foreground; spoken/sung?

Bovril - the original beefy hot drink that has been keeping Britain's chin up for decades, fuelling Brits to face all the elements.

....but bigfish mentions specifically 'the amps' which would mean a set of these for every input?

It all started with Better-Half deciding to ‘need’ the Christmas tree in a different position this year! I agreed to move left speaker much nearer to left wall (toed-in rear outer corner 12cm from left wall) as a temporary measure and with the other then looking so out of place, plonked it in...

You are all so bloomin' young on here;) I'm well beyond the 3 score and 10!!

Arh go on - you know it's only cos you're worried someone might catch you at it!

I was very happy but there was nothing clever about it. They only sold Pioneer and one other make (forget which) so choice (at special rates) was very limited.

I posted mine here in another thread a few days ago - I went down to the local NAAFI shop in Fallingbostel in the 70s and bought just about one of everything Pioneer had on display. RT 909 Open Reel, CT F1250 Cassette Recorder, PL L1000 Tangential Arm, SA 9900 Int Amp The obligatory graphic eq

I wont argue in general cos not enough knowledge but their Soundlink Mini II is renowned in the 'portable world'. The exception proves....

Great to hear that - thanks.

...but that's what matters - n'est ce pas?

It will, however, take some time to change - ONS data shows: Internet use among older age groups has increased substantially over the last five years, but many are still non-users. 4.2 million people aged 65+ have never used the internet. A quarter (26%) of people aged 65 to 74 and around...

Are you sure you can't stretch to a 32" Avtex? With both 12 and 240 capability, I used them over a couple of decades and with a soundbar couldn't fault them.

Probably too late now but turning off CEC and looking to see if you have a setting for 'sending audio to TV' or similar on AV, would have cured your TV 'interfering' when not required!

All my 'kit' goes through a protected power strip which itself plugs into a wifi socket which plugs into a wall socket. The wifi socket switches everything off at midnight till 1130 the following day. I would be interested if you discern a difference.