Recent content by Steve983

Prog is Progressive Rock, a term coined in the 70's for bands such as Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Rush. ELP, Jethro Tull and even Pink Floyd to an extent. Prog carried on throughout the 80's despite being lambasted by music critics and is alive and well today albeit underground and obscure.

I ticked Rock but its really a mix of Prog Rock/some metal/ambient electronic space music plus the likes of Joni Mitchell & Kate Bush and a smattering of 70's Elton John, Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and some classical too. I have well over 100 different artists in my collection so its hard to...

In the latter days of Cassettes I remember TDK had a line of tapes called 'cd-ing' - I assume the idea was that you could record cd's on to tape for playback in the car - at least that's what I did at that time. Seems crazy now but during that brief overlap of the two formats before we had cd...

Never made money - That is completely untrue. And if 'they've always been ripped off' (only partly true) that does not make it ok. Would you be happy to be paid basically nothing for your work? The likes of Spotify are bloodsuckers and are devaluing music and the majority of people who don't...

Perhaps the main negative of streaming is that the artist is being ripped off. This is not a good thing.

I love my old NAD amps with the loudness button. Not always but depending on the music it really transforms the sound especially at lower levels.

I've always preferred having tone controls, won't buy an amp without them.

None, don't like either.

I must admit I have been put off by the current silver finish of most of Cambridge Audio's units, silver seems rather 70's to me. My Cambridge AXC 35 cd player sticks out in an otherwise black or gunmetal grey hi fi stack but I've learnt to live with it :)

I have a 20+ year old NAD cd player which had been serviced and belts replaced and sounds pretty good with its own DAC and even better with a modern DAC but I wouldn't go any older than that. You might be lucky but you might not.

I am on my 3rd pair of Sennheiser HD595's and they still sound great although no longer made of course. Headphones are my serious listening option as 'loud' speakers are not usable due to being semi detached. Although last year my long time neighbour sadly passed away and for 6 months next door...

Yep, Tweddle talking twaddle. I dread to think how many thousands Cambridge paid to have their logo/decals changed to supposedly virtue signal diversity. Trying to make your products appeal to people who don't want them is a sure fire way to alienate your existing customer base.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/only-rebrands-iconic-hi-fi-company-cambridge-audio-for-a-new-era/ I stumbled upon this article recently and thought it was kind of relevant to this thread because Cambridge Audio have some new branding to appeal to a 'younger and more diverse' audience. I have never...

I changed the settings to avoid it. Certainly don't need that while driving and if I need to know when to panic I'll watch the BBC - which I don't.

It's not even worth talking about. Enough said.