What's up with Hifi Wigwam?
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Gray
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Yes, it's had some different issues, leading to a few of the regulars leaving - and starting up another forum, called Maverick.
Last time I looked at the Wam, my phone got the error message, but the site still came up on the laptop.
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davidf
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plastic penguin
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I suppose they look at themselves as hi-fi Top Gun.
Didn't see that coming but always came across as quite an elitist forum, as a consequence I haven't visited the forum in over a year.
daveh75
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No great loss.
Very much a case of lunatics running the asylum , what with the most deluded audiophoolery being actively encouraged and the slightest hint of objectivity considered "spoiling"
Never registered, and only looked in once in a while for the 💩 and giggles.
The computer based hifi forum was hilarious.
Particularly some of the networking "theory" being shared over there.
Very much a case of lunatics running the asylum , what with the most deluded audiophoolery being actively encouraged and the slightest hint of objectivity considered "spoiling"
Never registered, and only looked in once in a while for the 💩 and giggles.
The computer based hifi forum was hilarious.
Particularly some of the networking "theory" being shared over there.
plastic penguin
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Always found them to be manipulating bunch. One guy kept pestering me to buy a Arcam CD23, as, according to him, the DCS Ring Dac was superior. But a number of independent owners reviews said it sounded dull.
They quite often dissed my system at the time, many liked all the amps I have no interest in: Class A and tube amps.
No big loss in my view.
gpi2
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It was one of the longest established and it deserved a more dignified demise. I assume it has completely gone now.
Al ears
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No idea.
However long it has been around it appeared to me to be no longer worth visiting, and that I determine a good while ago....
Gray
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plastic penguin
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Gray
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😆 Come off it - Gerry gave them all smaller heads in an attempt to make them look more real.....but it made them look wrong 🙂
DougK1
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Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, never missed a single episode 
plastic penguin
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I used have a Capt Scarlet doll with moving limbs, gun....Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, never missed a single episode
Still have a SPV (Spectrum Persuit Vehicle) where the door opens with the Capt sitting there.
Also have Thunderbird 2 in the attic with the sub Thunderbird 5 (I think)
plastic penguin
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DougK1
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Ooh, gotta correct you there PP, that would be Thunderbird 4, Thunderbird 5 was the space station. I'll let you off cos you're a young un
plastic penguin
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Okay. Haven't seen it in years.Ooh, gotta correct you there PP, that would be Thunderbird 4, Thunderbird 5 was the space station. I'll let you off cos you're a young un
Young'un? you charmer 😊
JDL
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I remember Gerry Anderson saying he used the sound of his washing machine going into 'spin' for the sound of one of the "Thunderbird" lift offs.
God, I loved "Thunderbirds". I think "Thunderbird 2" was my favourite.
I have a scene stuck in my head of "Brains" buried up to his head in sand saying - ".....water....water..". We were still joking about that years later. Their wobbly heads and arms were just.....brilliant.
God, I loved "Thunderbirds". I think "Thunderbird 2" was my favourite.
I have a scene stuck in my head of "Brains" buried up to his head in sand saying - ".....water....water..". We were still joking about that years later. Their wobbly heads and arms were just.....brilliant.
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JDL
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DougK1
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Gray
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Only a Captain Scarlett lover would think Thunderbird 5 went underwater 🤣
plastic penguin
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In Capt Scarlet they had the Angels, four aircraft pilots. Symphony was my favourite.
Gray
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Never was, never will be, anything like it.
Sometimes they had to edit down the launches....but a full launch of TB2 was a masterpiece.
Derek Meddings, master of effects.
Barry Gray, master of music.
Great picture quality, not least due to being filmed under 40,000 watts of light.
Stingray.....I always fancied Aqua Marina - dream woman (incapable of nagging).
....and wasn't TB1 doing Harrier tricks before the Harrier?
My model remains untouched:
Still got TB2 somewhere, but a bit more battered from use as, like others, that was my preferred TB 🙂
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Witterings
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What a turn / change of subject on an original post but got to admit I've been drawn in as well, only difference is I'm that age that I watched them all but can't remember any of them
This may largely be down to me breaking my best friends Lady Penelope car ... something he never forgave me for until one day he had a vantage point and standing a couple of steps above me dropped a large rock on my head which he felt was his just rewards
This may largely be down to me breaking my best friends Lady Penelope car ... something he never forgave me for until one day he had a vantage point and standing a couple of steps above me dropped a large rock on my head which he felt was his just rewards
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