Say The First Thing That Springs to Mind.

Gentlemen,

I have no issue allowing words to be posted about the man in this sad time BUT it cannot descend In to argument or shot slinging.

Paul, a valid point.

Si, maybe too soon.

Keep it civil please, or this will be modded swiftly.

So many audio products are the 'mere' use of established design and/or layout. Indeed, my QED Digit dac (which I doggedly use still) was merely a drawn out implementation of the Philips 'Bitstream chipset' application notes - the chap who 'designed it' was paid a small fee for drawing it out and no more...

Naim have plaigarised the old 50's RCA PA amp circuit for decades now (so did Sinclair in the project 60 amp kits), although current models may have evolved from this somewhat - the Nait 5 and descendants have routinely had an output inductor (EEK!). I was also told that the early Naim preamps were based on similar thinking as the Quad 33, although I'm not as certain here (both band limited and using single rail supplies, the 33 at 12VDC and Naim at 24VDC).

There was an article I read with laughter regarding the Rappaport preamp from forty odd years ago. Little brushed black box with satin ally knobs and buttons and the circuit all potted up - oohh, got to be special - ... Turns out the thing was a directly copied implementation of a particular op-amp chip, using the mistakes in the application notes and no attempt to correct them. The thing popped and banged with free-flowing DC due to the incorrect application notes. All the press at the time worshipped it!!!!!

I may have been speaking of the Pre 1 then... It sounded shite in the shop too and we didn't keep it long.

Sometimes, the words 'what a wanker' just naturally seem to spring to mind.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48469798

Richard and I had many robust discussions around many aspects of hifi, electronics, marketing psychology and forum etiquette/ revisionism.

We never held back and seldom agreed.

I have great respect for his approach to customer service, pricing and value, less so for other aspects.

I'll actually miss the old fella. But let's not saint him. He wasnt, we arent.

That's better. Boring, but better. 

He was saying the other day we should tell Europe to stick their 30 billion bill where the sun doesn't shine. I'm warming to him I think.

I’d probably pick the one most likely to screw up Brexit, Gotta be Boris. I’ve said for a while I think he will call an election and I still think he will. Statistically there has to be a chance of him screwing up and the campaign unravelling.

They announced on the news that "Sajid Javid has been knocked out". I was thinking he could do with a clump. Presumably he will recover, but I'd like to congratulate whoever it was that did it! 

So we have a 2 horse race between a Tory whose name is used as slang for C#nt and another one whose face says the same thing.

Yes. A clueless bumbling simpleton and a dodgy looking specimen whose eye's are too close together.

Sajid Javid is 'The Hood' from Thunderbirds. The likeness is uncanny. www.bing.com/search?q=thunderbirds+the+hood+images&qs=AS&pq=thunderbirds+the+hoo&sk=AS1&sc=8-20&cvid=B974F95CCF7E42DDAD33B306722D36C4&FORM=QBRE&sp=2&ghc=1

I'm hoping for Boris. Not because I think he'll be any good at it but because him getting it will wind up all the wanky middle-class lefties the most.

Whoever gets it, the Tories are doomed. No deal will be voted down or the government will fall, either way a general election will follow. Farage will bleed off 40% of Tory votes and Corbyn will have a 100 seat majority...which should wind up the backward thinking, small minded, bigoted right wing wankers very nicely.