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Post by mikeyb on May 2, 2024 10:05:45 GMT
Bespoke is just another method for adding a zero to the end 😉
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Post by bencat on May 2, 2024 10:09:10 GMT
Appreciate that but having looked all over there is nothing in the size I need that will fit the spaces and give me the maximum storage capacity I am looking for . So my wife wants the CD,s moved and out on show and I need to be able to do something I do not have the skills to make something myself and ready made is just not going to fit .
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Post by lurch on May 2, 2024 12:21:35 GMT
If most quotes are pretty much £1k+ then maybe have a word with Paul Knipe (knipster) of Solid sounds in Leeds. He does beautiful work and being a hifi nut you'll probably get a good price.
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Post by hifinutt on May 2, 2024 13:50:00 GMT
voted this morning
then watched the feedback from viewings of a tiny 2 bed in a dreadful road . i am helping owner with sale etc. so far 12,000 people have viewd since sat , had about 18 viewings in 3 hours . the demand is huge and offers rolling in !!!! wow
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Post by lurch on May 2, 2024 19:35:05 GMT
Today I returned the 9000CDT to Audio T in Portsmouth. It has become glitchy over the last week, stopping once or several times during tracks on some albums, with a 1 - 10 second gap before resuming from where it stopped. Yesterday I put one of the CDs it plays up on in my 1994 Technics SLPG-440A in system 2, it played right through with no problems. Stuck the CD in the 9000 and it stopped dead at 1:06 on my favourite track and took 12 seconds to resume, it also refuses to update firmware via USB as detailed by them on YT.
They're going to run it in the shop and then send to Audiolab for investigation, in the meantime they've lent my a £2.4k Cyrus CDi-xr, just need to pop in tomorrow when go to mums and ask for the bloody remote (was a shop display model and I didn't check the box contents).
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Post by Bigman80 on May 2, 2024 20:42:05 GMT
Today I returned the 9000CDT to Audio T in Portsmouth. It has become glitchy over the last week, stopping once or several times during tracks on some albums, with a 1 - 10 second gap before resuming from where it stopped. Yesterday I put one of the CDs it plays up on in my 1994 Technics SLPG-440A in system 2, it played right through with no problems. Stuck the CD in the 9000 and it stopped dead at 1:06 on my favourite track and took 12 seconds to resume, it also refuses to update firmware via USB as detailed by them on YT. They're going to run it in the shop and then send to Audiolab for investigation, in the meantime they've lent my a £2.4k Cyrus CDi-xr, just need to pop in tomorrow when go to mums and ask for the bloody remote (was a shop display model and I didn't check the box contents). Well that's annoying. |
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Post by antonio on May 3, 2024 5:07:49 GMT
lurch That's unlucky John, good of the shop to lend you another player, we all know problems can arise with electronics. Bet that Lector ran faultlessly. 
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Post by macca on May 3, 2024 5:47:22 GMT
why does a CD transport need firmware updates? What a pain in the arse.
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Post by hifinutt on May 3, 2024 9:39:33 GMT
gosh thats mad , i had to have firmware updates recently on a streamer pre dac but never known it on a cd player . keep us posted john
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Post by sq225917 on May 3, 2024 16:29:38 GMT
My cd transport hasn't had a firmware update since 1998...
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Post by macca on May 3, 2024 17:12:48 GMT
I haven't had a firmware update since 1978.
It's a feature not a bug.
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Post by stevew on May 3, 2024 17:36:54 GMT
I haven't had a firmware update since 1978. It's a feature not a bug. Yeah .. me too. That would have been Anne Hesketh. |
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Post by lurch on May 3, 2024 19:09:04 GMT
Have now had the Cyrus CDi-xr in the system 24hrs (been run continuously to 'burn-in') also picked up the remote this afternoon.
At £2.4k for the Cyrus I am not impressed, and then you have another £2.4k you could spunk on the upgrade PSU. For a £2.4k CD player I would expect a far higher level of SQ, even used as a transport via coax into the BI, its not a patch on the 9000CDT.
Where the 9000 is detailed, expressive, tonally rich and coherent across the frequency spectrum. The Cyrus whilst detailed is to me tonally bland, it doesn't draw me in to the Music. The sound for me has closed in, the soundstage is much smaller in height, width & depth, congested almost. According to revues I've read the addition of the psu-xr opens up the sounstage, provides space and air and more extension, a £2.4k CDP shouldn't need another £2.4k box to make it sound decent.
The Cyrus will do the job for the time being but I'm looking forward to the day I get the 9000 back in the system.
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Post by Bigman80 on May 3, 2024 20:00:45 GMT
Have now had the Cyrus CDi-xr in the system 24hrs (been run continuously to 'burn-in') also picked up the remote this afternoon. At £2.4k for the Cyrus I am not impressed, and then you have another £2.4k you could spunk on the upgrade PSU. For a £2.4k CD player I would expect a far higher level of SQ, even used as a transport via coax into the BI, its not a patch on the 9000CDT. Where the 9000 is detailed, expressive, tonally rich and coherent across the frequency spectrum. The Cyrus whilst detailed is to me tonally bland, it doesn't draw me in to the Music. The sound for me has closed in, the soundstage is much smaller in height, width & depth, congested almost. According to revues I've read the addition of the psu-xr opens up the sounstage, provides space and air and more extension, a £2.4k CDP shouldn't need another £2.4k box to make it sound decent. The Cyrus will do the job for the time being but I'm looking forward to the day I get the 9000 back in the system. Oh dear.....that's not a good advert |
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Post by robbiegong on May 3, 2024 22:31:33 GMT
DPD dropped off a box today, Plinius Hautonga inside. Plumbed in this evening and after the shortest warm up, sounding fab already - chuffed outta mi nut ! |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 4, 2024 4:50:36 GMT
DPD dropped off a box today, Plinius Hautonga inside. Plumbed in this evening and after the shortest warm up, sounding fab already - chuffed outta mi nut ! Thank the good lord for that! |
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Post by antonio on May 4, 2024 5:06:06 GMT
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Post by lurch on May 4, 2024 5:23:18 GMT
Nice one Robbie.
It's always nerve-racking when we make a move, but great when it works out we were right.
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Post by stevew on May 4, 2024 6:01:05 GMT
If you’re going to wake up to an email, this is the one you want to wake up to.  It’s not going change my life, just nice to help out the kids a little. £3.30 |
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Post by macca on May 4, 2024 7:18:03 GMT
You could probably have 'won' that much just by digging you hand down the back of the couch.
Last place I worked I ran the lottery syndicate. £20/week on tickets for fifteen years, most we ever won was £170. I won't join it at the new place, they think I'm mad.
'But what if we win?'
Yeah good luck with that.
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Post by antonio on May 4, 2024 7:36:00 GMT
The lottery all seemed so easy when it first started, folks religiously checking their tickets only to be disappointed yet again. When I finished buying due to moving abroad I checked my tickets when I remembered.  |
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Post by macca on May 4, 2024 8:47:20 GMT
I'd rather bet it on a horse or a football match, at least you have the excitement of watching the race or the game.
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Post by stevew on May 4, 2024 8:56:04 GMT
I'd rather bet it on a horse or a football match, at least you have the excitement of watching the race or the game. Yeah… I actually agree with you on that one Macca. |
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Post by sq225917 on May 4, 2024 10:46:14 GMT
I scored a bunch of NOS 1% suflex styrene caps, 1n to 33n values, they all come up just under the rated capacitance by a handful of pf, which makes them perfect for doing a bunch of RIAA curves for Paradise builds as I've loads of 16, 33 and 50pf that I can pad them out with. Big order going in with TX components for a load of vishay naked foils this weekend.
And I've bought a new lcr meter
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Post by hifinutt on May 4, 2024 17:11:02 GMT
went off to see the architect digging the exploratory hole ready for the topograpy survey next week on the drive/road project
passed some neighbours also digging out garden to make a drive and then a road in future to access it , sadly it was at least 22% gradiant and the council will just decine any dropped kerb application !!! anyway we put them in the picture and hopefully they will replan it
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Post by bencat on May 5, 2024 11:35:01 GMT
Well today was the first day it was warm enough to have breakfast in the garden . Open the French Windows in the music and allow the Quads do there trick of radiating sounds from the back . Much needed sunshine some cereal and great cups of tea . Cerys on the radio and Orchestra Boabab playing which always sounds better in the sun. Missed the sun this year and so glad to see it finally appear , hopefully this is signs of more to come and I can get a decent start on a tan before I go to see my brother in June at Cape Cod .
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Post by pete on May 5, 2024 11:37:04 GMT
Well today was the first day it was warm enough to have breakfast in the garden . Open the French Windows in the music and allow the Quads do there trick of radiating sounds from the back . Much needed sunshine some cereal and great cups of tea . Cerys on the radio and Orchestra Boabab playing which always sounds better in the sun. Missed the sun this year and so glad to see it finally appear , hopefully this is signs of more to come and I can get a decent start on a tan before I go to see my brother in June at Cape Cod . Sounds wonderful. It’s raining here!!🤣 |
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Post by antonio on May 5, 2024 15:57:08 GMT
"Sounds wonderful. It’s raining here!!" The sun shines on righteous. Oh, it's been warm and sunny here also.  |
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Post by hifinutt on May 5, 2024 16:31:50 GMT
and the unrighteous !!
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Post by hifinutt on May 5, 2024 16:34:40 GMT
mixed the sound today which was fun as i forget it was my turn and had to rush there
had a chap speaking from a church who have had 90 Hong Kong Chinese join over recent months , this is a very very wealthy area , they are trying to integrate now with good success .
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