Essential element in the listening environment

[Gazjam]

Never mind Prescott...Here's Martin "two fireplaces"

[awkwardbydesign]

Canon Climatic mate, from 1973. Now that's a gas fire. It has fallen off the wall because the brackets have perished.

That's kind of what we had in the fireplace after the open fire and before the central heating. But the bars across the front used to rattle! And when I took it out, I discovered that soot had piled up behind it to just below the vent. A few more months and we would have died from carbon monoxide poisoning!

[Macca]

I suppose in hi fi terms a radiator is better than a gas fire. Lower noise.

[awkwardbydesign]

I suppose in hi fi terms a radiator is better than a gas fire. Lower noise.

Not with our pump, it's in the living room! I have built a false wall in front of it, but still. And a gas fire creates moisture, while central heating dehydrates, so we have to run a humidifier.
Anyway, I never minded the hiss of a gas fire, or the crackle of an open one. But the soot from the regular blowbacks didn't help.