Barry
Fount Master & Moderator

5C and fair. At another boot sale. My mobile is playing up - claiming no connection to the Internet, so have borrowed my partner's phone. At...

Good one Mike :)

How do you know they are OCC? Are they directional? What improvements have you heard? I'm genuinely interested.

Ah, "Hot Rats, part II". :) (See if you can listen to 'Chunga's Revenge' before Anita tells you to "turn that awful music off". ;) )

Agree Beefheart can be very self indulgent. His 'Trout Mask Replica' is, to my ears, unlistenable. Yet it appears in the top most influential...

Looks like the cord on an iron. Sadly it doesn't conform with Walker's 'Second Rule of Speaker Cable Selection': that the cable's outer covering...

No, I'm a mere Moderator and do not have the necessary permissions to do that sort of thing. Not that I would anyway. ;)

Zappa produced an enormous canon of work going through many directions. I find his 'vaudeville' period lyrically puerile, but put up with it for his...

Yes - I can see coaxial cable is used (don't know why you are quite so triumphant), and yes it does look like RG8. I have not seen the video...

11C and cloudy. We're at a boot-sale and I'm wearing a thick sweater under a body-warmer zipped into a windcheater, woolly hat and gloves!

When are they due to arrive - by the end of the month? :popcorn:

I'm always surprised by those that fall for the OCC label. When the billet of copper is cast and drawn by the OCC method, the crystals may well be up...

RG8/U is a coaxial cable, I would be surprised if Chord used it for their speaker cable, but you never know.

So change the café you normally frequent. That way you won't have to insult those who work there with four-letter names.

Then make your own and stop complaining, or we shall have to change your user name to "Mikeandmoan".

Do we really need to know? :doh: But look on the bright side, given your description of the taste the coffee could be made from kopi luwak beans,...

Yes - I did know. Had a quick look and it too is reasonably priced at ~£5 a metre. Obviously it will be thicker, but hopefully still very...

https://theartofsound.net/forum/shortbread.php?62250-Fisual-S-Flex-Studio-Grade-2-5mm-Review

Further to the above, I can also recommend Fisual S-flex 2.5mm2 speaker cable. It gets a lot of good reviews, is cheap (~ £2 a metre), extremely...

I still use QED 79 strand cable. I've used it in various lengths for years. At the moment the speaker leads are 1m long (though they could be as...

12C with bright sunshine. :)

An error which they freely admitted. The window cleaner called today - so naturally it rained after he had finished. :doh:

By "blasted", do you mean played at very a high volume level? If so I don't understand, all music should be played at an appropriate level: rock...

I'm a fan of David Thewlis: he was good in the Mike Lee's films I have seen as well as his portrayal as the "inspector" in 'An Inspector Calls', but...

Human Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Nature_(2001_film) A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an...

The Zero Theorem The Zero Theorem is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Mélanie...

Baked potato with a tuna and mayonaisse filling, and vegetables. Profiteroles for dessert That's enough to be going on with for now....

More chilli, rice and veg: (Chilli con carne and rice is one of my favourite dishes, When I make it, I make a "bucketful", so will last three...

Chilli con carne, on long grain rice with vegetables: Lemon cheese cake for dessert:

Home made meatballs on a bed of spaghetti, with a pesto sauce and vegetables. Strawberries and Greek yogurt for dessert. A 2021 Côte du Rhône,...