Goodman's High Impact Monitors - Goodman's answer to JBL:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355008142173?
For once something described as 'rare' that actually is rare. Collection from Brum.
I always wanted a go on some of these but you never see them.
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Goodman's High Impact Monitors - Goodman's answer to JBL:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355008142173?
For once something described as 'rare' that actually is rare. Collection from Brum.
I always wanted a go on some of these but you never see them.
Tandberg TL5010 good price.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235760904357?
Don't know them but yet to hear a bad Tandberg.
'Audio Intimidation' speakers. Never heard of the brand and he's not exactly been generous with the pics.
But intriguing:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276624754514?
They’re great but they are hilariously overpriced and those a non-original bass drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
A completely original pair with re-foamed bass drivers sold for 99p back in August!
Hmm, before taking a punt on these I would first make sure I can indeed get audio cables from B&Q. I already have plenty of speakers with no audio cable, I won't get fooled again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I did think the drivers looked iffy but thought it must be my memory playing me false. Only ever seen pics of them and a long time ago now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
Were you at Goodmans in that era?
Last time I was in B&Q there were no staff anywhere. Not even on the tills. People were either abandoning their purchases or walking out with them without paying. One bloke had one of those flat bed trolley things full of stuff, just walked out with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I wasn't going to do that and I couldn't be arsed to go elsewhere so I hung about and after ten minutes or so some girl did turn up and, acting like it was some huge imposition, started scanning stuff through at breakneck pace.
I thought my bill was a bit light, when I got back and looked at the receipt there was a couple of things that weren't on there.
She must have run them across so fast they didn't register.
Maybe you'd interrupted the leaving party they were having for her in the storeroom, and she was past giving a shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I usually do ok at B&Q, because years ago my brother did some work for one of their regional managers, who in return set us up with 'Trade Point' cards with their best discount rate (apparently not all Trade Point cards are created equal). Twelve years on and the card still works, they scan it and knock money off :)
I'm sure B&Q sell orange lawnmower cable. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
They also sell colour-matched cable lifters. And quite a bit cheaper than Future Shop :) At the risk of blinding folk with science I will say these ones are designed to offer a choice of seven different floor proximities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kSEAA...1/s-l1600.webp
I'm sure treading cable through the holes would a bit of a PITA! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Nothing worthwhile is ever easy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Billy bargain! Bit of Pledge, they'll be good as new :)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387593624...Bk9SR6z6kOXiZA
Apparently they were designed with a rectangular shape and made of wood material, giving them a unique brown colour.
And wired connectivity too! I've always said you can't go wrong with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I tried to purchase something on the self-service tills. When things went t*ts up I asked a roving member of staff for help. His reply, and I kid you not, was that he couldn't help me as he "hadn't been trained on the self sevice tills"!Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
When I had that experience it was before they had self service. It was when I had an allotment so would be about 2007 or 2008.Quote:
Originally Posted by majex45
One job I'd hate is being the bloke who has to stand around the self service tills and sort out the problems and clear the baskets away. The time must really drag.
What did you grow on your allotment, and why did you give it up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
strawberries, and tomatoes in the greenhouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Was derelict when I got it, spent weeks clearing it, repainted and repaired the greenhouse.
End of the second year the 'committee' said I was 'under utilising' it as I had half of it still fallow. Said they'd kick me off it so I told them where to stick it.
That's the trouble with committees - as individuals they can hide behind their collective decisions. Also they only need to employ one brain cell each in order to form one barely functioning organism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Is your space at the back of your house not big enough to use? Smallish greenhouses aren't super-expensive, and I'd come over to help you chuck one up.
https://imsvintagephotos.com/cdn/sho...g?v=1630127089
No no no, committee says you can't grow that here
This is what you get when AI goes skip hunting......Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Cheers but stupid children would just smash it. I used to have a shed out back but it kept getting broken into. Nothing in it, it was there when I bought the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
They'd go through all the draws every time, presumably expecting to find cash and diamond jewellery and other valuable things someone might well keep in a shed.
Really winds me up that kind of thing, the laws only exist to protect the lawbreakers. They can do as they please with no consequences, but if you try to employ reasonable measures to protect your property, like electrified fences or broken glass on the walls you can expect a visit from Plod. Even painting the tops of walls with anti-vandal paint is only allowed if you also put up warning signs, and where's the fun in that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Given free reign I'd have remote control pop-up machine guns similar to what Blofeldt has in the crater of his volcano lair in 'You Only Live Twice.'Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Two should give me sufficient arc of fire to cover the whole yard.
Many years ago when I bought my first flat in a less lugubrious area of London the next door neighbour's son used to break in to my flat occasionally and nick random stuff to feed his drug addiction. Inspired by Vietnam films, I considered concealing sharpened bamboo sticks in the weeds under the high wall he used to climb over to get into my garden but ultimately thought better of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Good thing too, you don't want him bleeding all over your carpets, that would be awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
While there'd be excellent "forensic opportunities" (even our worse than useless CSIs couldn't bugger that one up), you'd be expected to provide field dressings and maybe a blood transfusion (duty of care and all that). And a nice cup of tea while waiting for the ambulance.
No, I was there 2000 - 2004 when they were only doing OEM car speakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Bargain from a charity shop, a B&W mini zeppelin for a tenner!
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...98c8d5797b.jpg
Certainly looks like a bargain. Is it for iPods, or will it connect to other devices?
I’ve just used the aux port with a Bluetooth receiver or my old sandisk MP3 player, sounds good [emoji846]Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Or you can plug an Echo Dot into that aux port and have free access to more radio stations then you knew existed. I use mine this way :)
Not ebay but I think this amplifier is good value, I recently picked one up on a Black Friday deal for £135 but there is now a further 10% off voucher that can be claimed taking it down to £122.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AIYIMA-A70-...3665665&sr=8-3
Seems good to my ears but I don't think my ears are particularly sensitive. There are some very positive reviews with measurements and I've linked a couple below. I picked it up so I could utilise a subwoofer with the pre-outs from an integrated going into the sub and then the sub outs going in to the Aiyima.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/f...-review.52830/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2yIXvX7v0&t=6s
Allison Five speakers:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126854052689?
A bit tatty and not my sort of thing but I know they have a following.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115729161319?
'Excellent condition to almost new'
If you discount cabinet damage to both and one mashed tweeter...
Good speakers but even if not knackered asking a ton for them is a bit daft.
Wharfedale 'Delta 9' - I remember these as being pretty good, much better than the crappy 'Delta 30'
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235875920962?
Do need some low stands though.
Sony SCD XB790 SACD player, outstanding units these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116397139895?
QS but better built than some of the ES. I have one but it needs a new belt.
On the plus side the are "a rectangular shape", so suitable stands shouldn't be hard to find. And they are also wired for connectivity :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I think they chuck in the last bit for the benefit of the teenyboppers who don't remember the world before Bluetooth and might expect the speakers to 'recognise' their iPhone and just start playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
In no reality are they in the condition described! The non-mashed tweeter looks like it has been pushed to some degree, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I'm really not sure what's going on here. Why are people bidding on this??!?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375890873...mis&media=COPY
I'm watching out of some perverse curiosity. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion...
Steph
Some days bargains can be found at BHF on eBay, but this is not one of them, I can only assume that those bidding on this can see that this cartridge has a super transparent presentation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steph Dale
I have had some bargains from BHF, but be aware their packaging skills are abysmal.
Yeah, ditto. I had an absolutely mint Thorens TD126 MkII delivered to me in sub-component form because they'd just put it in a loose box. And that despite me giving them packing instructions.
I got a refund, despite their protestations.
Steph
Why wouldn't they be bidding? Aren't they over a grand new? What am I missing?
Coz they haven't looked closely at the pics...Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Which only show a box with a headshell sans cartridge
Oops that's a bit of a mistake. Good job eBay almost always sides with the buyer.Quote:
Originally Posted by willbewill
Was going to try and contact BHF before the train crash but it’s too late, only 3 mins to go… :popcorn:
Built by a former Labour Prime Minster in his spare time, probably.
https://www.googleadservices.com/pag...BAgIEBU&adurl=
Put that in your pipe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Interesting. If I'm reading it right, they're not Wilson but DIY and he's selling the cabs and just some of the drivers, and if you want everything he's selling it's £130 not £100.
Still might be an interesting project but collection only from right out in the bushes.
Lazy use of AI descriptions is enough to put me off a seller.
Eg this description of Led Zep II makes it sound like Luis Oliveira ("Chihuahua!")
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276834494...Bk9SR-a-2ayWZQ
I don't know, who's ever listened to The Lemon Song and not wanted to do the cha-cha?