I'm guessing you are a big fan of 'Jay Leno's Garage'? I love that show.
I'm guessing you are a big fan of 'Jay Leno's Garage'? I love that show.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
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I'm Gary.
My 18 year old 140k mile Saab passed its MOT today with just a minor advisory
I feel like a proud father lol
Marantz CD63 KI Signature
Project Debut II
Pioneer A656 Reference
Epos M5s
Atacama Stands
Maplin speaker cable cos I can't hear a difference
Various interconnects as above
Turntable
Toshiba SR-370/Mission 774/Van Damme cable with MS Starline plugs/Ortofon Quintet Black
CD
Cambridge CXC transport/modified Musical Fidelity X-DAC/modified Musical Fidelity X-10 V3 tube buffer
Network Player
Cambridge NP30
Amplifier
Denon HA-500 head amp/Nakamichi CA-5E pre-amp/Chinese passive RVC/Proton AA-1150 DMC power amp
Speakers
Mordaunt Short Signifer on original factory stands
Cables
Mogami with Rean Neutrik plugs/NVA LS5
Headphones
Sennheiser HD600/Sennheiser HD650/Koss Pro4 AA
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
Forget the past, it's gone. And don't worry about the future, it doesn't exist. There is only NOW.
KICKSTARTER: ENABLING SCAMMERS SINCE 2009
Loved my old saab. Drivers car
Regards,
Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
The last couple of generations of Saabs were Vauxhalls under the skin anyway.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Alex
Main System: Digital: HP Laptop/M2Tech Hiface/Logitech Media Server/FLAC; Marantz SA7001 KI Signature SACD Player and other digital stuff into Gatorised Beresford Caiman DAC Vinyl: Garrard 401/SME 3009 SII Improved/Sumiko HS/Nagaoka MP-30
Amplifier: Rega Brio R. Speakers: Spendor SP1. Cables: Various, mainly Mark Grant. Please see "about me" for the rest of my cr@p! Gallery
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing Aristotle
Not really. As Macca says they kept on building Saabs, and went bust. They used as little GM input as they could get away with. There's a famous story about how some hotshot from GM came to be an internal consultant on what was going wrong in Trolhattan, and got in a Saab as a hire car at the Airport. First thing he spotted was that it had a non-GM sat nav - Saab's design team had rejected the GM kit as not fit for purpose and gone off and ordered their own, short run, custom system at great expense, as in the old days. Mutiply that across multiple sub systems and it's pretty obvious what went wrong for them.
I had 10 Saabs in a row over a period of 25 years, the last being a 2009 9-5 Aero Anniversary Wagon. (Probably my favourite was a 9000 Griffin 2.3T, which on Millennium night - pre speed cameras everywhere and with cops having a night off after the world didn't end the night before, and the rest of the country nursing a hangover - took me from Glasgow to Weston Super Mare, south of Bristol, in four hours and 10 minutes including a petrol stop on the M5 at Dursley).
I would happily have bought the all-new 9-5 that came after my last one, but it didn't last long enough. Already there are shortage of parts even for cars like my old one that were quite old models, never mind the short-lived later model. But I would love to drive Saab again, I tried Lexus, have a Jag XF at the minute but neither have the originality or design flair of the old Saabs. (I'd certainly never buy anything from Germany).
I did visit Trolhattan, as a young journalist, in fact I used to write a motoring column for a Sunday newspaper back in another lifetime. (The 80s). Indeed that was what persuaded me to start driving Saabs in the first place and stop driving the Citroens or Alfa Romeos I had been mucking about with. Most car companies sent nubile young marketing ladies to entertain us over dinner. Saab sent their engineers who spent the evening drawing diagrams of anti lock braking systems on the back of napkins. Very refreshing. I'll never forget getting taken out the following morning on a forest rally stage by a very tall but rather bent and arthritic old bloke, who had to fold himself into the car that was being launched (facelift 9000 turbo if I recall correctly), and who then drove with utter calmness at speeds that felt more like we were in a jet fighter. His name: Eric Carlsson.
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