Location: Forest of Dean
Posts: 643
I'm Gary.
Tonight's tip (revisited): don't live or work in a city.
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
Anyone like this ?
https://www.google.com/search?q=copp...nly9BWFVUT1TM:
I love it , really cool car
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Not my sort of motor Al. The Americans take a nice old classic and butcher the hell out of it in the name of customisation.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Location: Forest of Dean
Posts: 643
I'm Gary.
I appreciate the work that's gone into it but it's not to my taste
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
Location: Forest of Dean
Posts: 643
I'm Gary.
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
Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
It was a complete basket case not fit for the scrap yard , A amazing amout of fabrication , new chassis made all new running gear , custom eveything inc paint and interior , air bag suspension , 10" cut out of the front wings and one off copper inner wheel arches , Totaly amazing car , The owner cried when he saw it
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Location: Moved to frozen north, beyond Inverness
Posts: 2,602
I'm Dave.
OK - I'll try again. If you continue to drive petrol or diesel cars you are still "on a grid" - just a different sort of one. It relies on petrol stations, and fleets of fuel tankers driving round to top those up. It also requires import of fuel - usually from overseas, though it may be possible to obtain fuel by fracking - if one is prepared to accept the problems that causes. Currently we have that kind of infrastructure throughout most of the country, though there are parts where it's possible to go perhaps 50 miles without coming across an open petrol station, and sometimes on Sundays it's very difficult to get fuel.
Electric cars are now starting to get a range of 150 miles or more. In fact some petrol cars effectively don't have much more than that. We recently had a visit from friends who turned up in a splendid Morgan car, but it doesn't have a big petrol tank, and has poor fuel consumption. I was surprised when we suggested taking a small detour to get cheaper petrol that this idea was turned down - correctly if one analyses this more carefully. Basically, a car with poor petrol consumption will use more petrol taking a small diversion, and that completely wipes out any benefit (say 10p per litre) of being able to fill up more cheaply.
To put things in a slightly different perspective, heating homes is more damaging than driving regarding the environment. One can quite easily understand this if one's house is heated by oil. My car uses perhaps 1100 litres of fuel per year (20 gallons per 1000 miles - about 90 litres per 1000, for 12000 miles, so 1080 litre - round up to 1100 litres. I suspect that many houses heated by oil use considerably more than this. If the fuel used is gas, then one is less aware of this, and probably pay scant attention to the bills. Of course, heating houses by electricity is very expensive - and really not a good comparison - it really shouldn't be an option, unless there is really no alternative, though note that it does depend on how the electricity is generated. Some forms of electricity generation are less bad than others.
I understand the issues re range - for pure electric cars - but I've already pointed out that this can be a problem even for a vehicle running on liquid fuel.
Plug in hybrid cars overcome some of the problems, as they can run on liquid fuel as well as electricity. The downside of these is that they are more complex than pure electric cars. Having to carry around a petrol or diesel engine as well as a battery pack increases the weight considerably, and does reduce overall efficiency.
The point about high voltages inside electric cars is significant, but many things we have in modern lives seem potentially very dangerous, but due to (generally) good engineering, we manage to cope.
Petrol head enthusiasts may laugh at electric cars, but some of the fastest cars are in fact powered by electric motors - though it's possible that they'll use a lot more energy if driven hard.
So at the end of all this, what's really the problem? It'll take time to get a majority of cars being hybrids or pure electric, but it should happen, and while it won't "save the planet", it will reduce the rate at which driving damages the environment.
We don't have to measure our own worth by how much we decide to screw up the environment in a pointless and macho way.
Dave
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”
Hunter S Thompson