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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    We are perhaps confusing pedanty with politeness. However your daughter's comment does raise the interesting question: which of the two imperatives is more effective? The blunt order, or the appeal to reason and one's better nature?

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    Or even pedantry.

    Where we live now, the appeal to one's better nature would probably be more effective. Where we used to live, the blunt order, backed up with a Rottweiler on a short chain in the front yard, was the way to go.

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    Lol, Joe.....

    Chris, some way cool retro ads there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    It was just a name of an audio magazine. There were plenty of others around in the 70's and '80s:

    Popular Hi-Fi - would you wan't it to be 'Unpopular Hi-Fi'?

    Practical Hi-Fi (and Audio) - 'Impractical Hi-Fi' ?

    Hi-Fi for Pleasure - 'Hi-Fi for Pain and Misery'?

    Hi-Fi Answers - 'Hi-Fi Obfuscation and Confusion'?

    In the '90s there was:

    Audiophile - 'Audiophobe'?

    The Flat Response -'The Flatulant Response'?

    Hi-Fi Review - 'Hi-Fi Refuse'?

    (The last two alternative titles are closer to the mark, for those blatently biased and sycophantic rags).

    Regards
    You have left out Hi-Fi Weekly......

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    Did you write for Hi-fi for Pleasure then, Dave?

    If so, did you get to meet any of the 'foxy chicks' on the covers of the mag?

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by hifi_dave View Post
    You have left out Hi-Fi Weekly......
    He missed more than that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
    He missed more than that
    Gosh you lot are hard to please! OK, the magazines I have read at some time or other are or have been:

    Hi-Fi News & Record Review (now simply Hi-Fi News)
    Gramophone
    Popular Hi-Fi
    Hi-Fi Sound
    Practical Hi-Fi and Audio
    Audiophile
    Hi-Fi Answers
    Hi-Fi Weekly
    Hi-Fi Review
    The Flat Response
    Hi-Fi for Pleasure
    Hi-Fi Choice
    Hi-Fi World
    Hi-Fi +
    Stereo Review
    Stereophile
    The Audio Amateur
    The Absolute Sound.

    Don't ask me to list the pornography mags I've read.

    Regards
    Barry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Gosh you lot are hard to please! OK, the magazines I have read at some time or other are or have been:

    Hi-Fi News & Record Review (now simply Hi-Fi News)
    Gramophone
    Popular Hi-Fi
    Hi-Fi Sound
    Practical Hi-Fi and Audio
    Audiophile
    Hi-Fi Answers
    Hi-Fi Weekly
    Hi-Fi Review
    The Flat Response
    Hi-Fi for Pleasure
    Hi-Fi Choice
    Hi-Fi World
    Hi-Fi +
    Stereo Review
    Stereophile
    The Audio Amateur
    The Absolute Sound.

    Don't ask me to list the pornography mags I've read.

    Regards
    Barry Hunt ! I am shocked

    One that you would read such things......

    and Two that there is anything to read in them


    Regards D S D L
    Regards Neil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post

    Hi-Fi News & Record Review (now simply Hi-Fi News)
    simply Hi-Fi News in the first place
    Last edited by Rare Bird; 26-05-2010 at 23:24.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
    simply Hi-Fi News in the first place
    Different sort of Birds on the cover of that mag.....

    Are the birds on the front cover part of a test disc ?....bird calls....better than trains I suppose


    Regards D S D L
    Regards Neil

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L View Post
    Barry Hunt ! I am shocked

    One that you would read such things......

    and Two that there is anything to read in them


    Regards D S D L
    Oops! Could say that was a Freudian slip, or a pun as photography is another interest of mine and collegues would jokingly refer to the mags as 'Amateur Pornography' or 'Creative Pornography'! A lot of people still confuse nude photography with pornography. It really was a typo - honest!

    At least it proves my posts are read. When I used to write reports at work, I would always include an unusual word or phrase, so as to check that they were read. If people asked "what does ** mean?", I knew they had read the report.

    simply Hi-Fi News in the first place
    I do have one or two copies of the magazine when it was originally 'Hi-Fi News', but my qualification is correct: from becoming 'Hi-Fi News & Record Review', it is now simply called 'Hi-Fi News'.

    Anyway it's time to get back to my reading the latest copy of 'Rubber Weekly'!
    Barry

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