Originally Posted by
Vince
Yep that's what I read in Hi-Fi News, I think. There is a call to reduce carbon footprint by out lawing big heavy class A and valve amps. FFS, I have a big Musical Fidelity AMS 35I, pure class A and the oven, toaster and kettle draw more juice. I tried it out with a mains block that had a display of the power it was drawing. Oh and my old plasma tv as well. There has got to someone in charge who has a half grasp of common sense. I'm totally law abiding and they want to make me have a license for a gun that is below 12ft lbs. I know it is within power as Bagnall and Kirkwood in Newcastle serviced it for me and set it up to within allowance. Then the powers to be want me to get shot of my amp.....no probs.....cough up th £6000 it originally cost and the upgrades on top. Yeah no chance. We just keep getting kicked in the teeth over things that are blown all out of proportion, and we, the British, just accept it. Please for the sake of my sanity, find someone in charge with the tiniest bit of sense.
So true Vince, but I'll tell you one thing - even though I consider myself a responsible airgun owner, if the power consumption police try to take away my SET amp or my Panasonic plasma, they'll get a .22 pellet up their arse, with a perfectly legal 11.6ft lbs behind it. Whenever the incompetent shower of shits that are our successive governments have an issue to deal with, they always take the path of least resistance (us). If they're so concerned with reducing energy consumption and emissions, maybe they should give up their big Jags and Audis and turn up in Fiat 500s instead.
We constantly hear that the police and courts are getting tough on knife crime, with zero-tolerance. But whenever I see on TV some scrote found in possession of a "bladed weapon", the consequences are almost always a caution, a small fine, or even "released without charge" ffs. They should concentrate their energies on getting this right, and let us nice people get on with our lives.
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
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