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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
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: Moved to frozen north, beyond Inverness
Posts: 2,602
I'm Dave.
Back here in the waiting room - 3.40am. I was hoping i'd not be back here for a while, but ....
Hey, ho!
Dave
Hope all ok Dave
Kraken, Saturn, Emotion, Flying V Rocket, Planets.
Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
I am also signing in , May be out later today so thought it best to charge my electric car to capacity
I have almost forgoten the joys of handling wet diesel fuel pumps
Poncy coffee machine on
Now then what to do next maybe some washing or load the dishwasher , I know how to live
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Location: Moved to frozen north, beyond Inverness
Posts: 2,602
I'm Dave.
Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
Location: Moved to frozen north, beyond Inverness
Posts: 2,602
I'm Dave.
We're gradually switching to electric. A Renault Zoe should arrive soon - though delivery seems to have been set back. We have a charging point.
I ordered a Tesla Model 3 AWD, but I'm slightly p**d off with Tesla so might cancel. It's a nice car, but how nice does it have to be at the price?
We're hoping that cars like these will go at least 200 miles, which is enough for us most days. Have to remember that they have to be able to get back, or to the next charging point. There's an interesting site at https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ which allows route planning to hopefully avoid problems.
Dave
Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
Woo nice a Tesler
You can also use zapmap for charging points , The system / infrastructure will only get better
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Location: Moved to frozen north, beyond Inverness
Posts: 2,602
I'm Dave.
Now tried most of the supposedly best offerings of Electric cars - though not the Leaf. One family member has a Leaf - says it's very good. I met someone a year or so back who had two. One he got cheap, as someone had screwed up the charging and b***d the electrics, so he bought it for £6k. Turns out he's an electrical engineer, so said it didn't cost much to fix - but probably for most of us a "Don't do this at home" job.
If everybody switches to electric cars there won't be enough power to go round - to keep your computers or electric kettles going. [**1]
Plug-in hybrids might be good. The Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid is really nice, and in theory should do a bit over 30 miles on pure electric. Depends on your driving patterns whether they are going to be useful. The Ioniq is quite good too, though I found the Prius easier to drive. As with pure EVs, if most people switch to plug-in hybrids (rather than EVs), there won't be enough electricity to go round.
Otherwise, despite being fossil fuel beasts, regular hybrids might still be the best option for a while - see [**1] above, or even high efficiency petrol or diesel cars, but pollution problems - particularly for city centres - tend to counter against fossil fuels.
I didn't know that there are any Toyota Mirai hydrogen cars in the UK, but I met someone who'd driven one a few days ago. Apparently the NHS uses them in Scotland to deliver between locations (hospitals?) in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and perhaps Glasgow. I guess they have the hydrogen fuel sorted out. Otherwise most of the hydrogen filling stations are in London. Overall hydrogen cars are I believe less efficient than electric ones, but considerably more efficient than gas guzzling fossil fuel burners, and pollution is low with those. Refuelling times should be low - comparible with filling with petrol or diesel.
Apart from the possible dangers (I've mentioned those before - not sure how real they are) it would perhaps be sensible for some manufacturer to develop a hybrid hydrogen+electric plug in car - by which I mean using hydrogen as fuel, with electric power using batteries plus chargers. Such a combination could give long range as well as the kind of performance one gets from pure EV.
Dave