Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Glad you got it sorted out in the end, Barry. However, my advice for everyone right now is to STAY PUT and park their arse at home, unless it's a genuine emergency, until things improve with the Covid situation.
I simply wouldn't entertain foreign travel otherwise right now, under any circumstances.
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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.
Fount Master & Administrator
Location: Essex
Posts: 37,800
I'm openingabottleofwine.
We are going to stay put, but hope to re-book for, say, February next year. The credit note is valid until 31.12.2021.
The dilemma we faced was if flights were still flying, then wanting to re-book might (with some carriers) not be possible. Lockdown here and very strict entrance restrictions at the destination, meant we had very good reasons to justify requesting a credit note. Wanting a refund would have been very difficult to justify and would not have been granted.
We only had a narrow time window to act. Obtaining the visa, whilst straightforward, is time consuming and expensive. To have obtained one in time to travel, and then not to have travelled would have been a waste of money.
Barry
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,562
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Yeah, totally get that. However, glad you're staying put, as it's the most sensible and safest thing to do right now
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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.
Senior Member
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 2,052
I'm guy.
So much for "lockdown" - never seen so many cars going through our village, considerable number with bikes on carriers.
I guess people are taking their exercise in the countryside
LP12, Ittok (black), DV10X5, Art Audio Vinyl 1 phono stage, NVAP50 SA, Art Audio Quintet 15w power amp, NVA LS5 cable, Rega Ela mk1's.
Arcam Alpha 7 CD
Drunken Administrator
Location: Staffordshire, England
Posts: 43,381
I'm Martin.
It was quite a bit quieter here yesterday than usual. Nothing like as quiet as the previous lockdown though.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > Troels Gravesen Faital 3WC-15.
Fount Master & Administrator
Location: Essex
Posts: 37,800
I'm openingabottleofwine.
There appears to be little change here in London, apart from all hospitality services which are closed, as are clothing shops, hairdressers and nail bars. In general the streets are only a little quieter.
Mobile phone and computer shops are open, but all transactions are carried out at the door - there is no going inside. The same with the coffee shops.
Barry
Super Moderator
Location: W Lothian
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I'm Grant.
not been near a shop in 9 monthsOriginally Posted by Barry
not likely to be for another 9 the way its going either
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
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“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.”
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“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!”
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Fount Master & Administrator
Location: Essex
Posts: 37,800
I'm openingabottleofwine.
Well you can shop for almost everything on-line; though I wouldn't buy clothes or shoes that way.
Barry
Moderator & Terminator!
Location: N E Kent
Posts: 51,628
I'm Geoff.
I do and have done so for about fifteen years. Not experienced any real disappointments and I'm quite fussy.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Fount Master & Administrator
Location: Essex
Posts: 37,800
I'm openingabottleofwine.
When I shop I like to see and touch the clothes I buy. Fitting is not a problem, nor is shoe size, but you can't really assess the quality of clothing on-line.
Barry
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