Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Macca]

Need a cat to deal with those meeces.

[Alex_UK]

Why so many?

Your guess is as good as mine! I imagine some don’t work some I’ve lost the dongle for, others were probably spare from kids who wanted better ones. I will go through them and recycle the duds.

[Lawrence001]

That's 119 days of listening - assuming you don't sleep

You hear about those Japanese gamers who play for so long they die. I wonder if there's ever been an audiophile who died as they couldn't stop listening.

[Pigmy Pony]

You hear about those Japanese gamers who play for so long they die. I wonder if there's ever been an audiophile who died as they couldn't stop listening.

Don't know about that, but when I hear Coldplay I lose the will to live.

[Alex_UK]

Well it has finally finished - 3,249 CDs. Slightly less than I thought, I had better get shopping! Found some cracking albums I had forgotten about.

[Macca]

Mate called me says 'getting a new TV tomorrow will you come over and hook it up?'

No problem. Says will give me a call about 1200 when he's got it.

That comes and goes so thought he must have changed his mind, had lunch sat down to listen to some music for first time in a week.

Two songs in to first album he calls me says 'I've got it, come round.'

Go round there. Screw the little feet in, no problem. Then go behind the stand to hook it up. My god, you've never seen a rat's nest like it. Even the most slovenly rat would balk at it. Spent about an hour untangling cables and tracing them back to their origin. Some weren't attached to anything.

I could have just bodged it but thought it might as well be done properly which it now is. Was almost dark by the time I got home again.

[Barry]

The cabling behind my audio system is pretty jumbled as there are nine items which are in use and need to be conected together, eight of which need mains power. Fortunately you can't see any of it, nor of the cabling which runs under the floor to the monoblock amplifiers and speakers, both of which need mains power from sockets deliberately installed adjacent to them.

I have a 'thing' about cables running around the room: they look unsightly.

[Macca]

You can have lots of cables and still have them not tangled - Any A/V system's going to be an issue in that regard but there's no need to have them resemble a ball of twine which is what my pal's looked like. Now they at least all run separately and those that were doing nothing except acting as potential RFI pick-ups are gone.

My main system is very neat with the power cables down one side and the signal cables over on the other. Easy to do when you have just one source and the DAC is inside the pre-amp.

[Macca]

My grandfather and his ship have made it onto Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Aruba

Torpedoed by U Boat in San Nicholas harbour. Typical shabby Nazi trick.

[Barry]

What was the name of his ship and did your grandfather survive the attack?