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Hi Letsav... My speakers have been the same for over 20 years. I won a pair of Rogers Studio 3 from Hi Fi World Magazine around 1995 ish. They are a small infinite baffle design, based on the classic BBC LS3-5/A, which was originally intended as a near field studio monitor. I run them with Rogers AB3 'Auxiliary Bass Units', which Andy Whittle (Rogers' designer) kindly made for me. So, what they amount to is a small floorstanding speaker.. but a very high quality one. They don't do 'seismic' bass, but they go respectably deep, and they really score on stereo imaging, very fast respons

Sorry mate but that is meaningless. 25 watts is their power handling capability.. which implies that you'd kill them if you forced them to handle much more for very long. But it says nothing about volume/loudness. And in any case, most of the time most of us are listening to way below 25 watts amp power. When looking at a speaker, it's generally stated as 'x'dB for 1watt at (I think) 1.83 volts. So what it is describing is sensitivity. Some speakers which are very sensitive, will go very loud for very few watts input.. others may need a lot more power behind them to go loud.

That's beneath you Brew. and also inaccurate As an engineer, you will know that materials count and in this case they seem to be using HDF. It's consistent and stable, as well as being better than the crud usually used for kitchen cabinets. And you also neglect to mention the final finish.. But whatever.. the real work is in designing the cabinet to suit the drive units and crossover, to make an enclosure which will achieve the sort of response required for the design objectives. There's not much difference between designing a speaker and designing a car. You start from the ba

OK, I asked on Pinkfishmedia and these are the replies so far: https://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/nottingham-analogue.236615/#post-3878099 Col

Yes, I visited Tom a couple of times in the 90s and also chatted to him at shows. He was a very quiet and unassuming chap who often used to say. "all we are trying to do is create a little bit of music".. or words to that effect. I too am not sure what happened to his 'brand', but I'll make enquiries and report back.

Maybe move this to the Politics thread?

You are only now convinced?

TD 150s are well regarded, but not as well as the TD 124s.. which are closer to the Garrard 301/401 tradition and used for broadcat work. I have an SME 3009 on a player I built from an old Lenco B55. I use it for playing 78s. A good Garrard 301/401, or a Thorens TD 124, with a good arm and cartridge, will still 'whup' many modern players. I sold an 'new old stock' Shure V15 III stylus for almost £100 on Ebay a while back. I got about £7O for a new unused V15 Cartridge. That said, I presently use a Dynavector 17D3 moving coil cartridge which retails aroun

I'm certain they knew how to cure it. They didn't want to and the market didn't demand it. Even Rolls Royce models of that period could rot. Now, Mrs Col is driving an 02 Reg Fiat Punto ELX. That's 18 years old. It's had a bit of welding underneath for MOT purposes but nothing else. 18 YEARS OLD!!!! AND A FIAT!!!!. I had Fiats for years and rot was never a problem. My 04 Civic 2.0 litre 'S' has no appreciable rust anywhere. 16 years old. 70k miles. No rust. They can do it when they want to.

I see that there are only about 8 Simca 1100s still registered. Hardly surprising, as they rotted almost faster than they were made.. eventually falling off their wheels. They could be picked up cheaply though and I had several. The front brakes had a fixed caliper with twin pistons, which provided amazing braking for the time and none of the problems often apparent with sticky floating calipers in single cylinder designs. They were the first ever 5 door, front wheel drive, transverse engined hatchback, with fully reclining seats. Introduced around 1967 I think. This made them a

That's the Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck. It's very nice and it's essentially hand made, though I've never been moved to buy one... I've maybe not heard it in the right context. A thing of beauty. It's pretty innovative, in having a solid cast Iron platter, a 'unipivot' arm of Tom's own manufacture and a 'permanent stall' motor so that you start or stop the rotartion by hand. It's the cheapest of Tom's designs and comes in at £1500, which compares very favourably with players in a similar league, such as the Michell Gyrodec, the entry level Linn LP 12 (which can go up to about £18k in it's

...And another thing!!! On my favourite Hi Fi site, quite a few people are using the very nice record players made by the late Tom Fletcher at his workshop in Underwood. Tom's company was called 'Nottingham Analogue'.. and it's really annoying how many people insist on shortening this to Notts Analogue, when we all know Notts is the abbreviation for Nottinghamshire and the accepted abbreviation for Nottingham is Nottm. Naturally, I correct them all. Not that I'm picky you understand...

So, I'm amazed how you've all taken so long before you've gotten absolutely apoplectic about this. The 'so' thing has been going of for years and seems to be an almost direct replacement for the [Aussie Mode] 'rising inflection'? [/Aussie Mode] (Yes.. that is a question mark, not an exclamation.. ) Lizzie, the footy mob always amuse me and it's not just players.. the managers and the pundits are all guilty too. Just a few from recent years... -Suddenly they are now obliged to preface any mention of any club with 'football' so that they now have to say 'the football

My day was OK. As part of a garage clearout.. I took a pile of scrap metal down to the local 'Metal Recycling Centre'. (Formerly known as 'Jonesy's Scrapper'.) on the outskirts of 'Sentellins'. A couple of old car alternators, some used copper piping, radiator valves etc. An old car battery, several old aluminium cooking pans and some very classy brass bathroom taps and shower fittings my brother chucked out.. hardly used, after a burst pipe almost destroyed his house. £37.50. Not bad for a few minutes bagging up and a ten minute drive. I just cannot throw non ferrous stuff in

Sorry to hear of your troubles Brew. I think I'd be seeking a second opinion too.

I'm very sorry to read this. R.I.P.

Back in the early 60s there useter be a Pork Butcher's in Boowul Market that had tripe, trotters, chitterlings and stuff in the window. If I recall correctly, it was the one at the bottom left of Pilkington Street. I seem to recall that they had the offall type stuff in the window to the left of the door, and a new fangled spit roasting thing full of chickens to the right of the door. Or am I merging two memories into one? Eitherway, I'd been brought up on the reality that beef was cheaper than chicken and never even bothered enquiring about the price of a spit roasted chicken.

I spent some time in Scotland whilst training to be a Careers Adviser. Mostly in Aberdeen, Peterhead, Elgin and Buckie. Most of the food I got in assorted B&B's was basic, but excellent. I really wasn't much sold on 'Whhhyyte Pewdeeeng' though. Almost every office I was in had somewhere.. a postcard with a recipe for a 'Scotch Pie'. The picture made it look very solid, glossy and distinctly unappetising. The ingredients listed were flour, hot water, lard, and gristle. Just shows the Scots don't take themelves too seriously. There were many types of bread based things which were

I reckon that in theory, you could sing, whilst playing the Uilleann, or the Northumbrian pipes, or ny other 'bellows' pipes. This because you pump air into the bag using the bellows and then play the tune on the Chanter.. without having to blow into anything. However.. if you are playing a full set of Uilleann pipes, you are already pretty busy without singing. You are simultaneously pumping with your right elbow, regulating the pressure in the bag with your left arm, playing the melody on the chanter with both hands and playing the drones either singly or in chords, by using you

It can be a bit of a 'black art', depending partly on what website or forum you want to post them to, but.. Keep NS open and open another Tab for Youtube. Go to Youtube and find the video you want.. then, while it's playing, copy the address from the address bar at the top of the screen and paste it into this site. For reasons I haven't figured out, it will sometimes appear as just a 'link' in your post, which people will need to click on to view. Sometimes it seems the address will immediately display 'in line' i.e. the start screen of the video will load

As far as I know.. I'm ok for those thanks...

Versions of the Bagpipes are known all over the World and are not a particularly Scottish thing. I believe the Romans had a version.. and many others exist worldwide. I heard some in Crete. many years ago.. called 'Haskamandouras' I think. I can enjoy listening to the Scottish pipes but they are a bit fierce.. and also since they are restricted to what I believe is called a 'pentatonic scale' (I'm no musician..) they lack subtlety and melodic range for me. I do like the Irish 'Uellean' pipes (spelling?) and have a good friend. John Murphy.. who plays them very well. H

Phew!!!

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In other news... Nigel versus the Remainers... Nigel : They’ve bled us white the bastards -they’ve taken every thing we had! And not just from us! From our Fathers and From our Fathers’ Fathers "And from our Fathers Fathers’ Fathers - and from our Fathers Fathers Fathers’ Fathers" - yeah alright Boris - don’t labour the point… And what have they ever given us in return?… “Tariff-free trade with Japan and Canada?” What? “Tariff-free trade within the Japan and Canada?” Oh yeah yeah. They did give us that. That’s true yeah. “Improvements i