looking on ebay mainly and auto trader

I’ve got a Civic, great car and very practical. You’ll find one for that sort of money.

I was actually looking at those this morning would you recommend the 2.2 diesel? I hear they are good for 50mpg

was always told get at least an XT/PG980 cassette with PRO2 hubs

Another Orange Soul MK2 here with 120mm Rebas – What a fun bike!

its 67.5 degrees

Although the Marantz CD6004 is a fantastic player (i have one) i think CD player days are numbered for the masses.

Money better spent on a standalone DAC

If you have a DAC it opens up options (hi res audio, DVD, digi box, games console)

Airport Express £80

Optical Cable £5

Spend £215 on a DAC

Cambridge DACmagic will be perfect!!!

What advantage is there to a DAC as opposed to a headphone jack plug connected to an Amp for listening to spotify?

Because you are relying on the quality of the DAC in your source.

if you are streaming spotify to your iPhone then using the 3.5mm jack to your amp,the iPhone will be utilising its DAC, its not a bad DAC but you can improve on it.

Dac is considerably better quality than all but very expensive sound cards, I got a USB one a few years ago and am very pleased with it

it depends? DACs cost from £40 to £4000

Hitman,

Where do you listen to your music?

is your amp/speakers near your PC?

is £300 the top of budget?

What will be your main source?

A dac isn’t going to help spotify, too compressed.

Your point being? the OP has not mentioned spottily

Spotify premium streams at 320kps, which on an iPod/basic pc speakers is acceptable – the OP kit wont expose the shortcomings of spotify at 320kps.

When you start putting compressed audio through better amps/speakers then yes it reveals its limitations.

Also a DAC gives you more options,

Isn’t the problem with streaming that you need some sort of wired connection, as wireless is too temperamental and quality suffers?

NO!

never had a problem streaming to AE then optical out into my Rega DAC

i really think you should get a DAC, rip all your music in alac/flac then stream it dont bother with a CD player

i have an iMac streaming lossless to an AE then into a Rega DAC and it sounds fantastic!

speaker cables……pah!!!

my hifi (Rega Brio r/Rega Apollo r/Rega RP1 TT/Rega RS3/Rega DAC) probably 2.5k rrp, i use Chord Silver Carnivall at £5m it sounds fantastic….. i have no desire for anything costing more…waste of money if you ask me!

This is a wind up right?

oh god found the Chameleons gig on youtube that I went to in 1985 ! Going slightly mad with nostalgia…

What a great & severely under rated Manchester band from the 80s

Yep migration assistant clones your old hardrive, or lets you pick what you want to migrate!
Imagine doing that with pcs

Yes I meant 320 Kbps

To be fair most people would just encode straight to 320Kbps FLAC.

30kbps is a lossy format

FLAC is a lossless format

They are not the same thing

In the context of iPods and mini hifis you probably can’t tell the difference in sq
However once you starting using separate quality hifi the lossy formats reveal there inferiority to lossless

i wouldnt bother,i have sonos and sqeezebox,all over complicated and overpriced

Are you kidding? The Squeezebox touch in the hifi wold as been the bargin of the century….. Try finding another streamer for the same price that’s streams up to 24/96 khz? The squeezebox is sonically better than Sonos.

If you don’t want your Squeezebox I will ate it off you

Mine is pancetta, onions garlic half pork half beef mince, tiin toms, sun dried toms, red wine, cumin, chilli powder, chilli flakes, red chilli and coffee. The last half hour of cooking add chick and kidney beans

paying their bills late

Also they are probably the only retailer who can have stuff on the shelves, sell it, then benefit from the revenue in sales in there bank before they pay the supplier….. So in effect a loan with interest.

I work in the tissue manufacture industry, we make product for boots, Morrison, sainsbury……. However not Tesco as it was not profitable to make own label product for them as they wanted to drive the cost so we would sell at cost.

Also if he doesn’t turn up in court they will impose an interim ban and then there will be a warrant out for his arrest there is no way out and he will have to serve his ban. Eg if the interim ban last 6 months, and he finally appears in court he will still have to serve the ban minus whatever the interim ban is. I know this from personal experience when I was very young & stupid!

He needs to seek Legal advice, surely his solicitor will be up to speed on this? Seems a bit strange coming on stw to ask

morcheeba – Big Calm
hadn’t heard it for donkeys, every track’s good.
Seconded, amazing album.

Thirded!

Takes me back to the summer of 98 when I met my wife!

Listened to Dark side of the Moon tonight……still grips me after 25 years

Nanos and 5:10 freeriders……excellent combo

Binners you ave too much time on your hands!

I’m not desperate no, it’s not hard in ths day and age to meet women for sex!

The lady in question persued me and I went out on the first date purely out of curiosity to find out about her, she is quite an interesting person and yes I do actually fancy her! Anyway dinner date is on at her house!

I better take some vino just in case she thinks I’m tight!

Haha she has invited me round to her house for dinner!

3 dates is the norm I thought! Obviously some ladies are different!

have you had any pay back from the investment yet?

No I am a gent, and things haven’t progressed to the bedroom yet! I am attracted to her physically and I’m only average looking myself but she says I’m fit in appearance sense not the fitness sense haha

If she was smoking hot would you be complaining?

In theory no!

Does she work? Do you?

Re read post i said she’s a teacher and yes I work other wise I wouldn’t be spending £200 on 3 dates!

Say your next date is going to be fish and chips at your place, as you’re skint until pay day, that should test her!

Seems like a plan, I’m gonna leave it for a few days and see what happens

I’ve alway been in relationships/a marriage where everything is more of less equal! She has no kids a resonably paid job in teaching,I have to support my little girl and fund my biking too!

Yeah I could of bought some nice upgrades for my Soul!

My dad was in the Torpedo room on HMS conqueror when they fired and sank the Belgrano! However some kids in my school there dads were on the Coventry when it was hit and got killed, yes we lived in rowner, gosport where all the navy families lived, my dad s ok though but a lot are not!

That bike is begging to be ridden!

I’ve just nearly finished building my new Cotic Soul in orange cant wait to get out on it!

Well my frame (medium) is at LBS having headset/fork fitted, I’m on nights tonight and tomo night so hopefully pick it up Saturday afternoon to finish the build Saturday night ready for its maiden voyage Sunday morning, muchly excited,

Medium Orange frame
Reba RLT 120mm w 15mm maxle & poploc
Cane creek 10 headset
Thomosn stem 70mm
Thomson inline post
Fiziik Gobi
Stylo double cranks
X9 shifter
X9 rear mech
Pc971
XT cassette
SLX front mech
Elixir cr 185/160 rotors
Hope hoops with flows
Maxxis high rollers 60a
Syncros gain bars

I reckon 25lb then great!!!!

I’m not to fussed about the weight to be honest, but I was just interested in what it would be!

Keeping the flows to put on my Soul to go bashing in the Dark Peak!