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Yeah! But there's not an IKEA near me.

Was looking for a crocodile shaped non slip bath mat to stop my kid stacking it in the bath, and for extra Clarissa vibes. Amazon threw up this. -

tyre choices

Minions FTW

I've got some rolls of film that went out of date in the 60s if that counts. And we had a 2nd hand bottle of fish sauce that went out of date in 2010 until recently.

Right! Yeah I've got a vintage technics setup myself, with all the VU meters! The ohm meter is an interesting bit of kit.

Nice, gotta love a VU. What's in your wooden box?

He is, and it's nice to get someone's opinion on HiFi gear that -

• doesn't listen to jazz
  
• talks about the music they like
  
• reviews affordable gear
  

He's gonna have to change his name sound to Shouty Audio Man.

It does have a screen it's just not there. Just running Tidal, iTunes and SoundCloud. I've only really got the mini after my MacBook gave up the ghost and I needed something to run an old version of Photoshop on. Does sound better than the NAD CD player I had though.

Finally got set up in the new gaff.

Thankfully didn't have to endure any wind chimes. Was a reel to reel recording when I was there. Bjork, yeah there's certainly some depth to her work, and Mark Bell was a great producer.

I do like the DIY aspect, especially amps, but the amount of modifying of a Technics turntable is hardly worth it.

Those speaker kits very expensive considering you have to build the cabinet yourself, and the JBL drivers they use aren't that expensive.

I went to this yesterday. It's huge and the sound is huge, and I love the DIY element, I'm not convinced it sounds as good as it looks though (there was a lot of room treatment in there), but obviously it can only sound as good as the recording.

Could have done with a programme and timed slots, so there wasn't 1/100 chance of listening to a genre other than jazz.

Weird that Technics have totally different design of motor in the 1200G.

If they’re active they'll go input > digital crossover > possibly signal processing > amplifier per speaker > speaker. If not they'll be analogue the whole way. They do both active and powered speakers, but their website isn't the best, easiest way to tell is if they've got speaker cable terminals on the back if they do they're powered if they don't they're active.

Someone emerged from the back of the washing machine ...

you don’t have to go down the hifi rabbit hole which is best avoided if you’re indifferent to it anyhow.

Bloody is when it comes to speakers.

Edit - just had a look at Edifier and those ones are powered rather than active but you don't have to go far into the range to get active ones, and the active ones are going down to 52hz which is good for a pair of £150 speakers.

If I were putting them on a desk I'd go for the near field monitor option with a half decent cable from your Mac.

If you put a cheap Bluetooth receiver in the mix it'll sound cheap. Bluetooth isn't great anyway in terms of quality, airplay is better for sure, and then a streamer will be better again.

Depends on if that's a criteria for you. There's plenty of options in the second hand market for similar money that are better looking with the transformer in the chassis. I will caveat this though - I've got a Fosi phono pre amp, and despite its looks and it's outboard power supply, it does sound great for £45.

A fosi amp

Is the power supply bigger than the amp?

I dunno about Fosi et al, I just don't like the way they look, and all of their products come in a different sized chassis, with awful anodising, and a terrible name. It's like they're a rebrand away from greatness.

Cex might be your cheapest place for an airport. I've got a Mac Mini that has all my music on it, and connecting directly into the amp sounds better than over air play, and ripped CDs sound better than playing them on the NAD cd player I had.

In such a small room you might want to be looking at getting some near field monitors and probably an active pair would be good as they should give you more bass and clarity (around the crossover frequency). Edifier are supposed to be good value for money.

They're alright for a tenner (I might have one if you want it?), but if it's got a headphone socket use that.

The Technics 1300 (automatic) 1400 (semi automatic) 1500 (manual) are certainly more for home and less industrial than a 1200. They've got the same platter and tone arm and have pitch control in the speed selectors.

From the other Japanese brands Toshiba, Hitachi and Pioneer all made some very nice, high quality turntables in the late 70s early 80s.

Sony made some weird stuff, and took a huge gamble on any new technology they pioneered, and their version of quartz lock and linear tracking in the Biotracer turntables is pretty out there.

Anything with quartz lock will probably not have pitch control unless it's designed for DJs.

The No sound (or the likes) are all in the warehouse clearance on eBay with 15% off with the voucher if you fancy something fairly cheap with valves. They sound better than the built in phono stage on my amp.

I've had a Project one go before :(

It's normally/always etched into the run off. Presumably so that the sides can be identified without a label.

I think Behringer do one for like £15, at least then if it goes you've got the warranty.