Craig Sawyers

Dead easy if you make it from two pieces. Make the join a feature with a row of really nice countersunk brass screws. Make it from two contrasting woods. Or, if you want to hone your traditional skills, contrasting woods dovetailed together. Or a finger joint. You also need tough woods given this thing is going to get walked on and scuffed. So for contrasting tough wearing woods that won't warp - hornbeam for the flat bit and iroko for the vertical bit. Nicely contrasting too,

RIP Barbara Windsor. Probably not that well known in the US, but in the UK famous for being in all the Carry On movies, and long time member of the cast of a popular soap East Enders. Aged 83 from Alzheimers. She continued acting for three years after diagnosis. Quite a character; in her 20's she had affairs with the East End gangsters the Krays.

RIP David Cornwell (John le Carré). Superb novelist over the decades. Aged 89, so not too bad an innings.

I can just about understand how mains power and line level cables can impact sound quality through management of RF ingress. But digital cables? Provided they are fed and loaded by the characteristic impedance of the cable, job done. There is some subtlety to the "fed and loaded", but that is outside the scope of a half way decent $15 cable. Incidentally, the way to get around the "fed and loaded" problem is to use long cables (~10-15 feet). In that way any termination reflections come back during the flat top of the waveform, and not during an edge, where it will impact jitter. But such simple pragmatism does not sell $5k digital cables.

It is a Chord product. They must have bought, or licensed, the copyright to use the EE logo on one of their designs. Which is not a design as such - it is a $30 8-port network switch with a different clock (perhaps) in a custom case. What is the term? A fool and their gold are easily parted?

If you live in Birmingham! Ha ha ha!! Brilliant.

Blimey - 20! That is impressive Ours is either 17 or 18, and eats like a horse. Deaf as a post now, lost a couple of teeth, and too old to get out of the garden any more - she can't leap onto the fence. And she doesn't groom so well now, but thinks I am the cat god when I get the comb out! But she does all the usual cat things - feed me, cuddle me, let me out, let me in, and sleep for 18 hours a day.

Hope you had a superb day, Todd!

They have to be B&W speakers - the pod on the top with the kevlar midrange started off in the 801 back in 1980. I used to lust after those so badly it almost hurt. Forty years ago now, and they are still drop dead gorgeous. And I'd still like a pair - just because...

RIP David Prowse. I had no idea he was the Green Cross Code guy - thanks for that Grahame!

This to VPI's post on Tuesday: You need to watch where you use purpleheart. If it is exposed to bright sunlight the surface oxidizes to a rather dull browny-purple. But freshly cut it is a spectacular wood.

The moving magnet cartridge shown (the Elys-2) is pretty quirky - it does not have a removable stylus. It is similar to a moving coil in that regard - when the stylus wears you return it to Rega for rebuild or exchange. https://www.rega.co.uk/products/elys-2

Bloody hell Jose - I had no idea you were going through all this. As Tice says - fingers firmly crossed.

I have a Garrard 401. Stylus drag doesn't slow that sucker down. Oh - and a Thorens TD150II, and that is a pretty weak force unit. But I'm using that with a Shure V15IV with Jico stylus. Since that thing runs at 0.75g tracking, it is just fine. That feeds, via a phono stage, a BH original, with all the unobtainium silicon, and a pair of SR007. That is one of my wife-is-asleep headphone systems. Don't ask...

Have a great one!

I've just checked into this thread again - I can hardly type for laughing! OMG the thread moved on - that was in reply to Tice's comment on the last page on Nov 9th!! Back to the current posts. So sad that Maradonna has gone. Such a flawed genius in the same way that George Best was. Best drank himself to death, and Diego Maradonna had the same demons.

Ugh. What a hideous product. Also I don't know about the FCC mark, but the CE mark is fake - it does not conform with the very precise requirements of the mark geometry. The not so far from the truth joke was that CE from a Chinese product was not a CE mark at all - it stands for China Export.

The stunning Mae West. Born 1893 and died forty years ago today

The Reks nuke incident aside - we want photos!

The stunning Hedy Lamar, born Nov 9th 1914. Actress, beauty, and inventor (of spread spectrum communication).

I wish we had a thumbs up option. "Like" is too weak to attach to that Pie diatribe. Brilliant as usual, and makes the point that even dictatorships are remaining silent regarding the orange menace's defeat. And on behalf of the rest of the non-dictatorial world - hoo fucking ray! Bye bye to Trump and his miserable cohort of acolytes, and welcome to someone who is actually presidential.

First film I took my wife-to-be aged 18 was Zardoz, RIP Sean Connery.

I use the later (current version) black bodied Zu Denon DL103, and can confirm its excellence. I use the later (current version) black bodied Zu Denon DL103, and can confirm its excellence. Repeated sentence, sentence repeated.....

Quite a good interview with Tom Walker, the real guy behind Jonathan Pie. He actually trained as an actor, but realized that the best he could hope for was third centurion with three lines in a Shakespeare play. So inventing Pie was a really good thing for him. Although his rants seem spontaneous, he writes them, learns them and delivers them as an actor.