Duggeh
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To answer the thread question:
Used Arcam CDP and Lambda based Stax.
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Make sure to use a decent tonic and a fresh slice of cucumber with that.
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New tonearm counterweight for heavier cartridges.
New belt.
Record puck.
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Eiffel 65 and Bloom 06.
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The phrases that imply the Cell chip was designed for the PS3 are inaccurate. The PS3 was simply the first product to use the chip, that was not the end aim of the design though.
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We have a pretty crappy router that BT gave us, and I cant even replace it with something better because getting into it to even find out all of the proprietary settings involves installing a software suite that makes the AOL browser look as small footprint, simple and stable as notepad.
I have 4 housemates with 5 or 6 computers between them and they all run wireless and all like to download and file share, besides the router is literally on the hall table outside my bedroom door, so running the cable wasnt difficult.
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I'm really looking forward to setting it up on my network. In the end, my laziness prevailed and SB3 became the choice over Airport Express.
I ended up having to wire an ethernet cable for mine because FLAC wouldn't stream properly over the wireless. Damn housemates and their stupid laptops.
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Take your own advice guy: http://www.head-case.org/index.php/topic,2669.0.html
Your thread isn't making any ground breaking strides in the "I searched" department. Bitching about Headfi won't make you fit in here.
What about sexual favours?
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Hippitty Burpdai!
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Squeezebox 3.
You'll love the little thing I'm sure. It's just so small and perfectly formed, youll want to stroke it when you get it. Although whispering "precious" would be worrying.
All of the last things I bought (Audio Technica 440MLa cart, Tubular Bells 200gram LP and replacement Ergo AMT headband and foams) arrived today.
Replacing an Ergo headband is NOT an undertaking that is even readily possible, nevermind easy. They simply shouldn't sell people new headbands when its this difficult. The assembly of the headphone itself it fiddly enough but removing the wires that run to the right side from the groove in the band is simply not achievable without destroying them.
So I made a hole in the right side and rewired them to dual entry. They don't tug as much now either. And I have missed having those rear foam pads, left replacing those far too long.
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Good looking headphones ftl.
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12 bottles of Barrs fizzy juices.
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Deus Ex is the single greatest single player gaming experience ever created. It's like playing the lead character in the best science fiction thriller action spy film ever made and all 10 of its awesome sequels. Its absolutely vast, remarkably open ended and really, the plot is the best ever used in any game ever. They were working on a film adaptation for a time but it fell through, itd have been compelte rubbish anyway. The only way to make it work on film would be to get JMS to do a high budget TV series.
Invisible war is best left totally unmentioned. If they are going to do a Deus Ex 3, it should be a ground up remake of the first game, made even bigger, even more open ended and with a little more refinement in the RPG side of the game.
I have not played any game which holds a candle to Deus Ex, and I suspect I never will, its a damn shame that it has aged poorly compared to other games from the period, the graphics were a little aged even at release.
The HDTP project has been stuttering along for years, although there is a partial release available now. The speedrun of the game is done on realistic difficulty in about 40 minutes. Which is absolutely insane.
Now im going to go read about dx3.
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Classic Records 200gram pressing of Tubular Bells.
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Family Fortunes (that jpeg being from the newer celebrity family fortunes).
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ding ding ding.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2006/7/19/1798_2.jpg
Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!
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I cant do it. I cant keep up the lie. I want them and I cant have them. I didnt really buy them.
Im so weak.
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is it that you are that vain and shallow? is it what defines who you are? or some other reason?
mjb
Because this site doesn't have a profile function. Simple as that. I'd have a short and/or drunken sig otherwise.
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Did you ask for a refund because of losing PMs or did he just refund you on his own?
He read my comments here about it.
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I've no PMs from 2007, which was a few hundred. Jude has refunded me my contribution fee.
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I wasnt sure how to take it, off the cuff, dismissive or a casual aside reflecting a real opinion. So I kept the diatribe in check.
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oh, we won the Iraq war, it was the peace afterwards that we lost.
Can you lose something when you didn't have it to start with?
I supported Tonys decision to go with the USA into Iraq, not because I agreed with the pretext, but because it is the correct thing for a citizen to do in the circumstances. There's no debate though that its been a massive balls-up.
It is getting better though. Slowly.
Your absolute favorite albums
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Ah how many to pick? What ones to pick?
I think that the simplest thing to do is pick 5 and not think about it too hard. Its hardly as though this is somehow definitive after all. Best not to take the fun out of it.
1st then:
Mike Oldfield - Amarok.
It?s an album that I just can't seem to sell to people despite the fact that it's arguably the single greatest recording in the history of mankind.
Mike Oldfields big goodbye to Virgin Records (Heavens Open is perhaps best forgotten) is in many ways the sequel to Ommadawn, his third album. That at least is how the album started off. But it evolved far beyond such a *simple* starting point. The records producer, convincing Oldfield that he should stay away from computers, that none of the album should be developed based on samples, and that Oldfield should use his musicianship and imagination to the fullest, playing all of the instruments manually.
The end result is a resplendent journey through a nine-dimensional, multi-faceted universe of sound, on a rollercoaster built out of layer upon layer of music, and at first notice, some much more random noise.
Sounds of Oldfield stamping around the studio, making a cup of tea, using a Hoover, a Margaret Thatcher impersonator to act almost like a master of ceremonies during the peaks of the African passages, ridiculous bursts of rapid guitar and sudden explosions of noise just when you think there?s going to be a quiet passage, the entire album was constructed so that it would be impossible to pull a single from it, indeed, the Whole CD is one, single sixty minute track.
As part of the publicity drive when the album was released Oldfield offered a prize to whoever could find the *Secret Message* hidden in the album (fuck RB [RB=Richard Branson])
This album is such glorious, mad, progressive fart of an album. Its pace, its themes, its tone and its dynamic range jumps all over the place. Unlike albums which are so nose high in this regard (like Captain Beefhearts Trout Mask Replica) though, its not actually cocophonic. Its a myriad of swirling interconnected little worlds and I love it to pieces. Arguably Oldfields REAL magnum opus.
Jean-Michel Jarre - Chronologie
For me, it is not Oxygene or Equinoxe which represents the "true" Jarre sound. Those albums, while the two that all of his other works tend to be judged by, much like Oldfield with Tubular Bells are in my opinion fabulous, but Chronologie is better it runs that cold soaring electronic sound through the mangle into something slightly more intricate and slightly less sterile. He would lose it again with Oxygene 7-13 though.
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
If Amarok is a myriad hybrid of world music themes then A Wizard, A True Star is the rock equivalent. Less frenetic, but just as crazy its a real woven album of the DSOTM kind, songs blur into one another with little destination in transition despite their change in tone. Hugely energetic and fabulously fun and Rundgren did the entire thing himself including the album art.
R. Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers - No Known Cure
A finger snapping, banjo strumming, castanet clicking, accordion squeezing, fiddle fiddling, harmonica wheezing, cymbal rapping, see-you-later-alligatoring journey to a mud shack on stilts in the middle of some Floridian swamp.
That's how No Known Cure hit me, I'd never heard anything quite, like it, in a very loose sense, it was kind of like acoustic Creedence, yet that's a really bad analogy so just ignore it. This is swamp rock I guess and its quite fabulous in its energy.
Good luck finding a copy though.
Hank Shizzoe - Low Budget
This is THE steel guitar album. The sound quality is just astonishing and the music itself could not fail to be loved by anyone with any taste. The closest parallel I can think of is Brothers In Arms. In fact, I've bloody typed enough and I'm going to go listen to this right now.