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Toppsy wrote:
Nah! It's called port fine tuning

My speakers sound better after a few glasses of Port, I'm sure of it.

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I had thought of doing this by getting PB Plywood to cut them from spare 18mm ply and then use my thicknesser to trim them down. But I decided this was a lot of work and wood shavings. So in the end my local timberyard had an offcut of 3/8" birch ply (actual 9mm but, hey whats 1/2 mm between f...

Nextdoors' washing line post looks like a big brown lolly stick.

Speaker looks good Colin. I remember those fiddly port spacers on the little Fonkens. I asked the friendly joiners next door to run them through their thicknesser to get 'em bang on 9.5mm.


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pre65 wrote:[

Nah-that was £1.99 wasted ! Bits of it were OK but it's not for me.

Try again Phil, its one of them growers. Really.

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Dunno about the Mahlers but wrt CB deffo make a cuppa and have a sarnie (or soup) first then do nothing but listen. Tweak the volume a smidge higher than normal, don't jump as CB starts off loud but peaks and troughs throughout.

I think it brill.

Enjoy!

DTB

Just to fill in, it was a 5/6 (+ two dancers) piece, and several laptops. Good gig, not entirely in musical terms I guess (not that it ever was), but still some of the old fire, but with a bit more of a hint of political comment as well as the SF. I think they were much better for having Tim Blake ...

shane wrote:

Dave the bass wrote: Theres no 'Z' in Niche.

No youm dozy b.....r, 'e means bizycle. 'e must've bin down Debm on 'is 'ols.

Shane, your keyboard is broken...it's gone west (country). See what I did there Ed?

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You really don't want to get me going on that ... do you!?! There is no higher invention of man's than the bicycle except the notion of God. Nietsche (there's a z in there somewhere, I think.) Theres no 'Z' in Niche. Der....Pfffttt....'thicky' :lol: DTB PS. I had to look up the word 'Erudition' :oo...

I don't know why I waste my time and talent and erudition on you lot! :wink: remember, I don't have a sense of humour! eck-eck-eck-eck-eck Good job you didn't mention Wagners ring cycle then ! :wink: :wink: :lol: Thats scraping the bottom bracket of the barrel (see what I did there Ed?) :) DTB

(There is a hint too, though maybe I'm fooling myself, that they sound better than ornery rects.) :D No! No fooling, I'm sure they do, 83'd 2A3 amp sounds more airy and alive than GZ34'd same amp. LW 6B4G is about to get 83'd-up then possibly 866'd and 3B28'd. LW is to be turned into the test-bed I...

pre65 wrote:

andrew Ivimey wrote:These three pieces go to make up a cycle.

Is that one of them fold up ones you can put in the boot ?

^^^^^^^^ No dear, thats a Brompton. (or a broken bike if its in 3 pieces).

Thats appallingly good Phil Well done.

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andrew Ivimey wrote:Oh dear, I've been sniffing the MV - you are right, of course!

Sniffing Motor Vessels is dangerous. Stop that now

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