Nothing In Particular

[IslandPink]

As I received not a lot of helpful comments,

We're always here, when you need that !

[jack]

As I received not a lot of helpful comments,

We're always here, when you need that !

Yeh. Thanks. It's appreciated. Honestly.

[pre65]

As I received not a lot of helpful comments, I decided to get off my backside and solve this by throwing technology at the problem.

I would have replied , but being a dummkopf I had absolutely no ideas to make a sensible suggestion.

[jack]

As I received not a lot of helpful comments, I decided to get off my backside and solve this by throwing technology at the problem.

I would have replied , but being a dummkopf I had absolutely no ideas to make a sensible suggestion.

It's ok. I've learned to manage my expectations...

On the upside, I found a second break (actually a shredding of the wire) about 100mts from the first and now the loop is running again.

The technique worked very well and was quick.

[Ray P]

Now you've got me feeling guilty for posting a jokey response!

[Mike H]

As I received not a lot of helpful comments, I decided to get off my backside and solve this by throwing technology at the problem.

I would have replied , but being a dummkopf I had absolutely no ideas to make a sensible suggestion.

It's ok. I've learned to manage my expectations...

On the upside, I found a second break (actually a shredding of the wire) about 100mts from the first and now the loop is running again.

The technique worked very well and was quick.

As per Phil, but I like your method - proper job

[Mike H]

It's ok. I've learned to manage my expectations...

Lower ..... lower .......



I've tended not posted a lot lately (anywhere!) in case I'm talking rowlocks

[jack]

It's ok. I've learned to manage my expectations...

Lower ..... lower .......



I've tended not posted a lot lately (anywhere!) in case I'm talking rowlocks

It's the same for all of us. Advancing years in tandem with reduced capacity!

TBH, the solution I eventually came up with was staring me in the face and I should have got there immediately, not a couple of days later...

Whatever, the dog is now contrite as it tried to wander off down the drive before getting a stern warning from its collar - very startled, it returned to its bed by the Aga...

Now you've got me feeling guilty for posting a jokey response!

No problem - just responding in kind!

[Ray P]

No problem - just responding in kind!

Yeah I got that...

[Ray P]

I saw one of these for sale in town today;



Might have been tempted but not for £99.

[Mike H]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is it?

[jack]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is it?

It's an A&R Cambridge A60. Normally costs around £100-200 in decent nick, which strangely is what it cost 30 odd years ago.

Nice integrated amp

A&R Cambridge = Amplification & Recording Cambridge is now known as Arcam...

[Richard Higgins]

Back in early 1984 I was thinking about getting a new amp..
The mags tended to recommend the A&R60 as the £200 amp.
I was living in Abingdon and had seen an article in HiFi Answers about Peter West and Donnington Audio in Newbury who stocked A&R.
Following a visit I left a cheque for £200 with Peter and left with an Onix OA20 and AR60 for home trial.
There was no contest, the AR60 just sounded weak and uninvolved in comparison to the Onix.
I went back to DA two weeks later and picked up Onix AO20 no 1008.
For several years it was used a lot daily, we did not have a tv.
Relays failed after 18 months, changed by Onix foc, duff batch of parts. And a couple of years ago one of the plastic spacers on a speaker socket dis-integrated.
Only failures in almost 40 years.

I sold it to Phil Thompson of Newbury Audio when I bought Linn amps, he used it in his home system and when he was closing down bought it back off him. Gets occasional use with a pair of Lintons in our garden.

Cheers
Richard

[pre65]

Nice story Richard. Just shows how useful dealers were.

Yonks ago I went to Chew and Osbourne in Saffron Walden to buy my first CD player, a Denon DCD (something or other), and came away with a Yamaha CDX810, which I still have in my office system.

[andrew Ivimey]

Newbury eh! That's exactly where I am now. Stunning rain and wind has gone. Sunny fir a soggy walk.

Back in the day I was making my own ( wharfedale rsdd) speakers and el84 Amp. Then Clive Sinclair came along . I don't remember Donnington Audio at all - couldn't have afforded nothing anyway!

It was only in my 17th year I was doing shift work for a summer job and drove down to Christchurch for a Quad 2, 22 and over to Maidenhead for a pair of esl57s ( £50 well spent).